What are some of the challenges of upholding chivalric ideals in a modern society?
One of the challenges is the complexity of society and the speed of its development. Another is the polarization of rich and poor, north and south, healing and destroying, self-interest versus enlightened activity. Although polarization is still getting stronger, the impact of new economic, medical, political and spiritual forms of living is gaining increasingly more terrain. Humanity still needs many more individuals and groups with deep insight and integrated polarities to participate in concrete actions all over the world. The modern world is definitely at the threshold of a new evolutionary phase. Everywhere I see the spreading of higher levels of consciousness based on new paradigms. Mystic knights participate in that natural event by holding up – or reintroducing, if necessary – the ethics of timeless wisdom in every field of life in order to keep a high level of truth and energy. As in any dawn, the possibilities of co-creating a new world are better than ever. After the epoch o
