Cutting through distortion

We’re likely the best informed, and possibly most manipulated, version of humanity there has been. We have vast amounts of knowledge at our finger tips, quite literally. We have access, courtesy of our ever-expanding, 24/7 media, to the scary, surprising, inspiring, wonderful and, on occasion, plain weird, imagination-defying happenings across our planet.

That window on the world could lead us to believe we are well-informed, even wise, about the world and its events.

Yet, if we dig a little deeper all is not as it seems. That very same news passes through so many human filters – journalists, sub-editors and media owners - that prejudices, biases and leanings have distorted it beyond reality. Not only that, much of the news presented to us is shaped to catch our attention and short-formed to sound bites so that we don’t have to give it too much attention.

How do we cut through this and gain greater, truer understanding of our world and the meaning of the events unfolding before us? Come to wisdom, to true knowing?

Wider and deeper reading may help though we are still left with a mountain of information which we must sift and synthesise to come to higher understanding.

Of course we possess, already, this instrument of synthesis though may have got out of the habit of its use or forgotten its existence. So, we must turn our efforts to our inner work, to establishing our clear connection with soul and cutting through the preferences, biases and filters of our personality.

Then we can begin to tune in to a deeper and higher source of knowing, a more universal wisdom which isn’t about headlines, and enables us to begin to make sense of the world in a more balanced, more elevated and more hopeful frame so that we can play a positive part in making it better for all.