Wild Return of spirituality or the need to belong to an organization flexible initiation.
Today it seems that many are interested in spirituality and it also appears that more than ever this spirituality is lived in very different ways. This in principle should be happy, but I also raises questions.
And I think this phenomenon return of spirituality is, for now, an ambiguous reality, as it may lead to different results, I think, first, you can help us live fully out of reductionism, but I suspect it may also lead to the rebirth of the most delirious irrationality of fundamentalist fanaticism or coarser. I do not think this was to rejoice.
In any case, it seems that it is increasingly clear is that the model technocratic and economistic logocentric in which we live is unsustainable and must be overcome.
is not surprising, therefore, that more people have experiences "spiritual" and look how to integrate them into their lives in an appropriate manner. Here are a variety of "solutions."
For many it is timed religious or spiritual institutions, only rely on the personal search and personal experience. From it, interpret religious traditions, the mix, the praise or disqualify your criteria.
Others said to be linked to a tradition without practice, without regard to the minimum rules of belonging to that tradition or not accept the fundamentals of it.
can be no doubt that in some cases true human and humanizing spiritual experiences among those who choose this route, but I think that is the way recommended.
Walk the World "spiritual" required to have a thread of Ariadne to subjectivism and narcissism are not swallowed whole "work" and without the assistance of a spiritual and tradition, this is very difficult. The easier it will fall into the "spiritual narcissism", which is called in Zen Zen disease (quietism in Christianity), which is characterized by a believing and "enlightened" by their experience and without submitting to the rules and the teachings of the traditional spiritual institutions and organizations. Other
fleeing the danger of spiritual narcissism entering organizations seek spiritual help to those who believe the only valid place to live spirituality. The organization is praised above all and end submission to the authorities of that organization it becomes the central point to avoid mistakes in their path. spiritual narcissism is reflected here by identifying with the organization that has all the truth and can not err in any case. To identify with the institution, the more we exalt the more I am praising myself . The organization has nothing to learn or be adapted to people and the times, but on the contrary. Not looking for spirituality as a transforming personal experience but as a form of personal identification, an ideology that gives them identity and ownership compared to others that are in error or persecute us (are lower). So the person is killed and spirituality and replaced by the robot under a religious uniform pattern, which gets the candy believe in truth and to be superior. Some seek their identity by buying a car or nice clothes, others seek to fill their inner emptiness with religious labels to distinguish them.
are also those who despise religion and seek a more mature spirituality, esotericism . For them, all religions are expressions of a Primordial Tradition itself and lead to the same experience. Living religions spirituality so warped and immature, are childish. There would therefore appear that joining an esoteric group that gave us the true experience reserved only for the elite.
I think this way of thinking forgets that every religion is a unique and transferable, although there are common elements that can be in harmony, mutual enrichment and understanding.
From my point of view, the division exoteric (external media) and esoteric (internal and elitist) must be overcome. The center of the traditions is not only the mystical esotericism (which has nothing to do with mysticism sentimental) or monastic dimension. The spiritual experience is not ultimately enlightenment, even if it involves an enlightening experience, but a lifestyle that is in everyday life in the small, in the simple, poor and ugly as the place par excellence of the mystery. Poverty is fertile called Cistercian. We loved
incomplete, fragmented, "fallen" and can not leave us alone in our situation. need a "blessing", the "grace", the "spiritual influence" coming from beyond the human world out of our situation, the worse it is "embodied" in our world through a physical and material reality . This is what makes religious and spiritual institutions, be strings of this influence and incarnate in the world. Naturally, the spiritual influence would also beyond the religious or spiritual.
I, therefore, the need to join a religious or spiritual organization, making it a flexible manner, taking the essence of his doctrine and its rules and, at the same time, recreating the tradition received without betray, from personal experience of spiritual truth that this tradition carries.
Join a tradition can never assume losing one's personality taking a prefabricated model or waive the personal way of living that tradition. Institutions or organizations must be spiritual, therefore, plural, and time through a set of common references, harmonized afford to live all his sensibilities. Want uniform too will kill the tradition, as well as forgetting the common elements and fall into pure subjectivism narcissistic. Both errors beset the wayfarer.
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