Do any of you feel spirituality is linked to your socialism or vice versa? Do you practice things like meditation or fasting? Do you reject materialism? Is this an ongoing personal development or something you feel you've attained to a degree you're happy with?
Curious peoples thoughts on this.
No, but socialism helped me better understand my percieved lack of spirituality.
Yes, I meditate and I have been intermittent fasting for almost 5 years now.
No.
Ongoing. According to my personal philosophy it is silly to look at anything and assume it's reached its final form. There is a continual synthesis of what was and what is to create the idea of "material conditions" needed to examine what is to be done and what will be.
It seems to me that "spirituality" is where you exhaust your psychic energy and how much you vent off (to use Cushvlog terms.) "Religion" is the practice of using a hierarchical structure to guide that psychic energy in a particular direction. Many ostensibly non-spiritual people may be truthful in saying they don't believe in organized religion; though there is still a big other out there that influences their material world in a godlike fashion. That may be man itself, the government, the markets, conspiratorial thinking, social expectations, peer perception, etc. I believe all people are "spiritual" in that they pour out emotional energy at the alter of "the big other" in some fashion.