Spiritually shallow

The empire of Nothingness is taking over all aspects of human life including the spiritual world. This morning, during our chats over coffee, Emanuela admitted a certain embarrassment when she feels associated with the "newage" world. 

What makes her, and me too, associated with it, is the interest in what could be labeled as spirituality. What embarrasses her is the superficiality and unawareness of those who gravitate around it. What I'm trying to say is that the same decadent characteristics are everywhere around us and do not concern specific "industries" only.

Unfortunately, superficiality is sparing nothing. You find yourself surrounded by people who believe they harbor the same interests as you and feel alternative while what they think is spirituality is nothing more than a naff outer mask. They talk to you without seeing you, they do not communicate but repeat phrases by others without having understood them.

They are unconsciously convinced that "understanding" is one of the many commodities that can be purchased. Commodified awareness comes to you through techniques that you learn by doing courses; it is transmitted to you by some teacher/guru of whom you have become a follower; it comes to you by following some particular diet (clearly, if for example you are  vegan you are certainly some evolutionary step above the carnivorous killers); for some, practicing certain gymnastic exercises instead of others leads you to be more aware; for others, the spirit world has to do with clothing choices; and for some others it has to do with an attitude of "we love each other" seasoned with phrases of the same intellectual and emotional weight as those found in Baci Perugina.

I would think that perhaps awareness and spirituality have to do with sincere work on oneself, that it has to do with the daily commitment to see with different eyes, that it approaches a common sense, that it has to do with the sensitivity that can only have those who are rooted in the present,  that perhaps it is something that has more to do with interiority and not with something to be flaunted on the outside, that feeling "differently" is more about your personal charisma rather than what you wear or what you eat.

m.m.