Mental Health.

I was shocked but not surprised by recent statistics on mental health.

I have long said that there is too much pressure on people, especially young people.

Suicide numbers among the young are soaring.

And this is no coincidence.

Children are left without a parent's love in child minding centers from the age of a few months.

They are taught reading and writing before kindergarten.

When the start school they are treated as job trainees.  This dehumanizes them and prepares them for life a s a work unit.

The only messages we get are materialistic - buy, own, watch, listen, follow, enjoy..... 

Teenagers are tempted with fame and fortune.

Workers are overworked and underpaid.

Entertainment is meaningless.

Rock music is infested with Satanism.

Everpresent earplugs inject poisonous curses.

Sex, death, suicide.

Darkness, depression, evil.

It is no wonder there is a mental health crisis.

But there are  remedies for these destructive influences.

Faith, compassion, love.

Classical sacred music.

New spirituality based on unconditional love.

An acknowledgement of our humanity.

A return to the humanities in education.

A concern for everyone.

Forgiveness, mercy, friendship.

This is the message of the New Age.

May it increase.

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