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We are all similar. In this video Andrew explains this and how all of us are connected.

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Rise up. Rise Above.

We've all been through our share of heartaches, some unbearable and unfathomable...but we've all experienced them, might be currently, and will in future. And it's easy to become paralyzed by them, often times falling into a "Woe is me mentality" as I like to call it. We lose hope, become stagnant in our growth, and fall into a dark place. However, we have the power to rise up and rise above these heartaches. It's a matter of perspective beginning with our state of mind. We have to realize that nothing positive or productive is coming forth from allowing these heartaches to consume us. And if we allow ourselves to fall back, come away from the emotions...we'll be able to learn, mainly about self. Also, if we allow ourselves to become encased in negativity and darkness, we leave no room for light to be shed upon us. Missing out on opportunities of help and healing. I was physically beat and mentally tormented for 9 of the 16 years I was with my ex husband. I had every opportunity to be bitter, angry, and be mad at every man that crossed my path. BUT I CHOSE not to. It wasn't easy, but I did it. I didn't want to become an angry person. I knew there was a greater purpose at hand. I learned just how truly strong I was/am. I learned of my capacity to forgive and truly move forward. I learned of my ability to look beyond one's actions and see them for who they truly are. I learned how to respect and love myself. I became an example for my daughters and son. And little did I know, the eyes of others were on me as well and without knowing it...my story became one of inspiration for them. The choice to rise up and rise above begins with you...for you...and eventually ends up being for others as well. You are a light. Allow it to shine bright through that darkness, permeating every inch of your atmosphere.

- @Kajal_love03 

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Why Anime Will Change Your Perspective

People may think that animes are just Japanese cartoons. But, for all you out there who watch them you know they are way more awesome than that! Animes offer an entirely different way to view friendships, rivalries, and even the world as we know it with, sword-fighting action, super strength, spirit guns, alchemic transmutations and of course deep storylines to boot. A couple shows we feel are a good way to get introduced to everything anime can do are Yu Yu Hakusho and Fullmetal Alchemist.

    In Yu Yu Hakusho, Yusuke Urameshi dies saving a child from being hit by a car. He goes on to be revived and become a Spirit Detective. Once you reach the end of this anime you begin to see the illusions surrounding our orthodox lives. If you were to strip humanity of its conditioned normality, and reveal the true malice that drove people's actions you would see what monsters people actually are. It is this fact that caused the original spirit detective, Shinobu Sensui, to want to eliminate humans completely. In our society people are money-driven, discriminatory and fueled by hate. The end always justifies the means and acts of kindness are ever more scarce. Its hard to argue with, Shinobu when it seems like there's no hope of improvement. But it always helps to remember that there are people like Yusuke out there. Beacons of light who fight to give humanity a chance to prove those like Shinobu wrong.

     Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime that emphasizes equivalent exchange, and the belief that all is present within the one and vice versa. This is a principle that defines our very existence, yet so few people embrace it. The universe is connected and its that simple. It is undeniable, and proven by the simple truth that everything is made of the same atoms. On a quest to regain their bodies, the Elric brothers, protagonists of Fullmetal Alchemist, discover this to be true. While gaining power and experience the Elrics come to realize that the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts. If the pieces that come together to form the whole are corrupt the same will be true for the whole. People can either be positive or negative forces on the world we live in. Fullmetal Alchemist shows how the goodness in people can really drive the whole towards positivity and enlightenment or how evil forces can drive the whole to chaos and calamity.

     So if you don't get it by now, try reading this again then find the nearest tv/smart phone/computer and WATCH ANIME. Even if you don't choose these there is guaranteed to be one that interests you. It will be more then likely to unlock your mind to a way of thinking you wouldn't have reached otherwise.

