An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

June 20, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t part of that ...

A woke activist and a religious zealot walk into a… | Mickey Z.

Photo: Mickey Z. (Zuccotti Park, Oct. 2011) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 14, 2018 Humans were compassionate before we invented religion. Hold that thought… While out making rounds for my projec ...

On Occult Literature: A Diversion of Sorts | John Michael Greer

Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a curi ...

No Sympathy for the Devils | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 29, 2018 No Sympathy for the Devils The title of this essay is a play on words from the Rolling Stones most pertinent commentary song "S ...

Unprecedented study identifies 44 genetic risk factors for major depression | King's College London

A global research project has mapped out the genetic basis of major depression, identifying 44 genetic variants which are risk factors for depression, 30 of which are newly discovered. The study, by ...

The Shamanic View of Mental Illness | Jayson Gaddis

Jayson Gaddis -- Uplift April 26, 2018 Looking Through a Different Lens I am reprinting this from an email I received from Malidoma Some, a West African Shaman whom I’ve had the privilege to meet, dr ...

Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 23, 2018 The term "media bias" does not do justice to the western corporate media's relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, ...

What Shall it Profit a Man.... | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust March 30, 2018 As I write this column it is Good Friday, the most somber day in the Christian religion. This is the day that Jesus of Nazare ...

The Last ‘Peace Process’ Warrior: Abbas Hanging by a Thread | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 28, 2018 The "deal of the century" is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjam ...

That time I was blessed by a homeless witch prophet on the NYC subway | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 3, 2018 It was a Sunday in early December 2016 and I was out helping homeless women, as per my project. I noticed a homeless woman on the d ...

What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...