Today on The Grave Talks, battling darkness, a conversation with Plato Angelicus. A world covered in a shadow of darkness.

This is where we find ourselves today.

The long-term effects of the stress, anxiety, and depression that have touched all of us are coming to the surface like never before.

Along with the negative emotion seem to come hostile forces that feed off of our pain. How do we deal with this? How do we

overcome the negativity and try to come out the other side alive or even possibly stronger?

Today we talk about battling darkness with Archbishop Plato Angelicus. This is a question I wanted to ask someone like yourself for a while.

It seems like we are in a very interesting place in our society right now with how we are treating one another,

where there's always been mean people out there.

There's always been bad people.

There's always been, you know, grinches in the world and such.

But for a long period of time, it seemed that as a society, we could interact with our differences and be okay and be functional.

And we would look out for someone who maybe, you know, if you saw someone

that was having a hard time walking, getting groceries out to their car, you would go and

help them. The analogy I'd make today is someone who may be medically compromised or something of that nature, and they're

relying on other people to do something simple like put on a mask. And it seems, that's just one example

of something where we seem to have a lot of difficulty respecting other people for the greater good of everyone.

There seems to be a lot of negativity, a lot of real viciousness, a lot of screw you.

I don't have to do that because I don't believe this.

And they just don't seem to care about anyone else in the mask area.

But there's so many areas where it seems we don't have

that respect for one another. I'm not, that's just one example. Do you believe, do you feel

there is some sort of heavier layer of evil going on out there in the world? Because these

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