Materialism??? .... :P

The mystery and magic have been taken out of life. The sense of wonder and the miraculous has gone. They have been replaced by a bitter resignation to the prevalent view that the universe is a cold and mechanistic place. The theory of materialism has taken over and even people with a religious bent are affected by this general mood.

- on a sidenote, I want to clarify something about the term materialism. I had heard this term a lot over the course of my life , generally used in terms to refer to our society as a materialistic one and so on. I had always assumed that it meant that people these days are concerned with gathering materials, (material wealth, things etc) . I have only recently come to a deeper meaning of this. I shouldn’t say deeper, since it has been out there for people interested in this subject, but for general people like myself, it was not generally understood to be as such. This is referred to as the Age of Materialism primarily because the prevailing world view as espoused by the leading scientists, intellectuals etc regards this "Objective" Reality as completely MATERIAL. i.e. all things can be described in terms of their physical characteristic, environment, breakdowns ,in essence materials, down to the molecules and atoms. It does not suppose any explanation for any phenomena or event that goes beyond this and that cannot be measured explicitly in the laboratory. This world view started taking prevalence since the dawn of the Newtonian Age, when Newton attempted to describe the forces of nature in purely mathematical forms. Now granted, this may have felt like a wise move at the time, what with all the superstition and so on prevalent at the time and Europe having come out of the Dark Ages and so on. But the path that scientists have gone down since that time has taken us completely to the other end of the spectrum.


In essence, we have taken the absence of evidence, as evidence of absence. If one needs ANY evidence of the magical in their lives, they should look up the term synchronicity and see if it applies to any experiences in their life. Almost inevitably, everyone has those few experiences where multiple events happened, beyond their control, in almost a synchronized manner to produce a desired outcome. And as is common, I myself have in the past passed them off as JUST a coincidence. However, now that I’ve started noticing them more and not just dismissing them, they have started occurring more and more frequently; to the point where I can now say my INTENTION for a particular outcome often leads to this chain of events that I could never have foreseen.

Ok so I don’t know how this post has evolved to where it is. Just some thoughts I had that I wanted to get out and now I have to go!