My answer to this will be a little… spiritual.
The issue is this: In Yoga they call this the first chakra person, -There are 7 chakra in the human body and the “first chakra person” is an individual that functions from the level of his first chakra only. That is a type of person whose existence is material, whose needs are closely connected to the satisfaction of bodily needs and impulses, whose mind is machine like, whose behavior is basically animalistic, who is basically a machine more than a human being who can make decisions and choices (as Rousseau puts it in one of his books). This is a nutshell explanations that is much more elaborate in several books on yoga and spirituality.
Anyway, this “first chakra person” does not have the ability to understand anything spiritual. When you say “spirit” he or she will think of it as the physical body being raised from the dead at the time of the final judgment like zombies in “The walking dead” series, when you talk about “dimensions beyond physical existence” his / her mind will go to a vision of heaven with plenty of food, wealth and riches, and of course “wives” whose number will vary according to your religious tradition.
So when you give a spiritual teaching to those guys (a spiritual teaching of any kind). Like the Indian populist president Modi for instance. All he / she will see will be a political / social ideology. They won’t even see a philosophy in it (you have to be a second chakra person in order to have such intellectual capacities according to yogic systems of thought – we can elaborate on that later if you like).
So you don’t need something highly complex as the holy books of major religions for them to turn these messages completely upside down. Just give them Karl Marks and his ideas on historical materialism. A) They will turn his books as a sort of bible and b) you will have Stalin of Mao like creatures murdering their own people in the name of dialectical materialism.
And that’s the idea behind spiritual progress. We want to achieve spiritual progress because without that, there is no “magic book” as you put it, who can explain you everything and tell you the truth about everything. Such a book does not exist. Or at least that’s what I came to understand at this stage of my spiritual progress.
So beyond the philosophical / conceptual separation of religion and politics, there is this spiritual dimension to it also.
But what you say is true. To the Ego-centered mind 1 will automatically lead to 2, 2 will lead you to 3, 3 will lead you to 4 etc. And I think the solution to this very problem is already being mentioned within the spiritual teachings themselves. I also happen to believe that in this century we will see the gradual collapse of this erroneous approach to spirituality. In fact, I see political İslam, Anti-abortion movements in the US, or the racist attitudes of some “Buddhists” in Myanmar as a form of panic that is being displayed by these ego-centered beings. On a subconscious level, they know that nothing is ever going to be like it was before the 17thor 18th centuries. They know that the masses, the individuals are changing. So they are resorting to increasingly oppressive and dogmatic interpretation of religious texts that goes in hand with an increasingly aggressive and fanatical behavior toward diverging ideas on issues that they are defining as “sensitive”.
To sum up: I think this is an evolutionary process and I think that there will be very obvious changes in this area toward the end of this century.
The issue is this: In Yoga they call this the first chakra person, -There are 7 chakra in the human body and the “first chakra person” is an individual that functions from the level of his first chakra only. That is a type of person whose existence is material, whose needs are closely connected to the satisfaction of bodily needs and impulses, whose mind is machine like, whose behavior is basically animalistic, who is basically a machine more than a human being who can make decisions and choices (as Rousseau puts it in one of his books). This is a nutshell explanations that is much more elaborate in several books on yoga and spirituality.
Anyway, this “first chakra person” does not have the ability to understand anything spiritual. When you say “spirit” he or she will think of it as the physical body being raised from the dead at the time of the final judgment like zombies in “The walking dead” series, when you talk about “dimensions beyond physical existence” his / her mind will go to a vision of heaven with plenty of food, wealth and riches, and of course “wives” whose number will vary according to your religious tradition.
So when you give a spiritual teaching to those guys (a spiritual teaching of any kind). Like the Indian populist president Modi for instance. All he / she will see will be a political / social ideology. They won’t even see a philosophy in it (you have to be a second chakra person in order to have such intellectual capacities according to yogic systems of thought – we can elaborate on that later if you like).
So you don’t need something highly complex as the holy books of major religions for them to turn these messages completely upside down. Just give them Karl Marks and his ideas on historical materialism. A) They will turn his books as a sort of bible and b) you will have Stalin of Mao like creatures murdering their own people in the name of dialectical materialism.
And that’s the idea behind spiritual progress. We want to achieve spiritual progress because without that, there is no “magic book” as you put it, who can explain you everything and tell you the truth about everything. Such a book does not exist. Or at least that’s what I came to understand at this stage of my spiritual progress.
So beyond the philosophical / conceptual separation of religion and politics, there is this spiritual dimension to it also.
But what you say is true. To the Ego-centered mind 1 will automatically lead to 2, 2 will lead you to 3, 3 will lead you to 4 etc. And I think the solution to this very problem is already being mentioned within the spiritual teachings themselves. I also happen to believe that in this century we will see the gradual collapse of this erroneous approach to spirituality. In fact, I see political İslam, Anti-abortion movements in the US, or the racist attitudes of some “Buddhists” in Myanmar as a form of panic that is being displayed by these ego-centered beings. On a subconscious level, they know that nothing is ever going to be like it was before the 17thor 18th centuries. They know that the masses, the individuals are changing. So they are resorting to increasingly oppressive and dogmatic interpretation of religious texts that goes in hand with an increasingly aggressive and fanatical behavior toward diverging ideas on issues that they are defining as “sensitive”.
To sum up: I think this is an evolutionary process and I think that there will be very obvious changes in this area toward the end of this century.