- Kyl3wis & Choppa

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R3al Recipe: Homemade Coconut Milk

R3al Recipe: Homemade Coconut Milk

Photography and recipe produced by: Gonzalo Safadi

If you've ever been to a tropical region chances are we’ve shared the pleasurable experience of drinking coconut water out of a soft jelly coconut. Green coconuts as you might recall drinking out of, are younger coconuts and contain more water and softer meat. As the coconut matures, it undergoes it’s own drying process, the meat inside becomes thick and firm with less amount of water. To make our coconut milk we will be using a dry, mature coconut. In a typical diverse supermarket, each dry coconut cost a dollar each! That’s 32 oz. of coconut milk for one dollar!

I can only guarantee that the most fulfilling part will be making this beverage from scratch. Cracking and removing the coconut meat will take time and is not to be rushed, do not get frustrated as it will distract you and may lead to injury. Instead enjoy every second of it, have fun and become aware that your energy will translate into your food.

One of the most important things to me is our perception of our body and our intentions towards it. With anything that we do in life, it is the intention behind it that directly affects us. We cannot just let anything enter in and out of our temple, we must respect our bodies and not bombard it with food that is only desired by the mind, but instead with food that will nourish our soul. You will no longer have to revert back to store bought coconut milk, as you will see the two don’t even compare! Nothing is better than the r3al thing. You are real, your body is real, real food can only be made by your hands. I ask you to take the time and use your hands for your own well-being. It has been said that all great things take time, ehem, (coconut milk).

Prep Time: 10-15 minutes

Servings: 2 cups or 16 oz. of milk

Ingredients:

½ a shell of coconut meat from dry coconut

½ tbsp. Maca Powder

2-3 pinches of pink Himalayan salt (to preference)

2 cups distilled water

5-6 cubes of ice

Cheese cloth for straining (optional)

** To sweeten your coconut milk you have several options. For this recipe you may use 1 tbsp. of either date sugar or agave syrup. Another great option is adding 1 baby banana.

Directions:

You’ll begin by splitting one dry coconut, you may use; a hatchet, meat beater, or a machete to crack open the coconut. Be aware that there is precious fresh coconut water inside the coconut and you want to strategically crack the coco to reduce spillage!

A good whack should give you 2 halve of the coco. Using the point of the chef’s knife drill a hole in the middle of the meat. (see photo above) To easily remove the meat from the outer shell of the coconut cut triangles derived from the center point.

Slide the knife under the outlined triangles and use it as a lever to pop the meat off of the shell. This should come off rather easier; remember to always point the knife away from your body. If it is not popping off easy make sure your outlined triangles cuts are deep enough to reach down to the shell through the thick meat.

Once you’ve removed all of the meat from its shell, it pretty delicious from here on. Mix all ingredients into a high speed blender or nutri bullet. (If you’d like to remove the pulp you’re your milk you will need a cheese cloth for straining)

Simply pour the milk through the cheese cloth into your glass, once you’ve got a good amount of pulp piled up, squeeeeeeeeze! Repeat until all the milk is strained; take the time to acknowledge what you have just created, a delicious glass of Coconut milk. Enjoy Family =)

Notes:

To get the most water with minimal spillage, don’t go crazy whacking the coco. Instead pick at the top of the coco, picking at the top point to cut open a hole big enough to let the water flow. You will develop this technique as you go through more coco secos (dry coconuts).

You can make this into a fulfilling meal by leaving the pulp and drinking the milk with a straw for an easier flow. (Drinking the milk without a straw won’t be as pleasing as you’ll end up with a mouthful of pulp and no milk)

Technically, this recipe makes 2 cups of milk, but I consider it one serving, 16 ounces of coconut milk just isn’t enough to share! Consider doubling the recipe for you and the first person who came to mind while reading this.

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The Biological Effects of Music on the Brain

Our brain "includes several distinct dopamine systems, one of which plays a major role in reward-motivated behavior.”. This is quite fascinating that the availability of this information is present within our society, also revealing, the major record labels in the Music Industry are well aware of this. In an article published by The Nuero Organization at McGill University by Anita Kar, states "The team at The Neuro measured dopamine release in response to music that elicited “chills”, changes in skin conductance, heart rate, breathing, and temperature that were correlated with pleasurability ratings of the music. ‘Chills’ or ‘musical frisson’ is a well established marker of peak emotional responses to music.”

