You are an explorer and you represent our species.

And the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea because our world is endangered

by the absence of good ideas.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Those are the words of Terrence McKenna.

And today we are going to talk a little bit about how you can face crisis,

how you can navigate crisis in your life.

I'm going to give you one more food for thought from Eckhart Tolley.

He said, when faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems and individual life form or species, will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its

condition through an evolutionary leap. So those are some wise words. And essentially, if you study crisis,

I think it's the Chinese form of writing crisis, is two separate lines

that represent chaos and opportunity.

And that's the interesting thing about crisis, is that there is inevitably chaos,

not crayons, although, I mean, there might be crayons in

certain crisis if you have a child, but it's about finding the opportunity in the chaos.

It's about understanding that when chaos happens, when crisis is emerging, there are opportunities for

expansion. There are opportunities for growth. And one of the challenges that you may be experiencing

in our world today with the rise of political unrest, misinformation, inflation, pandemics, shortages, you know, climate change,

the rise of fear, war. It seems to be a never-ending cycle of being immersed in a tremendous

amount of overwhelm and fear and anxiety and not knowing.

And crisis is marked oftentimes, whether it's in your personal life, in your community,

in your relationship with the unknown, that the circle of the unknown, that the amount of unknown, that the amount of

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