Thanks Ilina and Lei, great contributions :wink: When I woke up I could immediately see the distractions and disharmonies in how society has gripped humanity - just as in the video. I launched Openhandweb to speak out about such pressing issues. But I realised one very important thing very early on:

• Meaningful change can only ever happen via a shift in consciousness

People can protest and rant about the system all they like, but no one is really going to embrace the need for higher unity and respect for all life unless their consciousness has shifted into a higher state. I'd say three key realisations need to happen:

1. That we are all connected and one
2. What you do to another you do to yourself
3. The outer world is merely the reflection of the inner

You could attain a degree of intellectual understanding of these three universal truths, but that wouldn't be enough to change things. They have to be realised experientially. From that moment I felt passionately committed to raising consciousness. It's why we developed the meditations and courses. The internet is wonderful. It brings so much into awareness. Yet all too often, it's more an intellectual awareness - that's what I see happening mostly on facebook for example and it's generally pretty shallow. We have to let such ideas inspire us to go deeper inwards and pull on the threads of deep felt consciousness. Only then will a person - and the world - truly change.