The Road Ahead - Updated Edition

Swami Kriyananda writes here about a number of trends that are destined to bring about hard times socially and economically. More importantly, he shares predictions and prophecies that Paramhansa Yogananda made about challenges that lie before us now, and how best to weather the storm that is brewing on the horizon.In a section called "Forewarned is Forearmed," Kriyananda writes:To try to pierce the veil and peer ahead in time is not always, as people often claim, utterly futile. Present signs often point at least to probable future developments. And especially in critical and insecure times such as these, it behooves us to do what we can to plan ahead intelligently. During other periods of great change in history there have always been men and women of foresight who managed to ride the storms to new heights of success, while others were crushed and broken by calamities for which they were totally unprepared.We are now in the midst of the largest pandemic of our lives due to the coronavirus. While hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost, the virus itself will be tamed relatively soon. But the financial effects will last for years?-?perhaps for decades.The same destructive economic forces that Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda warned about all those years ago are still present today. And they have grown increasingly powerful and dangerous in the intervening years.