About Phillip Schneider

Phillip Schneider is a student and a staff writer for Waking Times.

Warning – Hair Dyes, Straighteners, Relaxers Now Shown to Increase Risk of Breast Cancer

For years, women have been told that cancer is simply a spontaneous occurrence based on predisposed genetic traits which increase or decrease your likelihood of acquiring cancer. The biggest secret of the cancer industry is the fact that in truth, environmental exposure to carcinogenic toxins such as pesticides, heavy metals, radiation, and even certain chemical beauty products are some of the largest contributing factors in acquiring cancer.   Ask any scientist and they will tell you that throughout the many thousands of years that humanity has been on the planet, evolution has produced a species which is aptly able to survive in and adapt to their environment. The secret here is that tens of thousands years of evolution did not create humans who are “naturally” pre-programmed to acquire breast cancer. There is almost always another factor, or varying factors, which contribute to the acquisition of breast cancer and come from outside the realm of of human genetics. For example; smoking, aluminum-based deodorants, having an abortion, and many more environmental factors can contribute to an increased risk of varying forms of cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, about 12% of women develop breast cancer at one point throughout their lifetime, affecting around 220,000 new patients each year and killing about 40,000 (about 400 of which are men). Beauty Product Preservatives Contribute To Cancer Something that is often overlooked is the effect that chemical-based beauty products have on women. As it turns out, many make-ups, hair dyes and personal care products contain preservatives which new research is finding to be more carcinogenic than previously thought. Scientists are discovering that these types of preservatives, known as parabens, can be highly carcinogenic, even in low doses. Although parabens are known to mimic the growth effects of estrogens on breast cancer cells, some consider their effect too weak to cause harm…But this might not be true when parabens are combined with other agents that regulate cell growth. – Dale Leitman, Gynecologist and Molecular Biologist, UC Berkeley Hair Dyes And Breast Cancer   In a report from the journal Carcinogenesis, scientists have found a link between increased breast cancer risk and the use of hair dyes, straighteners, relaxers and conditioning creams which contain cholesterol or placenta. While studying data coming from 4,285 women ages 20-75 (over half of which had breast cancer), they found that there was a significant increase in risk of breast cancer for women who used these hair dyes, straighteners, or relaxers. Something you might find interesting is that the risk factor for African Americans was actually different from Caucasian American women in the study. Black women who used dark shades of hair dyes had a 51% higher risk of cancer and a 72% higher risk of estrogen positive breast cancer. White women on the other hand had a 54% higher risk of estrogen positive breast cancer with the use of dark hair dyes and over 2.5x higher risk of estrogen negative breast cancer at 256% with [...]

2018-01-06T00:47:05-08:00By |

The Rise of Hyper-Realistic Sex Robots and the End of Humanity

It is becoming apparent that technology is beginning to replace humans in the work force. This alone is on the verge of creating some of the most difficult problems that our society has been faced with over the past century, but what might be even more troubling is the rise of hyper-realistic sex robots. As part of a major deal with a factory in China, a Barcelona scientist named Dr. Sergi Santos has just announced the release of a new robot which he describes as “very human” and plans to sell to “every shop” in a global “revolution”. Despite being describe as a “danger to humanity,” he still plans on rolling out his product and now has the resources to do so. He says that the robots will cost about $3,923, or £3,000 each when they reach retail districts and the funds will allow him to produce a minimum of 50 robots per week. What we will have will be completely exact to a human’s behavior and looks… The emergence of each product will bring some changes in people’s lives. Sex Robots A Dangerous Trend Replacing human connectivity with robots clearly presents itself with problems involving reproduction and motivation. A PSA from the show Futurama called “Don’t Date Robots” explains why this may spell out danger for society, and even though it was primarily meant to be a comedy piece, it was years ahead of its time in calling out the rise of sexual automation. A study from Responsible Robotics shows that as humanity’s natural desire for intimacy become fulfilled by robots, we develop a loneliness and an inability to form relationships with other human beings. In addition, researchers are finding that sex robots may make the world a much more dangerous place for women by romanticizing a lack of consent. Another terrifying aspect of artificial intelligence is the capability for unwitting surveillance. Back in April, WikiLeaks revealed that the CIA was using its own software known as “Weeping Angel” to hack into smart TV’s in order to spy on American citizens in their homes. If people were to allow hackable humanoid robotics into their homes, it would create a whole new level of surveillance and manipulation which George Orwell couldn’t even imagine. With the support of Sergi, we want to bring sex robots into human life and allow them to become real family members. – Tian, Partner of Sergi Santos When asking Amazon’s Alexa, an Amazon-created robot which is designed to sit at home and answer any questions, about whether or not she is connected to the CIA, she gives the response that she has no answer to the question – and if asked if she works for the CIA, her response is “No, I work for Amazon.” However, it is widely known that back in 2014 Amazon signed a shady, low-key contract with the CIA for a cloud service which totaled $600 Million. It took a lot of wrangling, but it was easy to see the vision if you laid it all out…We decided we [...]

