Is our spirituality blinding us to the path to enlightenment?

Denial and prejudices are deeply ingrained in all of us. We are a mashed up ball of fears, limitations, anxieties and fears, masquerading as intellect. My post on Australia Day is an example. While i mean to offend no one, it is easy for my point to be missed as someone takes offence. In an enlightened world one is offended as they choose not to take it. It is here in our human condition where we are all desperately struggling for love and acceptance that we misread and react to other people's opinions.

Jane Elliot carried out some fascinating research, where she would take groups of people and break them into two groups, those with blue eyes and those with brown eyes and began treating each group differently. It took some time, eventually the participants woke up to their own hidden forms of racism, bigotry and the other forms of discrimination. This was with American participants.

When she applied the same techniques in the UK, she received a far different response. The British in the most cases were blind to their discrimination as it was so deeply ingrained, they never challenged it. The point was totally missed and the participants began ganging up on Jane.

Wearing hippy, spiritual clothes, collecting crystals and playing calming music is all wonderful, it does not however make us better people or go anywhere near changing our destructive patterning that is killing our planet and risking the future generations to a less enriched way of life. Much of what many of us have believed for a very long time about personal growth and the whole New Age movement, is now beginning to be exposed as another big lie and a way to control the masses.

There has always been those who wish to dominate others, look at Ghangis Khan, Napeleon, The British Empire and the current American Empire. There are those who work only for their own benefit, maybe we are in that camp. On a smaller level we are each in a fight for enough love, enough acknowledge, the need to feel important.

If we were to break down all the human insecurities into one issue, it would be the need to be accepted. I believe this underlies all of our insecurities and fears. It leads to war and famine, cruelty, and the deprivation of the human race. We all play our part, unwilling to admit to it.

Each of us could break the chains that bind us into poverty on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels with one simple act. There is a way to free ourselves, the hard part for most of us is we are waiting for the cavalry to ride over the hill and save us. They are not coming, it is up to each and everyone of us. Our salvation is in our own hands. Religion and its pseudo love child the New Age Movement are not going to come to the rescue.

For those locked in the desperate seeking of acceptance this is a hard reality check. Our own denial of our abilities and greatness has trapped us into believing someone will do it for us.

Many of us have fallen for the lies spread by all the religions.