Is the Kali Yuga Ending in 2025? The Great Turning and What It Asks of Us | TCM #166 (Part 1)

This podcast lays out the deeper cosmic, esoteric, and psycho-spiritual framework behind the state of the world today and why we are living through the most decisive threshold of the Great Year, also called the Yuga Cycle. Part One explores the larger cosmic architecture through the core insights of Yuga Shift by Bibhu Dev Misra, a groundbreaking reconstruction of the Yuga Cycle that dispels centuries of distortions and false assumptions. We look at why humanity has been in the Kali Yuga dark age for over 5,000 years, how it manifests in the modern world, why it ends around 2025, why we are not already in the Dwapara Yuga, and what it means to enter the transitional phase between Yugas. We also examine the potential cataclysmic changes tied to this shift, including increased cometary activity, especially between 2030 and 2040, a recurring comet debris field linked to past civilizational collapses, and ways to mitigate these events. Part Two goes deeper into the Time of Transition as a spiritual threshold where humanity stands between destruction and conscious evolution. Drawing from esoteric Christianity, the Yuga teachings, Gurdjieff, and Integral Yoga, we explore the “Deluge of Fire” described by the mystics, which corresponds directly to the Ekpyrosis phase now unfolding at the end of the Kali Yuga. We unpack why it is so important to align with Dharma during this transitional phase, the traps and misconceptions around it, the danger of living someone else’s dharma, and how to anchor your own role and higher purpose in the new cycle. We also look at why transhumanism is a doomed, dead-end, and the final expression of the dark age of materialism, and why the real preparation lies in inner purification, sincerity, and alignment with the Divine. Most importantly, we explore what it takes to become one of the “seeds” for the next cycle and how to hold the inner flame through this Time of Transition. [Announcement: We are starting a new round of our flagship program "Time of Transition: Embodied Soul Awakening" in early 2026. If you want to be notified when the enrollment starts, sign up for the waiting list HERE.] Show Notes Part 1: * Introduction to Bibhu Dev Misra's book "Yuga Shift – The End of the Kali Yuga and the Impending Planetary Transformation" * The major misconceptions about the Yugas and why we are not already in the Dwapara Yuga * The real Yuga Cycle is a living map of how human consciousness rises and falls over a full Great Year. * The attributes of the Satya Yuga (Golden Age) * The descent from the Golden Age and loss of the innate Divine connection * The descending and ascending Kali Yuga and the 'night within a night" * Why have we been in the Kali Yuga for 5700 years * The attributes of the Kali Yuga (iron/Dark Age) * Why the descent of consciousness in the Kali Yuga gives evil and the dark forces a stronger and more organized influence over humanity * Why spiritual work becomes a real battle, and why bringing down the light is an act of spiritual warfare * Ekpyrosis as the fire of purification, marking the end of the Kali Yuga * The destructive phase at the end of the Kali Yuga lines up with real astronomical cycles * The role of the Taurid Comet Stream in recurring world upheavals at the end of each yuga * Why we are entering another major Taurid Cometary window between 2030 and 2040 * Fear, survivalism, and what this cycle is actually asking of us * Climate change, geoengineering, and cosmic cycles * The cosmic law of ascent and descent: a great opportunity for a fundamental shift in consciousness.