Light Pollution Is Hiding More Than Stars.

If you would walk outside in Brooklyn or Toronto, Chicago, LA, and look up at the sky at night, you'll see maybe two or three stars. And you might think, "Hey, that's all there is." But here's the wild part. Scientists estimate that there are close to 200 billion galaxies, and each one has billions of stars in it. You know where they are? They didn't vanish. They're just being drowned out by our own light pollution. Did you know that in most cities, over 99% of people can't see the Milky Way anymore? Not because it's gone, but because man-made light is too strong and it blocks it out. And that's not just astronomy. That's [music] life. People often say, "Where is the spirituality now nowadays? Where's the depth, the fire?" We think back to previous generations. They had angels and prophecy and tangible [music] holiness, and we're stuck with nothing. But the light didn't disappear. It's just being blocked by light polluted by our career and comfort and money and status and noise and pressure and chasing and building and upgrading and acquiring. It's not that there's no holiness in the world. It's that we filled our lives with so much other light pollution that we can't see it anymore. So, dim the noise, lower the glare, and suddenly [music] the stars are back.