Too Many Perspectives? The Modern Mind's Silent Crisis

Why Information Overload Could Break Us - And How Spiritual Sādhanā Might Be the Only Way to Survive

1. The Age of Information Overload

We, being incarnated on this earth, specifically from the 1990’s onwards, are living in the most overstimulated environment that any human society has endured. No generation before us — not a single human born before 1950 — ever had access to the sheer volume, amount and quality of constant, contradictory, valuable, relentless, life-changing information that we now absorb every single day. Some researchers estimate we take in a staggering 50GB of information per day. It’s no longer a question of ignorance — it’s a question of how to survive too much information and not drown in the digital seas. I feel it in my own mind: a kind of swelling pressure. My brain feels heavy. My thoughts are overpopulated, like muscles reaching exhaustion in the gym. Do you feel this too? I consume information because I love learning (it is one of my highest values) — but at times, I can’t tell if I’m expanding or splintering. The mind wasn’t made for this pace, this frequency, this level of input. Or was it?

2. The Paradox of the Spiritual Seeker / Personal Growth Enthusiast

And here’s the painful irony — I’m part of the problem. You might be too.

As humans, we crave growth and expansion. We want to understand ourselves, others, the cosmos. But that natural craving has been hijacked by the attention economy. We click, scroll, read, watch, and absorb — endlessly. We tell ourselves it’s for our evolution, our growth. But the line between hunger for growth and content addiction is razor thin. And I find myself caught between it.

What if all this information — the books, the videos, the frameworks — doesn’t actually help anyone? What if it’s just soothing noise? What if our ambition to “grow” is just another way of bypassing the silence, the stillness, the not-knowing? And what if, in trying to highlight this, I’m feeding the very system that is making everyone sick?

3. Evolution or Collapse?

I think this is evolution in action — the painful “tearing of mental muscles” before a stronger human mind emerges — or are we diving headfirst into a mass psychological breakdown? I think especially of neurodivergent people, whose mental architecture is already more sensitive and more nuanced, this wave of unrelenting information might not be just overwhelming — it might be fatal.

I’m afraid, deeply afraid, that over the next 20 years, many people simply won’t be able to bear it. If giant tech corporations continue to maximize the manipulation of our attention - our consciousness, maybe even our soul itself, then the human mind will make the well informed decision to self-terminate. The toxic noosphere will have no gas mask. Other survivors will numb out. Some will disappear into addiction, or dissociation. This is not fear-mongering. This is a quiet epidemic — and it’s already happening.

4. Only Those Who Undertake Spiritual Discipline Will Survive

Here’s where my hope lies - the relentless growth of the information sphere is the latest painful growth spurt of humanity. It’s chaos now, but the storm will settle as the free market of ideas learns to filter what is genuinely useful, what is genuine wisdom, from what is useless noise. And how do we survive in the meantime? The answer is Sādhanā. This ancient Sanskrit word has many definitions. Here is mine:

Sādhanā (साधना): Dedicated, intentional practice or discipline undertaken to attain a higher goal — whether spiritual liberation, self-realization, mastery of a skill, or inner purification.

Spiritual Sādhanā — yoga, meditation, breathwork, fasting, prayer, discipline, exercise, concentration— will not be optional in the coming decades. It will be mandatory if we are to remain healthy, sane human beings. This means daily, disciplined, grounded practice. Not in a religious sense, but in the very practical, almost survivalist sense. It’s about mental hygiene. Refining and upgrading the nervous system. Deep Stillness. Breath.

Those who do not create a space within themselves to process and integrate the flood of information will not survive this era with their minds intact. The ones who endure will not be the most “intelligent” — they’ll be the ones who have trained themselves to remain whole and mentally stabilized in the face of informational chaos. From the lens of the astrological tradition, we can see this coming very soon. Uranus, a planet of swift, surprising, shocking, electrical, revolutionary movement and information, will enter the tropical sign of Gemini (Communication, trade, information, conversation, movement, education) on July 7th, 2025. It will set the background frequency of our culture for the next 7 years. Expect electrical revolutionary currents through the information-sphere. De-centralized education. Web3. Blockchain. Maybe we’ll even get those flying cars we were promised.

This isn’t a newsletter about a solution. It’s a transmission from inside the storm. If you’re overwhelmed, addicted to knowing, unsure what’s real anymore — you’re not broken. You’re just awake in a world that hasn’t learned to pause.

Closing Words

Information doesn’t mean wisdom. You’ll develop a sense for what you should truly listen to.

We are all part of the information overconsumption problem.

We are all part of the potential solution.

Hold your mind and body steady.

Start your Sādhanā and stay sane in a world that’s about to be less sane.