Life is complex and mysterious of course.
First, our problems stem from our inability to express our positive, mental, physical, creative and spiritual potential as relates to each of us as individuals and as members of a community. Second, our problems relate to our alienation of the natural world. The source of both the inability and the alienation is a loss of intuitive awareness of our connections to all things in the seen and unseen world, AND our inability to consistently apply the core universal virtues in every aspect of our life. These virtues include courage, generosity, patience, humility, fortitude and honesty. As a result of these shortcomings, we have continued to embrace a worldview that emphasizes individual material gain and personal authoritarian power.