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Originally Posted by Lorelyen
Well, ok, it's not a joke if as you say 'it helps some people start'....but think about it for a moment: where's it leading them? Are they looking for a better heaven than described in Revelations (assuming they believe there's a heaven)? Are they ones of the 144,000 to be raptured as believed by the JWs?
Do they believe it's a realm of some sort hanging above the material earth? A compartment within them?...........And a dozen more questions that evade a simple issue: why choose it or anything else as a spiritual path?
What it's becoming is a new parochial and fashionable religion.
It seems to mislead people into believing that after about 800,000 years some magical thing is about to change human nature; turn them all into ethereal beings or something. Because though the toys get more expensive and the tech gets higher, the plight of humanity has advanced hardly a jot at all since it began.
The people who are laughing are the people who came up with the idea and are making money out of it.
So, hopefully once seekers start they'll realise that it isn't so easy to allow the spirit of themselves to shine through; to get rid of all their delusion; to own their problems; to live up to their higher principles....to drive their lives...
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I get what you are saying but I do think it's not a problem where it leads anyone as that's their journey.
If they can see through the Mount Everest high pile of spiritual bullcrap, it's good. They have some sort of critical thinking,
If not, it's still good. They will get there. Or elsewhere.
And yes, spirituality IS just another religion, searching for answers and a way out. I still think spending your money of any kind of spiritual, ezo humbug is still better than spending it on drugs or whatever.
I am a newbie in this but I always thought I try to talk about my interests, but it is up to the other person how to react.