Life can be extremely difficult and confusing. People believe that technology opens us up to new horizons, frees us from drudgery, extends our lives. What I see is more complex and less optimistic. While there have been short term advances, markedly for those in wealthier nations, we have become increasingly untethered from reality, in the sense that we are both destroying the natural world and are also so isolated from it that many can't grasp or even believe what is happening. I believe the result of the unconscious pursuits of power and material prosperity that has divorced us from the natural world is leading toward catastrophe. While I feel it will be important to do what we can to steer things in a better direction, I believe that we will reach points where we are overwhelmed by the situation at hand. Connecting to the subtle energies of the universe and spiritual realms as an ongoing and developing practice I believe can give us strength in these time. I don't put much stock in the idea of "ascension" or some new golden age, although I would certainly welcome it. Instead I see the practice as being a means to anchor us in a deeply destabilizing world that has abandoned the spirits of nature to chase ghosts written in stock market tickers and code.
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