There are many points to bring up, so I have no doubt that my ideas are going to intertwine and become a mass chaos, so bear with me  I generally speak using stream of consciousness, because I tend to find it a lot easier than to plan what I am going to say
Also remember that EVERYTHING I post is my own opinion which I am not trying to force upon everybody else since everybody has a different perception of this subjective reality
When the average person thinks about the word spirituality, most likely the first things that come to their minds are images from movies of buddha, thoughts of nonsense, people sitting and doing nothing in a weird position, and the over-commercialised 'god'.
This is the first part of the problem. Religion and spirituality have become commercialised to the point where Jews for Jesus knocks on your door asking for money, and you can go to the toy store and buy a jesus action figure. Essentially, it's all become a big joke to everybody.
BECAUSE society has begun subtely 'teaching' people that religion and spirituality are a joke, it's hard to bring up the subject with most people because they will already have preset responses to it. They'll instantly become closed-minded, putting all sorts of symbols in place of what is actually being said by the other person.
Beyond that, society and the government constantly embeds in our heads that the world is a very 'real' place (hey you can knock on wood and feel and hear and see it!) with set boundaries that by no means can you ever go beyond, and if you try then whatever you will find is wrong.
The 'system' of needing to get up every day and go to work, make money to 'live', pay your bills, etc. etc., are all in place in order to create a set order (hence, the 'system'). Obviously, the government needs order because order creates a sense of peace ... it keeps people grounded in an objective reality so that no radical thoughts can be born (remember how scared the government was by LSD in the 60's? It sure wasn't because of whether it could 'fry' your brain ... )
The government makes you fulfill obligations all the time so that you are constantly kept watch on not to do anything that threatens their authority, which even means contesting whether that chair in your field of view is really a chair or not.
However, for multiple reasons the government LETS you do such things as drink alcohol at 21 and smoke at 18, because, first of all, it's a big profit for them. Secondly, it APPEASES the people, because they now have a drug they are ALLOWED to take in order to calm themselves after a hard day of work. Beyond that, you can go to a store and buy a million choices of materialistic things to keep you 'happy' ... for about 5 seconds until the 'new' toy comes out ...
Essentially, the government created a worldwide puzzle where every piece fits according to the way the GOVERNMENT wants you to live.
Life isn't necessarily going to school, learning 'concensus education', going to college, picking a major, and doing that major everyday of your life in order to 'live'. That's only ONE path of life, and it's the path the government tells you is the right path to take -- because it's so organised.
Now to show how this ties back in to the problem with said people and spirituality. Spirituality is it's own path of life, and this path is not any more 'pure' or 'real' than the path that Mr. CEO is taking, it's just different. It's only the path less travelled.
The average person cannot even CONCIEVE that anything beyond this reality exists, much like how somebody who has never tripped before can fathom what a million years of peace or hell can feel like. So if they cannot even percieve it, how could they ever experience it?
Secondly, they are drawn in by the media and society and the government, to essentially become no different than robots. What do I mean by this? Talk to the average person about drugs, and he will spew out lines from the government as if Uncle Sam himself was talking to you. The person in front of you isn't really talking, he's reacting the way the government TOLD him to react. Most of the time, he won't even hear or CARE about your opinion, because Uncle Sam told him that whatever you tell him is 'WRONG'. He cannot fathom that you can ever be right, because that switch in his brain was most likely permanently flipped.
The government is constantly finding new ways to keep people satisfied with what I consider 'bare minimum reality', by doing as little as they can. They don't want anybody to sit and meditate all day, because they consider that 'unproductive'. Productive just means you are appeasing society with your efforts. One ant in a giant ant hill, all doing the same thing for the same queen ant. The government's way of telling you that by sitting and meditating or going for a hike in the woods when you 'should be doing your work' is wrong is by saying that you are UNPRODUCTIVE. Yet another switch in your brain flipped by the government, not by you, to tell you that what you are doing is wrong.
If the government is flipping all these switches for people, then no longer do people have any control over themselves ... but they don't KNOW that they don't have control over themselves because the government told them that they do have choices. They just are, again, blind to the fact that their choices far far exceed what they can even comprehend.
I can go on for a long time, but I don't feel like making your eyes bleed
I hope this was worth your time, I don't often post in S&P but I'm going to start now because I am so into it all ... comments/critiques/anything?
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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. - Galatians 5:16
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