It’s my first time being in my 40s. So I have no idea whether the world has always felt like this when you reach this age — whether you simply become old enough to see patterns you couldn’t see when you were younger. But it really does feel like something is changing. Rapidly. And what fascinates me is that spiritual traditions from completely different parts of the world have all described periods when humanity reaches some kind of crossroads. Christianity talks about the “last days” — a period marked by deception, moral confusion, division, fear, and people losing their ability to discern what is good. Isaiah says: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” — Isaiah 5:20 And Psalm 35 says: “They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.” — Psalm 35:12 There is this recurring Biblical warning that human beings can become so disconnected from truth that we begin reversing things. Good becomes bad. Bad becomes good. Cruelty gets justified. Compassion gets mocked. And eventually people may participate in things they would once have recognized as wrong because they have been slowly taught to see them differently. That idea isn’t unique to Christianity. Hopi teachings are often described as containing warnings about humanity reaching a crossroads: one path characterized by imbalance, materialism, separation, and destruction, and another requiring human beings to return to right relationship — with one another, with the Earth, and with the sacred. I think I even posted the "Third Shaking Of The Earth" Hopi Prophesy in here before. If you haven't listened to it yet on youtube- it's worth it. But the broader idea of humanity facing the consequences of living out of balance is certainly not foreign to Indigenous spiritual traditions. Then there is Paramahansa Yogananda. His interpretation of the Second Coming of Christ is fascinating because he did not describe it as Jesus physically returning to Earth like many Christians explain it.