Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Sadhguru felt ecstasy in every cell of his body during his spiritual awakening. I think that's important. Often I get the impression that when people describe spiritual awakening it's some mental experience of oneness which ironically sounds more like detachment from the material world. What Sadhguru described was an immersion with the material world both his body and the outside world as one.

Rudolf Steiner described how we humans have become totally entrapped in the mineral kingdom, in the material world, with our intellect as a separate abstraction-making device. That's also a form of immersion with the material but the opposite of spiritual awakening. That's probably why spirituality is often described as an escape from the material. The problem with that is that it's a form of spiritual bypassing where we swing from one polar opposite in the form of materialism to the other polar opposite of "pure" spirit. What is needed it seems to me is an integration where spirit becomes infused into our material experience.