The reality of true life on Earth is quite removed from the life-style that has been developed and embraced by the thoughtless, habit-ridden, dull normalcy of the Twentieth Century industrial and post-industrial world.  You can easily notice that pleasure has been cheapened and made insensitive, that genuine inner joy has been reduced and potential happiness of self-betterment computerized into nothing but empty information and silly conversations on the Internet.  One of the goals of New Shambhala Warriorship is to help you and a few others here and there who resonate with the spirit of all this to fearlessly reconnect to the here-and-nowness of simple, natural reality of the living Earth so that you will go forward in life without losing touch with Her.  This implies that in the world of your inner being you need to cleanse and clarify your link with the Infinite Spirit, the inmost Ground or Basis of Human Being, so that you will never be confused or intimidated by the collective illusions, threats and pressures built into society, past and future.  You must enable yourself to rest continuously on the simplicity of the natural, basic earth in a state of genuine immediacy of here-and-nowness in awareness of non-dual oneness, breathing the Zen-like meaning of Am This Here Now.

This does not mean you need to discard the use of modern technology and the computer, but you do not allow modern technology and the computer to use you.  You do not allow modern, clever and cynical technological atheism to make you insensitive, nervous, tense, hurried, distracted and robotic; you do not let it take you away from natural awareness, from the smell of air and the feeling of life; you do not let it blind you to the beauty of the surrounding outdoors; you do not let it undermine and destroy your capacity for heightened awareness, meditation and appreciation; you do not let it blind you to the magic in things.

Look at how modern so-called “life” tends to tie you in knots of hurry and anxiety, repressing your own vitality and real personal needs in order to conform to the demands and expectations of other people or society.  You have given up your own inner power and vision in return for being accepted by the very same societal, governmental and economic forces that have imprisoned you!  You must learn to release the tensions that have built up inside you, you must go through shamanistic outdoor Voidwalking or just going out into the wilderness somewhere and screaming at the empty sky.  It is urgently imperative that you do something to shake up your energy and help it freely circulate in your bodily system.  This is one of the great reasons I have brought the New Shambhala to the Arctic wilderness of Scandinavia.  Without a magical life outdoors, the Spirit suffocates.

In your aspiration for a better, more spiritual and evolutionary life, you must learn to listen to your Spirit, which is your most sincere and innocent self.  If, instead, you keep listening to your clever, manipulative self, there will be no end to your worries and bad surprises.  Everything depends on which self we approach life with.

Get out of your usual ruts about all this.  Reconnect with the awesome Energy-of-Experiencing that is secretly present in your cup of coffee on your desk or tabletop, or in your kitchen sink when washing the dishes, or even in the sound of a car driving by, or in the simple feeling of the floor, sidewalk or lawn beneath your feet.  Be more aware of your own Energy-of-Experiencing before you try again to discuss spiritual development theory with a friend or your spouse.  Without your own Energy-of-Experiencing, your own breath of Am This Here Now, you are spiritually dead, you are just another modern neurotic spiritual pretender living in empty self-deception.  The time has come to awaken and change your habits and your way of life.