What I have
noticed in Popular Culture, even in regards to Spirituality, is that the
emphasis is on INDIVIDUAL wellbeing… it is as though the Business of Spirituality
was addressing itself to the Market of Individual Needs and Desires. Well, we all do live in a Capitalist Society where
success is measured on the ability to sell products to Individual Consumers,
and so we can’t be much surprised when even Spirituality begins to address its
appeal to the Individual – the Ego, when, really, isn’t the entire point of
Spiritual to transcend the Ego and Identify with the Universal. But, apparently, the Marketing People within
the ranks of the Spiritual Community haven’t yet been able to resolve that
contradiction… apparently they have all
borrowed money from the Banks to fund the Business of Spirituality , and, well,
they are honor bound to pay it back… but it is questionable whether they are
doing it honorably.
Yes, it may
seem just like a small point of confusion… not so much the Blame of Spirituality
as the Culture we now live in, so addressed to the Individual Consumer. I forget who said it, but it was a very wise
quote, regarding the good and moral men from past ages, that “their virtues
were their own, but their vices belonged to the Age in which they lived”. Anyway, all our vices belong to this
Capitalist Age where Greed and Selfishness are accounted the Primary Virtues.
So we really
need to look at Spirituality, and what we expect of it. Try to drown out the
drumbeats of our Selfish Consumer Driven Culture , and look at Spirituality itself,
in its purity.
This
introspective Look may not be
pleasant. Well, it WON’T be pleasant. Humanity, the World, the Collective, the Universe
are all in sad shape. If you are at all
Spiritually Connected, well, you should be sad. If you are into Spirituality to find Peace or
Bliss, well maybe you are in the wrong place. Maybe you should turn to Drug Addition or promiscuous sexual activity to get what
you are really after.
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