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.
I keep spiritual and material things separate, but that's mostly just a side effect of me being a very material minded person. I see politics entirely materialistically (and always have, which is why it seems inevitable that I would become a Marxist). Despite the fact that I keep becoming more and more spiritual over time, I'm skeptical of spiritual things because I instinctively see things as bullshit if I don't see how they relate to the material world. The link between spirituality and the material world is a pretty weak one, so the link between poltitics and spirituality is also very weak.
As a result of this skepticism combined with the fact I'm still a rather spiritual person, (I don't even know if that is the right way to describe that) spiritual and material things are very seprated. I have a lot of trouble talking about spirituality because as soon as I start talking too much I slip into a material mindset and spiritual stuff then seems too fuzzy to talk about. I don't even know how I would define spirituality because of this.
I haven't read much in the way of spiritual stuff either because of this, it all seems like kooky bullshit, and I have trouble relating it with my experiences.
Edit: Oh, I didn't answer your questions. I meditate regularly, usually daily, in an unplanned way. Fasting makes thinking about spiritual things much easier, and also it's the easiest way to lose weight in my experience, so I used to do it often. I haven't much recently but I should. I am definitely working on my spirituality, it's something I feel I have just started touching and it seems important and worthwhile.