Intellectual and Emotional Spirituality          BeiYin

With interest I am watching the phenomena of more and more sophisticated growing 'spirituality' especially in the Internet. The cyber space seems to be to best play- and training ground for those who are developing their 'spirituality'. As all those people are highly identified with their mind or/and their emotions, and on the other hand the need to go further than their personal limitations, so concepts which existed since long ago, were developed by present thinkers in such a way, that hardly there is any space uncovered. This has happened already in the middle age when monks were discussing about the highly sophisticated spiritual question how many angles can rest on the peak of a needle. For us now this sounds absurd, funny or naive, but there hasn't changed that much. In our days people are discussing about enlightenment, karma, meditation techniques, freedom, consciousness, big bang, or whatever and they feel very 'spiritual', especially when it goes together or parallel with emotional identifications, images about angels, love, vibrations, energy, etc. highly developed by many New Age thinkers and feelers. All live in their special, precious world of images, they are nourished by it and they feed back into the big rose cloud by giving their energy into it. They feel so good, - uplifted into spheres where they can forget the cruel reality of earthen ground... Giving thankfully back into the intellectual and emotional pool because they get their self confirmation out of it. From there they get all their security, intellectual and emotional. Well, I am not judging or criticizing our society, I am just reflecting about it and pointing out some aspects. I don't want to attack anybody, although people might feel offended, because I am touching their most precious property they own... What people own is their reality, with this they are satisfied. Are they? I guess not, because there is still the silent longing in the background of their existence. A yearning for another reality, which is not limited to one's personality. There are people on this planet who are striving forward to another 'reality', they have a new measurement for values and so their attitude towards other fellow human beings, the surrounding and to themselves are different. Those people are creating new spaces to live, with different conditions, responsibly relating to their environment and the people they live with under daily circumstances.
We have build such a space and there exist a physical manifestation of it, not just an image in the cyber space as a wishful dream. It is called "FalconBlanco". A place for about 20 people in midst unspoiled nature, with easy resources to nourish a group of people and with the possibility to live a creative daily life, which might be simple and not sophisticated, but uncomplicated and fulfilling, because of the trust and the will to go forward into unknown spaces of one's own existence. We can't lose, only win.