I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of a mind, body, spirit and work.

I don't know if you guys know this, but just a few days ago, human happiness across the planet hit a new low.

In short, never before since scientists started tracking human happiness using this

particular methodology has human happiness ever been that low.

So a lot of people are aching right now.

There's a lot of turmoil in the world.

We're hit with a pandemic,

we're hit with job losses,

we're hit with a looming global recession and all while all of this is happening

we have a total utter lack of leadership. There is no one telling you or me or giving any form of guidance and that's causing even more chaos.

It seems that the leaders we selected today don't seem to know how to do their job.

In a few days, my new book, The Buddha and The Bad-S, comes out.

And I had no freaking idea.

I could not have predicted that this book would be launching into the world at such a

sad time in human history. But I'm glad it's happening because I want to tell you why I wrote that book and to understand I want to read you a quote by Martin Luther King

Which I put at the top of chapter six of this book. This book is dedicated to many revolutionaries, King being one of

them. Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and inameic. Power at its best is love implementing

the demands of justice and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

The problem with the personal growth movement,

the problem with people who claim that I'm spiritual, I'm at peace, I love everyone, is that as Luther said,

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