Why Is It So?
By: Seeker
Why is it that even the parts of our lives that should draw our focus seem to be designed to ensnare us and keep us from higher things? Religion (big R) has taken the position in our lives that is meant to show us a different world. Our spiritual life, when found by individuals, seems to give new meaning to our lives and to provide regular doses of the finer moments we can experience, yet Religion seems set up to prevent most of us achieving such states of beingness.
Our society, once dedicated to the ideals of freedoms and rights, has steadily mown them down as we are presented with reasons for changing how we live. Slowly, over decades, we are directed away from the spiritual world and refocused on the purely physical.
Our goals are drawn from the physical world around us, even when we know without doubt that those same things are not making those who have them any happier. In fact a case can be made that achievement of the physical goals merely increases the need for more in the same way that regular use of a drug necessitates more of the substance to ensure the ongoing effects.
It is hard to accept that, with all the good people around us, with all the fights for our rights that have happened over the centuries, that here, now, in our age, total slavery seems possible. If they can stop us wanting spiritual things, they have no need for walls and guards. If they can keep us focused on wanting more goods, more comforts, less danger, while simultaneously withholding those things, we will entrap ourselves and finally stop seeking, or even seeing, a better world.
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