|
| |
| | Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism - excerpts |
 | | I seem to be living in a spiritual junkyard. | | | Spiritual pride, for example, is as much a problem in the theistic disciplines as in Buddhism. | | | The interpreter is ego in the role of spiritual advisor. |
|
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/cutting.htm
|
|
| |
| | Chapter 4: Kurzweil’s Impoverished Spirituality |
| | Machine spirituality is the spirituality of self-realization, not the spirituality of an active God who freely gives himself in self-revelation and thereby transforms the beings with which he is in communion. | | | The spiritual experience of a machine is necessarily poorer than the spiritual experience of a being that communes with God. | | | A spiritual materialism is now possible, and with it comes the view that we are spiritual machines. |
|
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0497.html?m=21
|
|
| |
| | 20 questions about Spiritual Materialism |
| | A: Yeah, you don't have to be a high-roller to be in the Fellowship of Spiritual Materialists. | | | He was a Spiritual Materialist and didn't even know it. | | | It is our goal to bring the joy of Spiritual Materialism to anyone who is interested. |
|
http://www.galactic-trading.com/20.htm
|
|
| |
| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Materialism |
| | It is diametrically opposed to Spiritualism and Idealism, which, in so far as they are one-sided and exclusive, declare that everything in the world is spiritual, and that the world and even matter itself are mere conceptions or ideas in the thinking subject. | | | Against this domination of Materialism among high and low there set in towards the end of the nineteenth century a reaction, which was due in no small measure to the alarming translation of the materialistic theory into practice by the socialists and anarchists. | | | He says: "The disintegrating influence of Haeckelism on the spiritual life of the masses comes, not from the consequences which his conception of eternal things calls forth, but from the Darwinian thesis that there is no purpose in nature. |
|
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10041b.htm
|
|
| |
| | Revisiting the Spiritual in Art. Donald Kuspit. |
| | The spiritual is a force to be reckoned with. | | | For them the spiritual effect of art--the sense of spiritual intimacy it can achieve--is a case of misplaced materialism, that is, a naive misreading of art’s physicality. | | | For Kandinsky, the spiritual attitude exists in and through its opposition to the materialistic attitude, with which it is at war, just as the internal necessity that informs--indeed, drives--the spiritual attitude exists in and through its opposition to the external necessity that motivates the materialistic attitude. |
|
http://www.bsu.edu/web/jfillwalk/BrederKuspit/RevisitingSpiritual.html
|
|
| |
| | "Spiritual Growth" |
| | Materialism came to the fore during the Enlightenment in France which saw a strong opposition to what was viewed as the superstition of the religious establishment, and many would suggest that materialism became the driving force of Western culture. | | | The contrast to materialism is what we call "spirituality." Spirituality is an affirmation that what matters most is not that which can be seen or touched or measured, but the imponderables like meaning, love, truth, beauty. | | | One dimension of this resurgence of the spiritual has been a flocking to fundamentalist churches which offer a supernatural certainty, which encourage their adherents to reject the science which has been linked to materialism and believe in a world view which satisfied our ancestors two millennia ago. |
|
http://www.uurockford.org/sermons/s98-09.htm
|
|
| |
| | The Hindu : Mastering materialism |
| | From a spiritual perspective materialism is a throw-back to the pre-Magellan era in the geography of the soul. | | | Hospitality is its counterpart in the culture of spirituality. | | | Materialism, as against material progress, is incompatible with our spiritual destiny because it makes life subservient to the amenities for living. |
|
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/07/15/stories/13150611.htm
|
|
| |
| | Materialism and Spiritual Depression |
| | We call it materialism, the tyrannically monistic belief that everything in the universe is reducible to one kind of stuff, one story, one reality. | | | Second, deathbed visions have positive spiritual and religious significance. | | | It is a well-documented fact that dying people sometimes sense the presence of God, see transcendent visions, and undergo remarkable spiritual transformations. |
|
http://www.parapsi.com/phil-depression.html
|
|
| |
| | Friends Journal -- April 2001, Barounis |
| | They nourish a spiritual greed that reduces the best that is within us -- wisdom, compassion, forgiveness, spirituality -- to the status of mere commodities to be purchased in the service of self-fulfillment. | | | Authenticity is another value that is at odds with spiritual materialism. | | | It is but to suggest that a commercial model of buying and selling should not be allowed to encroach upon the most sacred and deeply human realm of our spiritual life and relationship to God. |
|
http://www.friendsjournal.org/contents/2001/04april/barounis.html
|
|
| |
| | How Have We Been Blind For This Long? |
| | The Stairway to Heaven: Materialism and the Church | | | Neo-Humanism: an ecological and spiritual reformulation of humanism. | | | Ethiopia is the metaphysical location where the spiritual and physical bind. |
|
http://religiousconsultants.com/god/materialism.htm
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism |
| | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > Philosophy | | | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > General | | | This influential spiritual classic offers a presentation of Buddhist teachings accessible to seekers of any faith. |
|
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570629579
|
|
| |
| | Spiritual Materialism and the Sacraments of Consumerism |
| | Another form of religious consumerism is the desire to rack up spiritual experiences, like seeing nimitta (signs, images), visiting heaven and hell realms, and going into deep meditative states of absorption. | | | Apart from security in their minds, humans have a deeper need, and that is to transform into a "new person." The Religion of Consumerism has both rituals and practices which bring about this transformation. | | | There are many people "seeking" religion who are bothered by all the fuss surrounding auspicious objects but unfortunately they are still influenced by consumerism. |
|
http://www.bpf.org/tsangha/phaisan1.html
|
|
| |
| | Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1367 |
| | Now, illusion is spirit of spiritual nature and everything that ever exists can be explained as a spiritual illusion... | | | Our inherent sense of spiritual unity with each other and with all of nature has been replaced with nonsensical arguments about immaculate conceptions, days of judgment, yugas, bardos, and how many hells there are. | | | Spirituality invites us to linger...with curiosity and openness, and a relaxed fearlessness the Buddhists call 'tranquil abiding.'" This seems to me an outstanding formulation for discussing spirituality among Unitarian Universalists. |
|
http://www.nonduality.com/hl1367.htm
|
|
| |
| | Realization.org: Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century |
| | The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi | | | The Shambhala Sun asked nine prominent people to list their favorite spiritual books of the twentieth century. | | | Realization.org: Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century |
|
http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0041.htm
|
|
| |
| | SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM AND BUDDHISM |
| | An authentic glimpse into the unfathomable depths of the spiritual ocean. | | | This program with the late Chogyam Trungpa originated from the historic "Meetings of the Ways" spiritual radio series broadcast in San Francisco during the early seventies. |
|
http://www.newdimensions.org/audio-books/1402.shtml
|
|
|
