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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Materialism
Materialism: The doctrine that nothing
exists except matter and its movements and modifications. Also, the doctrine that consciousness and will are wholly due to the
operation of material agencies. A tendency to lay stress on the material aspect of the objects represented. A tendency to prefer
material possessions and physical comfort to spiritual values; a way of life based on material interests. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: Who said that being comfortable, safe, warm, well fed,
well clothed, well informed, well entertained, healthy, etc. creates our misery? How many people in the world haven’t got even a
basic material level of shelter, food, water, education, medicine, etc – and is this not real misery?
This nonsense about the evils of materialism is put out by those miserable souls who
have a vested interest in human beings believing that existence on earth is essentially a suffering existence – because it
always has been, it always should be. All of spirituality, both Eastern and Western, teaches that human existence is essentially a
suffering existence and also that ultimate peace is only possible after physical death – i.e. anywhere but here and anytime but
now. Added to this, the modern day religion of Environmentalism preaches that there is far too much material comfort and its
believers actively work to deny others in less developed countries the material comforts they themselves enjoy.
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I started my search
for freedom peace and happiness on the understanding that despite the fact that I had been successful in ‘real’ world terms I
was neither free, nor peaceful nor happy. For me the question was ‘How come I have everything I could desire and yet I was
neither happy nor harmless?’ I discovered that to blame materialism for human malice and sorrow is to believe the spiritual
viewpoint that life on earth is ultimately unsatisfactory, and to see physical comfort and sensual enjoyment as a sign of
indulgence and evil.
What I eventually discovered was that the answer lay
in an area considered by all to be impossible to question – the very feelings, emotions and instinctual passions that humans
beings hold so dear.
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