We live in a time where image and performance are mistaken for substance and authenticity, plagiarizing content is being normalized, and 500 words is considered “too long to read.”

My latest article is a reflection on what I’ve witnessed over the past two decades: the collapse of attention spans, the rise of influencer culture, the spiritual consequences of AI-generated content, and the deeper evolutionary forces behind it all.

This is for those who still value depth, integrity, and original thought in an age of digital noise and artificial appearance.

Read the full article here: https://bernhardguenther.substack.com/p/what-20-years-of-writing-has-taught

“Once you’re able to work through your trauma and sensitivity, you’ll see that your sensitivity as a gift.

For example, sensitivity can allow you to have a very profound spiritual experience, just sitting in nature and observing the elements around you. You can be deeply affected by a piece of music in a transcendent way.

Sensitivity can be hard sometimes in a world that often seems pathological. On the spiritual path, sensitivity becomes an asset, enabling you to have higher spiritual experiences and deeper relationships with yourself and others. It’s probably one of the most essential aspects to your awakening process.”

-Laura Matsue

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“I believe that we live in a generation of cycle breakers - people who have found the strength to end long-standing cycles that have run through their ancestral lines for generations.

I’ve heard some claim lately that intergenerational trauma doesn’t exist. That the past lives in the past. But those who have witnessed the same cycles repeat across generations know better.

Both science, such as studies in epigenetics, and psychology now affirm what many of us have always sensed: unhealed pain is passed through generations through certain behaviours, nervous systems, and relational patterns, and can even cause changes in gene expression.

Trauma experts like Mark Wolynn and Gabor Mate have spoken about how wounds we carry from our family histories can shape our core beliefs, influence the partners we choose, fuel the addictions we struggle with, and contribute to the physical illnesses we may develop. The past is not just in the past - it lives on in our bodies and has a direct impact on our lives in the present.

Ancestral trauma is an inheritance many of us unconsciously carry. It continues to ripple through our bloodlines until someone, in one generation, dares to face the pain. The act of facing and feeling what has always been there is what stops the cycle. It liberates the future and brings peace to the past.

That is the work of a cycle breaker.”

-Laura Matsue

Related to Episode 114, Part 2 - How to Break Cycles of Ancestral Trauma

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