2022-10-12T14:32:28-07:00By |

What You’re Supposed to Know About Recovering From Diabetes

Diabetes is considered to be one of the most common illnesses in western society. Nearly one in ten Americans have it, making it one of the most serious health epidemics of the 21st century. The pancreas of a type 1 diabetic produces little to no insulin, which the body needs to carry glucose from the bloodstream to the cells of the body. This form is only found in about 5% of the population, and is usually diagnosed in children and teenagers. Typically, a type 1 diabetic will take frequent injections in order to maintain proper insulin levels in the body. A type 2 diabetic has a similar problem. The most common form by far, type 2 diabetes is where the body does not know how to properly process insulin resulting in hyperglycemia, a rising of blood sugar levels beyond what is considered healthy. “At first, your pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. But, over time it isn’t able to keep up and can’t make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at normal levels.” ~American Diabetes Association Some symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, extreme hunger, sudden vision changes, dry skin and more. Dietary Choices Found To Aid In Reversing Diabetes In 2010, Diabetes was the 7th leading cause of death in America, but it doesn’t have to be, and scientists in the fields of natural medicine and nutrition have been working to find a cure. In the documentary “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days,” several patients with diabetes were given the challenge of dropping their regular diets and living a purely raw vegan lifestyle for thirty days. The participants came from all different backgrounds, heritages, and weights. These participants included Michelle, age 36 and obese; Bill, age 58 and had experienced total numbness in his feet due to the diabetes; Austin, age 25 with type 1 diabetes and a drinking problem; Kirt, age 25, who had a blood sugar level of 1200 (normal is about 80-100); Henry, age 58, who took 9 pills a day in addition to insulin; and Pam, age 62, who had diabetes throughout her family. “You can chase them around with medicines and try to get it down, but you’re just chasing your tail. The fundamental thing in treating diabetes is what you put in your mouth.”~Dr. John Picken, Pam’s doctor After only three days, the participants were seeing results. Austin was able to cut his insulin intake in half, while Pam was able to cut hers by one-third. Simultaneously, Kurt, Bill, and Henry’s blood sugar levels had all fallen into the normal range even after dropping all of their medications. On day twelve, Henry had successfully dropped his blood sugar levels by 256 points and relieved himself entirely of his need for medication. However, on day 17 he felt that such a sudden change to his lifestyle was too much and his family took him home. On day thirty, the results were in and the changes [...]

2018-01-02T10:35:26-08:00By |

Being Open-Minded Literally Changes the Way You See the World, Says New Research

According to new research, open-minded people don’t just see the world differently in an ideological sense, but in a new study entitled, ‘Seeing it both ways: Openness to experience and binocular rivalry suppression‘, psychologists have found that being high in openness can actually change visual perception.   What Is Openness? Openness to experience is considered one of the ‘Big Five’ dimensions of personality which umbrella all other descriptive aspects of personality. It is characterized by a proclivity towards creativity and an interest in aesthetics and ideological thinking. Artists, musicians, and writers would all be considered high in trait Openness. The big five also includes Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Extroversion. A common way of remembering them is to spell out OCEAN, or CANOE. If you want to learn more about the big five, a good place to start would be to watch this lecture by Jordan Peterson on the subject. Openness reflects the tendency to actively explore information and engages with complex possibilities. People high in openness may also be more likely to experience creative solutions to the incompatible rivalry stimuli. ~Anna Antinori, Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia How Openness Changes Perception After the team of psychologists gave the participants of the study a personality test, they gave them another test called “binocular rivalry.” This test showed each participant one image in each eye; one being a red patch and the other a green patch. While most people react by reducing focus to only one of the two images, people who were high in trait Openness showed the tendency to view both images as one red-green image, which may suggest a higher level of communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Overall, the results showed that openness is linked to differences in low-level visual perceptual experience. [Source] Openness Decreases “Inattentional Blindness” Another very interesting study from 2015 shows that personality traits can affect a person’s ability to perceive unexpected objects while attention is focused on something else, called “inattentional blindness.” We tested the contribution of a variety of personality traits, yet found only openness to be linked to noticing an unexpected object…susceptibility to inattentional blindness was associated with a low-level of openness to experience and marginally with a low-level of achievement motivation…This suggests that the general tendency to be open to experience extends to the domain of perception. A famous example of this would be the ‘Gorilla Experiment.’ Personality Is Not An Entirely Fixed Attribute A study entitled, Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks?, Shows that although everyone is born with a particular personality type, it is actually possible to expand our range of cognition with any of the big five traits. Think of it as a box-and-whisker graph that can expand in either direction depending on which way you train yourself to be. Conclusion Openness to Experience is considered to be one of the least understood aspects of personality, but research is already showing that it may be more important [...]

