The Science of Spirit. Part 3
By: Seeker
A problem many people have in trying to find a better way to live is that the reality in which they are embedded is so pervasively aligned into the indulgence of the physical senses. Every day, every hour, we are exposed to influences designed very carefully to guide us into buying more, into letting our physical senses dictate what will fill our lives.
This is arguably the exact opposite of the way to go. Our society is distinctly NOT filled with happy and contented people, rather the opposite. We export our way of life to countries that have histories that beggar the short span of our ‘democratic’ world as if we have discovered something special and worth having. It seems from the results however, that all we’ve done is export our misery to them.
It seems so worthwhile to be able to afford anything we want to make our lives easier and happier. The new technology around us is stunning in its complexity and facility, and it isn’t difficult to see how they could change our lives, yet somehow we seem to head steadily in the direction of more people looking for escape, more people turning to drugs, legal and illegal, longer queues in the medical centres and escalating levels of violence across the world. Accompanying all this, and perhaps the cause of most of it, is a mounting helplessness in affecting the world in which we live.
Anyone who thinks things through can tell you how useless it is to have elections to select our leaders – I doubt there is a ‘democratic’ country on Earth where a citizen could give a meaningful explanation of the differences between the two political parties for whom they can vote.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:26 am
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