The Spiritual Cost of Consuming the News: How Fear-Based Media Disconnects Us from Light

When I decided to depart from social media, I also made a conscious effort to stop reading and consuming the news.

Some individuals might call me irresponsible, ignorant, or that I am finding a way out of being responsible for others’ suffering, but for me, it’s none of the above. It’s freedom from a narrative that attempts to ensnare me in chaos, suffering, and above all, lies.

“Amidst the illusions that keep the world spinning in agony, the children of God seek to know and live a higher reality. Spiritual beings value integrity more than compromise. Seekers of truth are already filled because their noble values elevate them above the fray. The story of the world implies that the good are downtrodden and evil people triumph. The media are filled with accounts of war, murder, cruelty, and corruption. Watching the news is depressing because the news is immersed in illusions, not truth. Yet there is a different kind of news that brings upliftment. When you withdraw your attention from reports based on fear, titillation, and sensationalism, you reclaim the serenity those reports shredded.“

The Mystical Messiah, pg. 94

The news is manufactured by nefarious energies. This is why there is little or no “good news” shown on television or reported on news websites. The goal of “news” is to keep you trapped in Ego and separation (rather than Unity), to amplify your fear, and to keep you distracted from the path of Light. This is disappointing considering the etymology of the word news comes from the Latin word Nova which means light. Originally intended as an access point and source of light, it has become twisted and distorted into a central hub for the opposite: fear.

When you are constantly consuming illusions, you’ll get sick. There is nothing soul-nourishing about this food you willfully eat. You are not mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually fortified by this content. In fact, more times than not, your feeling of helplessness, of frustration, of heartbreak, and of fear is amplified tenfold. There are those who feel they have a responsibility to “spread the word” to see change, but how does spreading fear, sadness, and suffering bring change?

Change is found on the other end of the spectrum. Change is found when you move from a place from Love. Love amplifies joy, joy spreads infinitely, and joy creates a shift to Light. An Alignment to God/Source and God’s work does not come from a place where you magnify the fear of Ego and low-energies, but where you Align fully and completely with the God-Energy of Love, which recognizes that Light always wins, and that this is just a distraction from the path that achieves that true Unity, harmony, and Ascension.

I understand that the downtrodden might read this and call me delusional or privileged, and they can call me what they wish. When you are only eating illusions for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and when your mind is focused only on your suffering and anger, all you want to do is pull other people to that level with you. Suffer with me and others, or you are cruel! Suffer with the masses or you’re useless to create change! This is the thought that I held when I was young, as well.

But you cannot create meaningful change and help guide a world towards unity and Light when you don’t know what it looks like, feels like, tastes like. You don’t make change by pulling everyone down into the trenches. Battles are won when people take up the sword of Light, not when people are tied down by illusion and suffering. Where your mind is trapped, your energy flows – feeding energy into anger doesn’t create change. Holding a space for the trust and wisdom in knowing that Light Always Wins brings real, tangible, truthful change.

My laptop is on the precipice of dying, so I will end with a few questions for your Spirit:

What are you feeding yourself each day? Are you consuming fear and calling it Awareness? Are you digesting outrage and mistaking it for righteousness? Are you confusing emotional triggers with spiritual responsibility?

Or are you choosing nourishment that strengthens your Light, steadies your nervous system, and aligns you with Truth rather than illusion?

You were never meant to carry the weight of the world’s suffering on your shoulders; that burden does not belong to you, it belongs to Ego, which believes salvation comes through martyrdom and pain. Spirit knows otherwise. Spirit knows that your greatest service is true clarity, spiritual coherence, and Alignment.

When you step away from fear-based narratives, you are not abandoning the world, you are refusing to feed what keeps it sick and stuck, separated and suffering. Light does not need you exhausted. God/Source does not need you traumatized. The world does not heal because you watched another tragedy unfold. It heals when enough souls choose to anchor into peace instead of panic, Love instead of outrage, Truth instead of illusion.

People who constantly watch the news get depressed because the kingdom it depicts is not the world we are born to live in.

The Mystical Messiah, pg. 234

Guard what enters your mind as carefully as you guard what enters your body. Not everything offered as “information” is meant to be consumed. Some things are simply poison dressed as responsibility.

Choose wisely. Choose Light. And trust that your Alignment does far more for this world than your suffering ever could.

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xx C