Why is a crisis necessary?

No living being in existence, therefore, will be able to experience anything without having experienced its opposite beforehand. (LB 1, 35)

If it were not for pain, no individual would be sustained in an eternal existence; no living being would ever be brought back from the wrong road, but would continue on it, which again would be the same as an eternal silence, for without pain, no contrast to life, and without contrast, no manifestation, no roads towards perfection, no evolution, no experience of existence, but a universal equilibrium preventing any form of movement. An eternal death would be the master of life. But thanks to pain, the opposite is a fact. Life is the master of death, and pain, a divine blessing. Pain shows the way to God, to Truth and to Life. (LB 1, 86)

This "struggle for existence", or this ever-lasting effort by the individual to overcome and control unpleasant forms of energy in nature, is recognized under the concept of "evolution". (LB 1, 5)

When will no more veils surround the truth?

And here the answer will be:

"When the individuals' sense perception is so far davanced in its development that they are capable of experiencing as a realistic fact that `everything is very good´". (LB 1, 28)

People will then discover that much of what they previously thought the work of the Devil was, in fact, the work of God. (LB 1, 26)

These are excerpts from The Third Testament- Livets Bog 1, the magnum opus of a rather unknown Danish visionary called Martinus (1890-1981). They are availabe for free in  several languages at http://www.martinus.dk.

He was one of the few who became aware of the global crisis when nobody talked about it, being a process that started to take place decades ago and not recently, as some may believe. 

The world is in crisis because we, single persons, are in crisis, not only economically, but psychologically and spiritually. The states of unrest, discomfort, confusion and even certain diseases, are a "taste of non aligment with ourselves, our source, the Truth". 

This is how we are invited to look for the way back and wonder: what does it mean to be aligned with ourselves and the Kosmos?  how can we be aligned?

Such is the essence of our search in life, where the negative side also plays a divine role. 

The Nature of the Mind

A story tells that Siddharta the Buddha was once walking across Nature with his close disciple Govinda, and then he asked:

–Would you please take this bowl and fill it with water from the stream we left behind a while ago.

–Of course, master. I´ll bring the water for you.

Govinda then goes to the stream and just when he's kneeling down to pick  up the water, a man crosses the stream with his oxen and the water gets mudded. 
The disciple, disappointed, goes back to the Buddha.

–Sorry, but the water is now mudded.

–I see –said the Buddha thoughtful, and knowing the stream was connected to a large lake behind the mountains, he adds, with an insistent tone:

–But Govinda, I´m very thirsty. So, please, go back to the stream and try to get clean water.

Govinda obeyed willingly, although confused about his master's insistence. 

When he arrived, the water of the stream was still dark. So, he just sat on the shore and waited wondering about a possible solution. Then, as he was observing the stream attentively, he started noticing how the water became clearer and clearer, since all the sediments and leaves sank back again to the bottom.

This realization generated an "illumination" in Govinda's heart, who understood the lesson of the Buddha, and remembered what the master once had said:

"The Nature of the Mind is always present, pure and crystalline, but its surface gets mudded with thoughts and emotions from time to time, until these dissipate again".