Modern Spirituality is Profoundly Wrong About the Self
A deep dive into the world of spiritual gurus, and what religious writings really say about the self and the way to deliverance
Contents:
I- The state of modern spirituality
II- The questions of the human condition
III- Real spirituality
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I — The State of Modern Spirituality
It’s trendy to imagine the self does not exist. Everyone in the world of spirituality from Eckhart Tolle to Rupert Spira, even to the torch bearer of the new atheists and meditation endorser Sam Harris, in fact anyone imbibing the Westernising of Eastern religious ideas has come to fancy that all they are is pure consciousness waiting to be realised.
Yet what can this possibly mean? Spira, to name one, says: “the illusion of separation arises when we believe that the one infinite consciousness is limited to the body-mind. When we identify solely with the body-mind, we create the illusory ego or separate self. Upon investigation, however, this separate self is never found. The reality lies in the one infinite, indivisible, and unnameable whole that underlies all appearances.”
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