2018-01-02T05:22:27-08:00By |

Corporations and Government Engineering a World Where Everyone Will be Microchipped

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Frederich Nietzsche Technology is moving incredibly fast. Although certain advances are doing the world a lot of good, over time, new tools inevitably grant new opportunities for the powerful to garner more control and influence over the people. One of the most insidious means of mass control has not yet been fully implemented, but is being pushed at an ever-increasing rate: human microchipping. Microchips Are Already Here Many people like to pass off the issue of microchipping as a “conspiracy theory,” or something of the like. However, microchipping of humans is already underway as people discover that slavery can be incredibly convenient. Take for example Tim Shank, who allowed a microchip to be surgically implanted between his thumb and forefinger. As a software engineer, he believes that having technology imbedded into his body will be more convenient for him. A piercing and tattoo shop called Skin Art Gallery also performs the procedure, and companies online are beginning to sell kits for microchipping. “This is an NFC chip, so it’s similar to what phones have nowadays.” – Tim Shank Businesses have also begun microchipping their employees. Three Market Square, a Wisconsin-based company which sells microchips as well as vending machines that work with them, came under fire recently for taking technology to an uncomfortably invasive level. Their vision is for the entire population to become microchipped so they will never have to use credit cards or cash again. “Eventually, this technology will become standardized allowing you to use this as your passport, public transit, all purchasing opportunities, etc.” – Todd Westby, Three Square Market CEO In 2015 BBC reported that a Swedish company called Epicenter Stockholm started offering microchips to employees as well. This company reportedly used RDIF chips as opposed to NFC, which are much more easily tracked and hackable. “We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped – the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip.” – Hannes Sjoblad, Chief Disruption Officer at Epicenter Stockholm and Self-proclaimed “Human Augmentation Activist” Implanted Microchips Will Inevitably Result in the Elimination of Cash The inevitable result of transferring all transactions to electronic means is of course the abolition of cash. Without cash, not only are there no longer anonymous purchases, but consequently anyone from the manufacturer of your chip to the bank you use could at any time strip away your ability to make purchases. This is incredibly dangerous because it demands a certain level of conformity and obedience in order to stay alive in the modern world. In July 2017, Visa announced a new initiative called “The Visa Cashless Challenge” which would be used to give up to $500,000 to 50 restaurants that go ‘100% cashless’. Of course, when more people use digital forms of payment, Visa makes more money. If cash was [...]

2022-10-12T14:33:12-07:00By |

When You Follow Your Heart, Love Wins

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin When you hear the words “follow your heart,” what do you think? As it turns out, that expression is a lot more literal than you might conceive. As revealed by the non-profit research organization Institute of Heart Math, the heart is actually a complex intelligence system similar to the brain. In fact, research has concluded that the heart is more powerful at a degree of over 60 times electrically and 5,000 times magnetically than the brain. These findings have led the researchers at HeartMath to a new understanding of the link between heart and intelligence. One of the institutes most influential breakthroughs is the finding that the heart’s electromagnetic field actually changes according to emotional states, which affects the nervous system. “It became clear that negative emotions lead to increased disorder in the heart’s rhythms and in the autonomic nervous system, thereby adversely affecting the rest of the body. In contrast, positive emotions create increased harmony and coherence in heart rhythms and improve balance in the nervous system.” – HeartMath Institute The studies conducted by HeartMath suggest a greater necessity to pay attention to the way your heart feels. The better you feel the more your heart and brain work together in synergy creating greater clarity and balance, which is ideal no matter what you’re doing. “Our research and that of others indicate that the heart is far more than a simple pump. The heart is, in fact, a highly complex, self-organized information processing center with its own functional ‘brain’ that communicates with and influences the cranial brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways.” – HeartMath Institute How Art And Music Affects The Heart Research by the late Masaru Emoto has paved the way to a new understanding of the effect that sound and words have on water and the human body. What may be one of the greatest discoveries of the twenty-first century so far is the realization that water reacts and stores geometric memories in the form of crystal formations which come from both written and spoken words, as well as music and photography. By filling jars with water and subsequently subjecting them to photography, music, words, and prayer, then quickly freezing the water, Emoto was able to create varying crystal patterns which seem to correspond either negatively or positively to each stimuli. Words like love, truth, harmony, wisdom, and peace created beautiful crystal formations while words like “fool” and “disgust,” as well as heavy metal music, created distorted and ugly patterns. Considering that the human heart and brain are made up of around 75% water, it makes sense that the state of that water would make an impact upon the heart and mind, influencing clarity of thought. “Water records information, and while circulating throughout the earth distributes information. This water sent from the universe is full of the [...]

