😳 Why Humanity Feels So Empty

How did humanity go from cosmic awareness to this psychological dumpster fire that we're living in today? It wasn't a conspiracy. Personally, I think it was something a lot simpler. It's much darker and it's a lot more human. We just forgot who the hell we were. We got hypnotized by who we thought we

needed to be. So, the moment that humans started building civilizations, we needed to gather a bunch of resources. We need to protect our borders. We need to survive these [music] crazy harsh winters. Fear became a tool. And then, after tens of thousands of years, fear became a habit. And then, fear became a

culture. >> [music] >> And everything that fear touches, obviously, it corrupts. That's why every single ancient text, even the Bible, they warn us about the same exact traps of greed and ego and power and materialism and comparison [music] and desire and control and attachment. They weren't trying to teach us to be moral.

This had nothing to do with being a moral person. They were describing psychological malware. In Dao De Jing, "When wealth and honors lead to arrogance, it brings evil." If you read the Quran, you're going to see, "Do not commit abuse on the earth spreading corruption." In the Bible, it says, "Do not store up treasures on earth." You

read the Buddha and it says, "Clinging is the root of suffering." Every tradition saw this coming. The moment humans forgot who they were, they tried to fill this emptiness with every single thing they can except the truth. And that's exactly what we did as a people. We built entire civilizations on top of a lie that we're separate. These

giant economies on top of the lie that we're all lacking. And we all built identities on the lie that we're not enough. The ego that starts off as a small little tribal safety mechanism became this global operating system. [music] We started comparing and competing and hoarding and fearing and posturing, consuming, scrolling, performing. We