This onslaught of endless marketing and distorted messaging is inescapable as brands, companies, and corporations now live within our mobile devices and flog us with advertisements with each click and scroll.
Within the consumer capitalist culture, materialism and over-consumption are not only encouraged, it's glamorized.
Success, power, beauty—and even love—have been tied to our ability to buy, own, sell (and show off) material goods, stripping these spiritual qualities of their true meaning.
Convinced that our self-worth is tied to money, possessions, and status, we have grown an insatiable appetite for more, more, more.
Whatever we have—is never enough!
This rampant consumerism drives our motivations and desires and we find ourselves sinking under its demands.
So even though we have SO MUCH TO OFFER (and are one of the most prosperous societies in the world with access to the greatest resources), we find ourselves drowning in the feelings of inadequacy, scarcity, and lack.
These feelings of inadequacy draw us away from developing our true inner gifts and talents and strip us of our ability to make our Divine Contribution to the world.