Challenging Times:
Even in the best of times, those engaged in spiritual transformation have an immensely greater burden than “average” people, for the path of inner change is as demanding as it is rewarding. Now, we enter an era of great karmic reckoning, with profound energetic and astrological shifts. The environmental, social, economic, and political upheavals we are witnessing are merely effects of this dynamic change. The outcome may be a new Utopia of mutual empowerment, or the path of greed and
self-obsession will create further hell on earth.      The polarity is that marked.

In the time of the “Five Degenerations,” as described in Tibetan literature, we can expect severe obstacles to our individual and collective peace, happiness and accomplishment.
1. Elemental instability: erratic disturbances of the water and earth, wind and fire, ie. floods, storms, earthquakes, droughts, ecological crises, crop failures, etc.
2. Warfare: failure to resolve old racial and political conflicts, onset of new disruptions, with stealth weapons, terrorism and violence.
3. Social Upheaval: ongoing erosion of cultural values and integrity, with financial and economic upheavals, and the failure of consumerism as we knew it; In reaction, political forces will seek greater control on a massive scale.
4. Sickness: global epidemics and incurable diseases, including that causes by environmental toxins and man-made poisons will be rampant.
5. Values: the masses of humanity become increasingly blind to spiritual values, while indulging in greater self-inflation, greed and dehumanization.

Energetic Solutions
While these disruptions are inevitable, their impact and destructive effects can be greatly mitigated or averted on an individual level (and even globally) through spiritual practice. The ancient tantric sciences, perfected and preserved in Tibet over the millennia, have developed ways to change the flow of destructive energies, avert them and introduce protective and healing influences for the individual. Created at the highest levels of consciousness, these sacred practices have been transmitted in an unbroken lineage and retain the full force and purity of their origins. Such rituals, performed by skilled Lamas in an impeccable fashion, are able to alter the elemental and karmic energy fields behind all.