If one was unaware, you probably aren't now because these scientists have proven that music has a biological effect on our physical bodies. Kar also adds "PET and fMRI brain imaging techniques, revealed that dopamine release is greater for pleasurable versus neutral music, and that levels of release are correlated with the extent of emotional arousal and pleasurability ratings. Dopamine is known to play a pivotal role in establishing and maintaining behavior that is biologically necessary.” We are literally, becoming stimulated at a deeply internal level, from every song that's brought us joy in our lives, resulting in the development emotional and behavioral patterns to embed into our psyche. This may come to no surprise to some of us who’ve re-lived a heart break when listening to a mid 2000’s r&b song. Also consider, us humans are developing, subconsciously, a rewarding/pleasurable sensation to certain songs which causes us to phase lock at least momentarily into a specific frequency.   Dr. Robert Zatorre, neuroscientist at The Neuro. "These findings provide neurochemical evidence that intense emotional responses to music involve ancient reward circuitry in the brain,”….“To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that an abstract reward such as music can lead to dopamine release.” It should be noted that music, has been a highly influential factor in every single culture regardless of geographic location. Our mental consent has been imprinted into the collective psyche as a human family for thousands of years. If this is the first abstract reward to lead to a dopamine release (in contemporary studies), other objects have the potential to do so as well. "The study also showed that two different brain circuits are involved in anticipation and experience, respectively: one linking to cognitive and motor systems, and hence prediction, the other to the limbic system, and hence the emotional part of the brain."   If this study proves anything beside what I’ve eluded to above, at bare minimum, music has a profound effect on our brain as well as the rest of our physical body(at least) . I implore you to further research the effects of music which is major influence within our lives daily!

By Andrew Millan

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In this video Aes Vissle shares his personal experience with not being okay and encourages others to express their feelings. 

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"True Consciousness is Consciousness of self" In this video, Krena explains the Conscious Movement. 

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Knowing and understanding your sign is crucial and beneficial to who you are and what you do. In this video, Krena goes in depth about the different signs and their meanings.

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The Psychological Conditioning Technology Plays with Cloud Storage And This Paradoxical Illusory Reality.

As you’ve probably already noticed the trend over the past few years, Tech companies are urging consumers to place their data on a cloud storage s opposed to a “digital hard-copy” (if that makes to sense) on a hard-drive or flash-drive. The convenience of instant accessibility across multiple devices is quite convincing, considering about 10 years ago, if one had an important file on their home computer there would be no way to access it unless you had your computer. So how does “the cloud” relate to this reality we are all collectively experiencing?

It’s quite simple, I will use a few practical examples to explain my point. Before the creation of digital recordings if one wanted to listen to music, you would have to go typically to a club. After the 1930's that changed and the rise of music labels and record companies began. The invention of commercial digital recording marked a significant shift in experiencing reality, we were presented with a digital rendition of your favorite songs, which at the time were performed on real instruments (not digital sounds i.e. house music).

Recorded Music affected the vicarious psyche of present humanity before Television.

But what does this have to do with the cloud service and technology of today?

Everything, the modern perception of life is circulated around this technology more particularly the internet (at least for millennials) which is an illusion. How is it an illusion you might ask, its illusory because its not physically present, its not made up of subatomic particle binding it together with the frequency of magnetism rather a “replica of our Spiritual Powers” - Sevan Bomar, held together by materials which are physical, paradoxical. The device in which you utilize to experience the internet is quite physical but ask yourself is your reality taking place there or here on Earth? Therefore the internet, entirely, is no more than a vicarious/artificial network and archive for humans currently present in this time, created us as well. The same can be said about this reality in relation to our bodies. Our bodies are similar to the computers/cellphones we use to interact with this reality. This physical reality like the internet is artificial due to our original beings as souls or essences are not physical and our experience here is only one to grand collective of our experiences as seen through our dreams, created by us as-well.

