Mr_Satan
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This is an honest question. Many expect that soon, there will have been enough people who have raised their consciousness, that a critical mass will be reached. The force of this mass of enlightened or partly enlightened people will the be strong enough to bring about positive changes on the earth, in politics, business, health, education, art, etc.
Many of the practices of those who claim higher/expanded consciousness come from eastern countries like tibet, china, india and nepal. Those countries, which originally were the homes of spiritual practices have been far behind the west in standards of living, health, medicine, housing, social services, education, food production, etc.
As well, at the time that spirituality was at it's peak in western europe was during the dark ages, under catholicism. The grip of the dark ages was broken by the imporation of new ideas from the arabs in the middle east by the knights templars. The returning templars put into practice new and beautiful stone construction. It started a construction boom that flowed across europe. As well, they introduced a form of capitalism and credit.
It was capital, stone and work which reversed the decline, not the spiritual. It appears that the rational materialist culture benefits civilisation more than does the mystical. Don't get me wrong, i like the spiritual part. For instance, i had a great qigong session today, as i watched the sun set over the river. Should the material hard science take precedence over the mystical? Is a 100% materilaist society better than a 100% spirtualist society? If so, why then the need for the quantum leap of consciousness?
MS not the devil's advocate
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