Dear Friends,

I feel our world situation is becoming even more concerning. When I wake in the mornings, my thoughts turn to the uncertainties of these times. After I practice Internal Cultivation, I "let the demon in," which is how I call turning on the internet and checking my emails.

As I receive all that content, I become more and more activated and anxious. And I reflect on three things:

1. Almost all the things that whip my anxiety into a frenzy pour out of screens.

2. While the flow of content has vastly exceeded anyone's ability to keep on top of it all, the reliability of that content has decreased proportionally. We are swimming in an ocean of lies, distortions and misrepresentations. In this ever-worsening storm, we are desperately trying to find a life-preserver of truth to which we can cling.

3. Many people now spend more time looking at what is unreal, in the form of screens, than they do looking at what is real, in the form of living people, the sky, the earth, and nature.

The screens would have us believe that the solution to these problems is to look at more screens, longer and more intensely. That belief only serves the very interests that are creating the confusion and anxiety in the first place.

There is another possibility: go inside, contact the Life Force directly, feel how that Life Force arises continuously from the Mystery, aka the Great Spirit. Allow that knowing to guide us as to what is true and how to move through the maelstrom of this modern world.

I hope that listening to this recording brings you the same calm and clarity I received while making it!

With a wish that all be happy and healthy,

Michael