The millennial generation is becoming a force for the new earth. The more people I meet my age the more hope I gain for our world. Millennial buddhists, jews, christians, muslims, hindus, and all other religions alike are letting go of extremism and fundamental views, realizing the teachings are one in the same. How to live an open connected spiritual life that cultivates love.

Religion is losing us because it invokes disagreement and violence, and encourages negative characteristics such as laziness, procrastination, and moral confusion. We have a more unified understanding of the world around us with both scientific and artistic ways of thinking and being. We understand Einstein’s theories, we live for music, we are bio-inspired… we are a very intelligent generation and we love life. And with this one life we’ve been blessed with, why not use it connecting with each other and making positive change? This is the essence of the millennial generation spirituality.

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Wine is a catalyst to conversation, a social lubricant and an opiate for the senses. So, though it may help to know a little bit about wine, it’s best really to know a lot more about something else, and then to drink wine and share your knowledge in a social setting, whilst listening more than you speak, so as to keep the things going and learn more. Christopher Hitchens was ranked by the Economist in 2006 as one of the world’s greatest living conversationalists, and one may think that that is an odd thing to be. But really it’s not, we can only learn more and help people understand through conversations. Read the rest of this entry »