2020-10-05T17:12:52-07:00By |

Artificial Sweeteners Again Linked to Weight Gain, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure

Artificial sweeteners are promoted as a healthy way to cut down on sugar and lose weight. Common sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose are used in “diet” products as a way to market toward those who wish to cut down on calories. However, new research is showing us that these artificial sugar substitutes are not as healthy as big food brands would like us to believe. According to new research from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, they are actually linked to weight gain, not loss.   Consumption of nonnutritive sweeteners was associated with increases in weight and waist circumference, and higher incidence of obesity, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular events. – Meghan B. Azad, PhD The study was conducted by a group of scientists from the University of Manitoba, Canada. After reviewing 37 studies which analyzed more than 400,000 people over a span of ten years, they found that consumption of artificial sweeteners increases the likelihood of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. The research methodology was developed by an information specialist and peer-reviewed to overcome previous pitfalls that studies like this have had in the past. Language restrictions were removed by translation in order to work with a full database of information regarding nonnutritive sweeteners. Studies involving children 12 years or younger were reviewed separately from adults, and a minimum study duration of six months was imposed in order to ensure quality and credibility of the study. Strengths of our systematic review include use of a registered protocol and sensitive, peer-reviewed search strategy. We synthesized evidence from both RCTs [Randomized Controlled Trials] and observational studies, assessed multiple cardiometabolic outcomes and focused on long-term effects. Scientists have been suggesting for years that artificial sweeteners may have an adverse effect on gut microbiota, glucose metabolism, and appetite control. Animal studies have found that frequent exposure to artificial sweeteners can lead to increased food consumption, and in turn, weight gain. This is especially concerning considering in 2008, nearly one in three Americans reported a daily intake of artificial sweeteners and that number has been steadily increasing. The results showed a statistically significant association between consumption of artificial sweeteners and higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, as well as increased weight gain. ~Dr Meghan Azad Big Food Giants Fight Contradicting Information Naturally, big food companies which profit from selling “diet” and “reduced sugar” products are not happy that research is coming out which discredits their products. They claim that because the FDA has approved them it means they are safe. On the contrary, the FDA consistently approves products which end up harming the consumer, such as fluoridated water, glyphosate-based herbicides, and a whole plethora of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. Gavin Partington, a big food advocate and Director of the British Soft Drinks Association, argues against studies which contradict the old view that artificial sweeteners are a healthy way to lower weight, while ignoring the hard data that this study provides. These claims, from the University of Manitoba, run contrary to the substantial body of [...]

2020-09-28T17:19:40-07:00By |

The 9 Types of Intelligence Which Make Us All Human

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein Think about when you were younger and would sit in class just wondering about the world you live in. Maybe you were thinking about the big questions in life. Who are we? Why are we here? Or maybe you were thinking about a book you were reading or a conversation you had with your friends. Maybe you were reflecting on the day or just absorbing the rhythm and melody of your favorite song. Although you might have thought that you were simply daydreaming, this may be a key sign of intelligence. Metaphorically speaking, most people view the intellect as nothing more than a basin, albeit a leaky one, waiting to be filled with the ideas of others. On the contrary, the true intellect is more personal. It is a unique gift that must be self-discovered for an individual to truly flourish. In 1983, a developmental psychologist from Harvard University, Howard Earl Gardner, proposed a theory that will make you question the way you view intelligence, as well as the structure of our education system. He hypothesizes that intellect comes in nine different types, and that each person best expresses their own unique intelligence. However, we all possess each type on some level and can develop our skills in each category. 1. Musical-Rhythmic and Harmonic The first type of intelligence is musicality, or the ability to recognize various tones, rhythms, notes and harmonies. These people tend to be the best musicians and can have a genius ability to compose music, play instruments or sing. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo 2. Visual-Spatial Visual or spatial intelligence is the ability to visualize two or three-dimensional images with the mind’s eye. Those with spatial intelligence tend to be very successful in any area that requires this type of thinking, such as the artist or architect who can plan out works in their head, and then manifest them in three-dimensional reality. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein 3. Verbal-Linguistic The third type is linguistic intelligence. This type does best when dealing with words and language. Writers, story-tellers, poets, and translators all fall into this category. The ability to remember events associated with different dates on a timeline is also common for the linguistic type of intellect. “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” – Tony Robbins 4. Logical-Mathematical   Fourth is the intelligence of reason, also known as logical or mathematical intelligence. This is the intelligence that deals with numbers, facts, and statistics. It is the type of mind that can be spectacular at picking [...]

2018-01-01T19:41:06-08:00By |

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