Talk
“Any individual can become an oasis of virtue. Any individual can become an embodiment of sanity and mental balance. And everyone who does is making a contribution to humanity during the metacrisis and beyond.”
—Dr. B. Alan Wallace
In this seminal talk for the Center for Contemplative Research (CCR), Dr. B. Alan Wallace diagnoses the nature of the “metacrisis” our world now faces, as well as a practical set of remedies, captured in the Sixfold Matrix of Mental Balance. We offer this message now to summarize the root causes of our compounding global crises (including political polarization, toxic nationalism, declining mental health, environmental pollution, and climate change), and to invite you into a clear framework for cultivating the ability to skillfully respond to the challenges we face.
The Sixfold Matrix is a framework developed by CCR founders Dr. B. Alan Wallace and Dr. Eva Natanya, and is a product of decades of scholarship and research. Through conative, ethical, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual balance, individuals and communities have the power to mitigate the mental afflictions of greed, hatred, and delusion, which are the root causes of the metacrisis.
At the CCR, we are engaged in expanding access to the tools of the Sixfold Matrix through developing curricula for children and young adults in schools, and eventually, for a variety of institutions worldwide. If you’d like to join us on this mission to Fathom the Mind. Heal the World. please consider signing up for our newsletter, exploring our library of dozens of hours of free talks and guided meditations, or making a gift to expand the impact of this approach far and wide.
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