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An international group of prominent scientists has signed  The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness  in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But will this make us stop treating these animals in totally inhumane ways? S EXPAND While it might not sound like much for scientists to declare that many nonhuman animals possess conscious states, it's the open acknowledgement that's the big news here. The body of scientific evidence is increasingly showing that most animals are conscious in the same way that we are, and it's no longer something we can ignore. What's also very interesting about the declaration is the group's acknowledgement that consciousness can emerge in those animals that are very much unlike humans, including those that evolved along different evolutionary tracks, namely birds and some cephalopod...

By:  True Activist. One the most widely appreciated forms of entertainment is undoubtedly the realm of film and television. Pretty well all of us have seen a number of films and TV shows that have made us either laugh, cry, cheer or even at times leave us contemplating why it was ever made.  An element that is not that common in film is to find bits of truth or consciousness, and that’s why we have put together a list of some of the films that could offer us a bit more than simple entertainment. We created a Top 10 list of movies with a message of truth or consciousness.  These movies were selected by our Facebook community in a  survey  we recently published.  There are  a lot of movies  with a message of truth and consciousness however, we selected only the ones that were voted for. 1.  V For Vendetta image – www.imdb.com Shows some of the corruption in the various levels of government, and how we are kept hidden from the truth. Ultimately ...

The human body is even more impressive and magnificent than you can imagine.  While we may sometimes look at it and see how weak and fragile it is, we also need to realize the mind blowing wonders we all hold inside ourselves.  When our body works, we do not feel, or even notice it is doing anything special, however, it is.  As we go about our daily lives like nothing is happening, the body is working, using power, and healing.   Here are 7 mind blowing facts about your body.   1. Your brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10 watt light bulb   The human brain uses about 200 kilocalories per day, which equates to approximately 10 watts of power. For comparison's sake, that's about 10 percent of the power that it takes to run a 100-watt light bulb. So the cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn't too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you're sleeping.  2. Ev...

By: Arjun Walia , Collective Evolution North East of Hawaii, the ocean currents form a giant whirl pool of debris from around the Pacific, the scientific name is called the North Pacific Gyre. It’s one of the largest ecosystems on Earth, comprising of millions of square kilometres. Today it’s better known as “The Great Garbage Patch,” an area the size of Queensland, Australia where there is approximately one million tonnes of plastic spread  throughout the ocean. Drag a net in any area of this part of the ocean and you will pick up toxic, discarded plastic. Photographer Chris Jordan has documented this phenomenon. I had been studying for quite a while the phenomenon called the Pacific garbage patch. I was looking for a way to visualize it, it was really surreal to land on Midway, seeing that my worst hopes of what I would find there are true. These are all albatross chicks, hatched out of their eggs and the very first meal they got was deadly to them. What happens is, when the eggs...

The Earth was so young 300 million years ago, the first land animals had yet to evolve into dinosaurs, most scientists believe. If that's the case, how do you explain the discovery in Russia of a piece of a gear shift -- a common machine part -- embedded into a hunk of 300-million-year-old coal. Has this artifact been correctly identified? And if so, who could have made this thing? And for what purpose? According to  Komsomolskaya Pravda , a resident of Vladivostok -- near the borders of China and North Korea -- named Dmitry, recently noticed something odd about a hunk of coal he had obtained to heat his home during the winter. A metallic-looking rail or rod was pressed into the coal, prompting Dmitry to contact biologist Valery Brier, in the seaside Primorye region. Initial examination of the strange object led researchers to assert it looked "very much like a toothed metal rail, created artificially. It was like parts [that] are often used in microscopes, various technical a...

This is a clip from the phenomenal  documentary   Samsara , directed by  Ron Fricke .

Popular actors, actresses and music stars have been known to share some inspirational words. They’ve been known to “hint” at certain things and sometimes go all out and say something that puts their career at risk. We’ve seen it with a number of celebrities from Tupac Shakur, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, all the way to Charlie Sheen, Kurt Cobain and more. Some have very courageous hearts and were not afraid to hold anything back, risking media ridicule and even death. Recently, at the 2013 teen choice awards, Ashton Kutcher felt the need to share some inspiration that was clearly burning in his heart. We have to remember that this global shift in consciousness is occurring in everybody, it includes those who have been made to be worshipped and  idolized.  It includes those individuals who have been used to promote a certain life-style, and in programming a mass amount of people through television, movies, and mainstream media. Many people believe these individuals to be part ...

By:  Michael Forrester We are currently in the middle of a peak or solar maximum which has brought us more solar flares, CMEs, and geomagnetic storms. Historically, research has been conducted to link the 11 year cycle of the sun to changes in human behavior and society. A big event is about to happen on the sun which may assist in this process--the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip in just a few months. The sun is a major source of visible light and energy on this planet. It represents all-pervading consciousness which animates all things providing us with what some believe to be unlimited energy. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip. What are the cosmic and personal implications of this? It is not such a unique phenomenon, as it happens every eleven years. Still, every eleven years,  shifts in human consciousness around this period seem to occur like clock work. It happens at the peak of each sol...