The World is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including Human civilization. In a philosophical context, the World is the whole of the physical Universe. In a theological context, the World is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The 'end of the World' refers to scenarios of the ...
Man versus Earth / Mensch gegen Erde / Homem contra Terra / Hombre contra Tierra
Fun fact: planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old, mankind about 140,000 years old. Let me put that in perspective: If you condense the Earth's lifespan into 24 hours, that's one full day, then we have been here on this planet for ... drumroll please ... three seconds. Three seconds, and look what we've ...
Create Peace on Earth / Schaffe Frieden auf Erden / Crie Paz na Terra / Crea Paz en la Tierra
New Age is a compilation of metaphysical, eastern influenced thought systems. These thought systems unite theology, nature, and philosophy. This movement comprises countless theologies that often center on religious tolerance and moral diversity. The main phrases that reveal the focal point of New Age thought are feel-good, moral relativism, and pluralism. The phrase New Age refers to the ...
Transformation of the Mind / Transformation des Geistes / Transformação da Mente / Transformación de la Mente
What we are trying to, is to see if we can not radically bring about a transformation of the mind. Not accept things as they are but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it, give your heart and your mind and everything that you have to find out a way of living differently. But ...
Awakening / Erwachen / Despertar / Despertar
What I think an awakening really involves, is a re-examination of our common sense. We've got all sorts of ideas built into us, which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its commonest phrases. 'Face the facts.' As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. 'Face the ...
What’s Possible / Was möglich Ist / O que é Possível / Lo que es posible
One day we will wake up to find that the energy that powers the alarm clock came from the breeze through the trees the night before. And we will go to work that morning riding the rays of the sun. It will light our cities and power our businesses. It will warm our homes and cool ...
Safe Water / Sicheres Wasser / Água Segura / Agua Segura
400 million children struggling to survive without safe water. Children pay the highest price for an unhygienic World where over 1 billion people struggle without safe water and a staggering one in three lacks even a basic toilet. Ordinary diarrhoea sickens more children under five than any other illness, killing 4,500 children every day. (the second highest ...
Environmental Conservation / Umweltschutz / Conservação Ambiental / Conservación del medio Ambiente
When wildfire, insects or disease impact forests it can have a number of far reaching negative effects. Fortunately, reforestation helps. The timely establishment of seedlings helps jumpstart forest recovery. Reforestation helps halt soil erosion, and ensure that forests can filter and supply the water that we all depend on. Reforestation improves forest health. Planting the right species, ...
Consumerism and the Environment / Konsum und die Umwelt / Consumismo e Meio Ambiente / Consumismo y el medio ambiente
Americans and Western Europeans have had a lock on unsustainable over- consumption for decades. But now developing countries are catching up rapidly, to the disadvantage of the environment, health, and happiness. Approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide now belong to the consumer class. Yhe group of people characterized by diets of highly processed food, desire for bigger houses, more ...
Overpopulation and Democracy / Überbevölkerung und Demokratie / Superpopulação e Democracia / Sobrepoblación y Democracia
Overpopulation is what's driving us crazy. All other problems, toxic waste disposal, epidemic disease, resource extraction, degradation of the environment, collapse of the atmosphere, inability to satisfy third-world aspirations. All of these problems are population problems. And capitalism doesn't want to talk about it because capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, ...
Chaos provides Opportunity / Chaos bietet Gelegenheit / Caos oferece Oportunidade / Chaos ofrece Oportunidad
This is what we are doing, this is what we as a Society are guilty of, a crime that previous generations couldn't even conceive of. You can not trust the dominator style not to go psychotic here at the end, I mean they may have to surround the place and lay seize to it. This is ...
Espiritual Experience / Spirituelle Erfahrung / Experiência Espiritual / Experiencia Espiritual
In order to become enlightened you have to be willing to lose your mind because enlightenment is something that transcends the mind. The mind can not comprehend enlightenment experiences. In order to get there you have to let go of the mind. Enlightened people are kind of loopy, and their experiences are outside normal mental function. ...
Technique of Consciousness Change / Technik der Bewusstseinsänderung / Técnica de mudança de Consciência / Técnica de cambio de Conciencia
The possibility of changing Consciousness was discovered in the orient 2,500 years ago at least, probably it is older than that but techniques were discovered to quiet the mind, pacify the mind, remove emotional compulsions, and these were organised into the science of yoga. Yoga is the science of the East, as science is the ...
Dream within a Dream / Traum in einem Traum / Sonho dentro de um Sonho / Sueño dentro de un Sueño
'A Dream Within a Dream' is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into 2 stanzas. The poem questions the way one can distinguish between reality and fantasy, asking, 'Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?' - Take this kiss upon the brow! And, ...
Fuck Society / Scheiss Gesellschaft / Foda-se a Sociedade / Sociedad de Mierda
Society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction. Society may be illustrated as an economic, social, industrial or cultural infrastructure, made up of, yet distinct from, a varied collection of individuals. In this regard Society can mean the objective relationships people have with the material world and with other people, rather than 'other people' beyond the ...
The root of Suffering / Die Wurzel des Leidens / A raiz do Sofrimento / La raíz del Sufrimiento
According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction. Due to this pursuit, the mind ...
Life is Suffering / Leben bedeutet Leiden / Vida e Sofrendo / Vida es Sufrimiento
First, one understands that he causes much of his own suffering needlessly. -Second, one looks for the reasons for this in his own life. -To look is to have confidence in one’s own ability to end the suffering. -Finally, a wish arises to find a path to peace. For all beings desire happiness, all wish ...
Erase those barriers Of Indifference / Beseitige die Barrieren der Gleichgültigkeit / Apague as barreiras da Indiferença / Borrar esas barreras de la Indiferencia
I am afraid of living in a World filled with violence. But mostly I am afraid of allowing my fear to turn me away from knowing the needs of others. The culture of comfort makes us insensitive to the cries of other people, makes us live in bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer an ...
Chaos and Order / Chaos und Ordnung / Caos e Ordem / Caos y Orden
Taoists believe that the World is always an interplay between chaos and order and that if you live your life properly you stand with one foot in order and one foot in chaos. Because if you are only in order, nothing that is interesting ever happens to you. Nothing is anything but a repeat of all ...
Higher state of Consciousness / Höherer Bewusstseinszustand / Maior estado de Consciência / Mayor estado de Conciencia
We live most of our life through three states of Consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the waking state of Consciousness, you experience the World through the five senses. You seek elevation and joy from these senses. If any one of the senses is missing, the entire dimension of that sense is lost. One who can not hear is ...