Question from the Internet:

“Is the US in the decadence phase of human civilization?”

Yes, we can say that. The US represents the peak of self-serving, narcissistic, egoistic human development. We have all found our deepest selfish, egoistic dreams in the “American Dream”, we all thrived either to move to America or at least to copy their lifestyle, achievements on ourselves in some way.

But now this dream is turning into a nightmare.

It is not the fault of the Americans, it is nobody’s fault. We have reached the end of the blind, instinctive phase of human development which was…

Question from the Internet:

“What civilization has very similar unusual characteristics and practices of another, but completely disjointed throughout history?”

In truth, human history is a helplessly recurring chain of vicious cycles.

Still, our own civilization — especially its dominant Western version — most closely resembles the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, with their narcissism, self-service, the stubborn, petulant belief in our human superiority above everything — while using “Gods” as entertainment and to justify with “them” everything we do.

And exactly as those earlier civilizations, our own is also self-destructing, as we reached a certain satiation point beyond which…

Question from the Internet:

“Do we need a full lockdown again?”

A full lockdown, a full vaccination of everybody might stop the spread, but it would not give us full protection and it would not solve the pandemic completely, neither would it help with our other global problems.

We need to treat the pandemic as an educational opportunity, to see what really causing our mounting problems, what really threatens our health and survival.

If we learned the lesson of the pandemic — seeing how self-defeating, ineffective we are due to our inherently egocentric, self-justifying, hateful, and exploitative behavior — then…

Question from the Internet:

“What do you love most about existing in the 21st century?”

What I love about the 21st century is that finally, we have reached the most exciting phase of human evolution, when we are going to transition from a previous, present, blind and instinctive, and self-destructive development to a fully conscious, positive path.

Our growing problems, the constantly deepening, unsolvable global crisis, a real threat of collective self-destruction, and our vast historic experience awakens more and more people for asking questions about the meaning, the purpose of human life on one hand, and also helps them…

Question from the Internet:

“How can we have justice?”

We can’t bring justice to the world as long as we try to force our own version of justice on others.

Due to our inherently self-centered, subjective nature, we view everything through our own experiences, pain, suffering, while we can’t really empathize with what others feel, go through.

There are some things that most people would find “just”, “moral”, but even such notions can be strongly influenced by our culture, religion, history, collective and individual experiences.

Sometimes we can find ourselves in unique situations, “standing in the shoes of others” when…

Question from the Internet:

“How possible is it for one person to change the world? Mention a few people who did.”

In order for one person to change the world, first, we would need to understand that the world I perceive is the world I project through my own qualities.

We already know more or less through psychology, quantum physics that the reality we observe depends 100% on the observer. Thus by changing the observer we change the reality the observer sees, experiences.

Thus from the actual observer’s point of view, I can change the world, if I change my…

Question from the Internet:

“If every country wants world peace, why do we still not have it? How long and how much work do you think that would take?”

Wise sages describe this state as “our mouth and heart is not in synchron”, meaning we might be saying nice things, we hear uplifting speeches about peace, unity, and brotherhood, but in our “hearts”, in our desires, we feel very differently.

We are all born with an inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, subjective, and individualistic nature, and knowingly or unknowingly we all succeed, survive at the expense of others.

Our life is…

Question from the Internet:

“Why do we have so much envy in the world today?”

Envy is one of the most natural human characteristics, as our inherently egocentric, subjective, self-justifying nature constantly compares itself to others, constantly thrives to become better, higher, stronger, wealthier than others.

Most of the time this envy is negative and as a result we are happy for the misfortune of others, if we succeed at their expense this gives us the greatest pleasure. And if we can’t succeed, are least we try to make sure that others don’t succeed either.

We can’t suppress, erase envy…