(July 1, 2014 at 6:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Get back to me when spirit-food starts alleviating hunger - anywhere (really, when spirit anything...starts to alleviate anything....at all).
The problem with things like spirituality and enlightenment is the idea that there's some supernatural dimension involved. Enlightenment can be seen as psychology.
Let's say Fred X had parents who made him feel that he was never good enough. He becomes driven by an unconscious desire to prove that he's superior to everyone else and ends up as a successful businessman. In the process he causes a lot of suffering to humans and other animals and damages the planet.
He never feels good enough, though, so he becomes depressed and decides to go for psychotherapy (which qualifies as a spiritual path in this context). Due to the therapy he realises what he's doing and why and how much damage his actions are causing himself and others. He then changes his lifestyle and starts working for human rights, animal welfare and the ecology.
Psychotherapy isn't the only way of waking up to negative thought and behaviour patterns, of course. I just used it as an example.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?