The act of putting our files on some cloud which is just means its stored on another hard-drive elsewhere advocates the paradox, are our files really there or not? When you’re listening to your favorite song, not matter how close the audio sounds or how high quality it is, will be incomparable to actually hearing that artist sing in-person. Therefore its a paradox because, are you listening to the artist’s voice in the song or a digital clone or both? The same thing has happen with the shift of physical currency (paper bills, gold etc) to now plastic credit cards. Yes I know the use of “credit” originated since the establishing of banks, but we are living through a time where we no longer see the physical exchange of currency.

I do not wish to convince you of anything I’ve said in this article, rather motivate you to question it’s validity and find your own truths. Please tap the heart and recommend this so other can see too!

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How to Unplug from the Matrix

Now almost everyone has seen the Matrix trilogy. If you haven't its a series of movies in which freedom fighters detach from the fabricated world most people live in; called the Matrix; and fight in a war against the machines that are oppressing mankind. In our lives today the Matrix is very real. It may not be controlled by machines and full of high-flying action scenes but it is all around us, the fabrication created through indoctrination and deception. Themindunleashed.org offers a few methods to Unplug from this falsehood and here i relay some of them to you.

     One of the first things you can do is question everything. Almost every piece of mainstream information is incomplete or inaccurate. Question everything you learn and everything you know, in this age of information access to the truth is at our fingertips. Not to say that the truth is not shrouded in fallacies and conspiracies of its own, however, this cannot stop you from searching for the genuine truth.

       Another is to remember you're not alone. People everyday are educating themselves to deeper philosophical, spiritual and societal realities. Never think that the knowledge you're seeking and acquiring is in vain. Continuing to gain and share this information is key in creating a reality we desperately need for ourselves and generations to come.

     As truth seekers it is now up to us to spread this knowledge through our networks but we have to be sure not to force it on anyone. Not everyone is awakened yet and once someone feels threatened they will put up walls of defense and turn away from what you're trying to teach. We mustn't forget that we all had to wake up at one point. To belittle those who are still asleep is hypocritical. It is key that we live and act through love, never fear. True power comes from the love we create from within. Darkness is found within as well and to spread light we must illuminate our own darkness to do the same to that around us.

   We can also unplug by actually experiencing and having a glimpse of the world outside the Matrix. We can do this by altering our state of consciousness. That may sound complex but its quite simple. People of all ages alter their consciousness in many ways. From something as small as a child spinning in circles to get dizzy, to individuals taking trips on psychedelics. The most common and most destructive way to alter your consciousness is alcohol but dreaming and meditation are natural ways to alter ones consciousness. Depending on the method you choose, you're alteration could end in a drunk and forgotten night or, it could often times end in a spiritual correspondence with reality and further lead to an embracing of meditation as a lifestyle. Regardless of what you choose or whether its for fun or development, the benefits of reprogramming and unplugging are clear and this is most easily done when in an altered state of consciousness.

    Finally, one of the most important ways to Unplug is to disconnect from the dysfunctional systems. It would be peachy if we could just quit our jobs, pack up our belongings and move away from the propaganda, but obviously we can't. The law of C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) is still very prevalent. What we can do is be aware of the corruption and misguidance in the systems and do what we can to not be a part of it. By no means is every system and advancement a bad thing, we have music, philosophy and modern medicine among many other things humanity has gotten right. Some systems however, once understood, should be avoided as best as possible. We must recognize that mainstream media is fueled by deception and we will not find the truth we're looking for there. Politics are run by money and corruption and that democracy is not how it was intended to be in our time. Our air and water are being polluted with toxins and chemicals, and our good is being genetically altered. This chaos and pandemonium is a result of those in power who have taken control of the systems. However, this power is only theirs because the people allow it. Once we stop condoning this and speak out against it as a whole, we can begin healing. This can only happen through gaining true knowledge of the truth, always seeking to further your knowledge and helping other on their path to awakening.

- Kyl3wis

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"Your future is right now" In this video Krena speaks of the importance of writing your story for the future ahead which is present and now