Shot By Brock

Sometime in the 1600’s the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote the word’s “all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Indeed, you could argue that if we could collectively and objectively face the impact of our runaway egos – that is things like greed, division, inequality, war, climate change, destruction and exploitation of the natural world and so on – we might have avoided many of the global crises we now face. But as Pascal observed, we are just too distracted by the allure of all the things outside ourselves, to be able to spend any time looking within ourselves. And this is something that Tom Cronin wants to change. Tom is a world-renowned meditation teacher, a transformational coach, and the founder of the Stillness Project, which aims to inspire a billion people to meditate. And he’s also the producer of a new documentary film and an accompanying book, called The Portal, which posits that all of man’s problems could be solved if we could learn to meditate