We are in a time of extreme spiritual poverty, and it’s killing us.
I have spent the last few years away from the rush and stresses of the “real world”. Even though I live in Washington, D.C., I have managed to create a life for myself that is focused on spiritual pursuits. I’ve left the corporate, academic, and social climbing life behind. However, sometimes I get a glimpse of my old life — and last week was one of those times. I attended a classic “networking” event. My faith in humanity went downhill.
The event was full of interesting, highly educated, and successful people. The creme of the crop, really. They were gathered to speak about the international focus and future of a university program, and most of those in the audience had attended said university. There was a presentation I managed to sit through, even though it was mainly in a language that is foreign to me. Despite the language barrier, I got the main idea pretty well — they were concerned about high academic standards and the image of the university as one of the best in the world.
And yet, there was something bothersome to me about this whole situation. The university in question, and the native country of all those present, was under attack at that very moment from its bordering neighbor. Bombs fall, and academics still put on suits and present ideas to each other that seem completely disconnected from the real problem facing society. It’s like they want to maintain a fantasy world where everything is within control because they got a degree and represent a well-known institution.
We need smart people to help us reach a state of Utopia, that’s true. But when these smart people aren’t living in the “real world” with the rest of us, it all seems like a dream when they try to devise solutions to humanity’s problems. We’re living in a state of extreme spiritual poverty — people care more about the image of building a better society than about doing the real work. They can’t get their hands and suits dirty on the front lines, after all.
It is unimaginable to me that they wouldn’t be using their highly developed wits to workshop ideas on saving the world, providing aid in wartime, and creating world peace. Instead, they spoke as if society was going on just the way it always had been — they focused on what all the smart people should be doing to get diplomas and produce intellectual content that the masses can consume. Despite all the horrors going on at their doorstep, they still want to make sure people get to graduate from university and get the best jobs in top companies and government agencies, just to keep the world going the way it has been, in a system that is breaking down as we speak.
How can this be? Why are people focused on luxuries and comfortable living when they could be using their resources and intelligence to solve real-world problems? Why won’t people acknowledge a crisis state?
It hit me. People feel disconnected from each other, and therefore, disconnected from their own place in humanity. People don’t understand that the noblest thing we can do while we’re here is to set the ego aside and sacrifice our needs for the greater good. There is not much more spiritual than that which can be offered by human life.
When we spend our time and effort drinking wine in a seminar room with people dressed in business attire, talking about a fairy tale world where people are still pursuing academic excellence while bombs fall on buildings around them, we’ve lost the plot. This has reached an extreme state of dissonance — and many of us in societies around the world are on the road to this same extreme. Our spiritual poverty enables this.
People don’t know what’s important anymore. It’s time for a spiritual revolution. We must stop two things to achieve a great awakening:
- Pursuing comforts, luxuries, status, and material possessions we have no use for.
- Letting the ego tell us what we should be spending time on.
We have to remember that our lives are not just ours. We’re here for a purpose — and for a very short time. Our lives are so short that there’s really no time for anything but focusing on world peace, creating utopia, and healing other human beings. You’d think that people living in a war zone would know this very well, but the ego loves to pull us toward a sense of self-importance and comfort, even in times of tragedy and alarm.
We’re scared to let go of the status we’ve built for ourselves, which we think defines us. We’re scared to let go of personal securities so that we can work on securing a prosperous future for all of us. It’s just the nature of the human ego.
This needs to change — now. We have gone too far with consumerism and self-preservation. Humanity is in a state of extreme spiritual poverty, even as it thinks its value has increased with the increase of its material productions. We equate human progress with the increase of all the crap we can buy. How ironic.
But mass-produced plastic cannot replace vintage, substantial material. And giving out useless diplomas to the intellectual elite cannot replace empathy and purpose.
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Emily is a spiritual writer, coach, and psychic with a background in philosophy. She is a single mom living in Maryland, USA, and she’s lived in many countries around the world.
