Spend just a few minutes scrolling through the news and it’s easy to believe that everything is unravelling.
Wars. Political upheaval. Economic uncertainty. Artificial intelligence. Earth changes. Institutions losing trust. Systems that once appeared permanent beginning to crack beneath their own weight.
Many people feel exhausted.
Many are asking the same question:
“How much longer can this continue?”
Perhaps there is another way to look at what is unfolding.
One of my favourite spiritual teachers from the East, Sri Yukteswar, offered a perspective over a century ago that feels remarkably relevant today.
A Different Understanding of Time
Sri Yukteswar was the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, whose classic Autobiography of a Yogi introduced millions of Western readers to the deeper philosophies of yoga and consciousness.
In 1894 he published a small but profound book called The Holy Science.
Within its pages he challenged one of the most widely accepted understandings of ancient Indian cosmology.
Rather than believing humanity remained trapped in the Kali Yuga—the age of darkness and spiritual ignorance—he proposed that the traditional calculations had drifted over time.
Instead, he suggested that humanity had already passed the lowest point of the cycle around the beginning of the eighteenth century and had begun the long ascent back toward higher consciousness.
Whether one accepts this cosmology literally or symbolically, it offers an extraordinary lens through which to view our current moment.
The Darkness Before the Dawn
Every sunrise begins in darkness.
Every birth begins with labour.
Every forest regenerates after fire.
Nature teaches us that endings and beginnings often occupy the same moment.
Perhaps this is what we are witnessing today.
The old structures are not simply collapsing.
They are revealing where they have lost alignment with life itself.
Whenever consciousness expands, anything built upon fear, control or separation naturally comes under pressure.
What appears to be chaos may actually be exposure.
What feels like breakdown may be the necessary process before breakthrough.
A Remarkable Prediction
One of the most fascinating aspects of Sri Yukteswar’s work is that he believed this ascending age would be characterised by humanity discovering that the universe is fundamentally energetic rather than merely material.
He wrote these ideas before modern physics transformed our understanding of matter and energy.
today, our scientific language continues to evolve while many spiritual traditions have long spoken of subtle energy, consciousness and interconnectedness.
Although science and spirituality often use different frameworks, both increasingly invite us to look beyond purely material explanations of reality.
Why So Many People Are Awakening
Have you noticed how many conversations are changing?
People who never questioned anything are beginning to ask deeper questions.
Meditation has become mainstream.
Ancient wisdom is being rediscovered.
Interest in consciousness, intuition, healing, near-death experiences and human potential has expanded dramatically.
At the same time, many people feel as though life is accelerating.
Old identities no longer fit.
Relationships shift.
Careers change.
Priorities transform.
It’s almost as though something within us is remembering a deeper truth that has always been there.
Why This Time Feels So Intense
If humanity truly is moving through a period of accelerated transformation, then intensity is not a sign that something has gone wrong.
It may simply be evidence that profound change is underway.
The systems that shaped the previous age cannot accompany us indefinitely into the next.
There is grief in letting go.
There is uncertainty in transition.
But there is also extraordinary possibility.
The caterpillar experiences the dissolution of everything it has ever known before becoming the butterfly.
Transformation has never been comfortable.
It has only ever been necessary.
Perhaps This Is Why You Came
One of the questions I return to often is this:
What if your soul understood that it would incarnate during one of humanity’s greatest transitions?
Not because it would be easy.
But because it would be meaningful.
Many of us have carried an inexplicable feeling since childhood that we came here for something important.
Not necessarily something famous.
But something significant.
To anchor compassion.
To remain conscious.
To build new communities.
To create beauty.
To help others remember who they truly are.
Perhaps that quiet knowing was never imagination.
Perhaps it was memory.
The Invitation
Whether you resonate with Sri Yukteswar’s vision literally or simply appreciate it as a profound metaphor, the invitation remains the same.
Do not mistake transition for failure.
Do not confuse exposure with collapse.
Do not assume that because the old world is shaking, nothing beautiful is being born.
History rarely feels historic while we are living through it.
One day people may look back on this period as the beginning of a remarkable shift in human consciousness.
And perhaps they will realise that ordinary people—people like you and me—helped build the foundations of what came next.
The dawn never arrives all at once.
It begins with the first light appearing on the horizon.
Perhaps that light is already here.
Remember… history rarely announces itself while we’re living through it.
You are not late.
You are not here by accident.
You came for this.
With love,
Anina ✨
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