The destructive response:
The widespread strenuous and anxiety-ridden way of unbridled nostalgia at a moderate time to breastfeed, it seems more and more people into various forms of escape move escapism is the scientific term for the goal is always.. the same: the gray and unbearably strained vorfindbaren banality of everyday life to escape.
wrote decades ago, the psychotherapist Rudolf ape-man, under the title "Sick in the company" a brief analysis, in which he enumerated the possibilities of escape:
• An escape route in the plays of life in the theater, which has a capture , in movies, on TV, in a dream boat or Black Forest clinic.
• It is also possible to hide the everyday life easier. These help alcohol, even more to flee into the dense experience paradise of drugs.
• Others are psychosomatic illness. This is one of the most socially rewarded and accepted forms of escape
• Also, the way in many a sect is covered by the alignment. Seen sects so special worlds, an alternative to the existing world, with strict orders and authorities, which enables its members, the release given the enormous complexity of life is becoming tiresome burden of freedom to be risky .
• Finally, the suicide of one of these forms of escape from the gray unbearable. The Viennese psychotherapist Erwin Ringel describes the path to suicide as a becoming ever more closely experienced the life-world. Narrowness and fear play into each other. Suicide is the last then himself by leaping into a new size.
If you have that right to dedicate what our modern culture, a kind of "präsuizidales Syndrome": because it is a pure worldly world level, with ninety or slightly more years of life - a time and a living room by seems only to occur life?
The creative answer:
There is next to the flight also rising. This has now got a name in research and is called "Respiritualisierung" or "return of religion".
It is a rebellion against the banality of a flat becoming unbearable, one-dimensional life. It is the revolt against the constant Klein BE, the many everyday derogatory executions. In addition, people rebel against the subtle reach of the people to the people. Since require high-tech medicine, which is a healthy person and use the entire technocracy to design the new creation. Modern economies in turn followed the growth of shareholder value, regardless of the economy on the people involved. The modern administration can turn to people about screening microchips into its genetic structure and his daily life until the last corner and follow sound out. What is man? Clonable biomass, a genetically to regenerating cells? Less value than the capital? Verplanbarer a case? Respiritualisierung may be the protest against such humiliation and exploitation of people.
We are already facing a key question of who owns the research has rarely been sufficient evidence. After all, there are useful clues. The question is what happens because in the course of Respiritualisierung? It is a phenomenology of these new spiritualities, which are on the rise. I'm trying out a few points:
search for Me: Modern people are going to their middle, I lost her. You are literally beside himself thrown to the periphery of the wheel of life. Respiritualisierung other hand, the search for the self, towards the middle, after contact with their own depth. It is the exodus to the ego, as the psychotherapist Hans-Willi Weis, the spiritual scene knows from personal experience, that search has after I called. To discover the self that thinks both his own dignity and self-confidence to recover, and that answers any culturally common devaluations and mental executions. The trail leads the seekers in different depths. Some end up self-satisfied with themselves, others continue to dig, however, and find themselves in archetypes learn to see themselves as God's mind to do it with a dignity that no one can take them longer. Even more: they thereby gain an unassailable to all requests from people trying to humans. They do in fact agree related back to God (which is one of the etymological meanings of religion) and therefore refuse to subject themselves to anything in the world. It must be recalled here that this is the reason why the religion is simply the last enemies of totalitarian systems. For religious people deny total access worldly powers (in politics, economy, consumption). Especially the supposedly non-political, the religion turns out to be here as a politically explosive. "Totalitarian" are also other systems: the consumption, the culture of having to have the culture of execution.
search for weaving and networking: Modern cultures isolate people. The positive side is the appreciation of individuality and freedom. The shadow, however, loneliness, isolation and psychological homelessness. In the course of Respiritualisierung people are looking for new interweaves and networks. These are found in very different ways. Some see themselves as one with the cosmos, others rely on ancient mystical traditions and experience to be a part of the divine, of the whole, the origin and beginning. Such cosmic and mystical experience are interwoven through the entry into supportive communities, where no only the dignity but a deep unity of all experience are central.
search for an ethics of total love, in many areas of modern life, in relationships, in offices, leisure, there is often a lifestyle that is not build. He is born of his own lack of self-worth, by the arrogance of others and more than offset by the small, yes or low Make the other. What is left behind is the respect for others, solidarity with others is ultimately the love. The culture of the "execution" has little stock of solidarity in love with each other. People feel like themselves from such a destructive way of life are covered. They also remember how they themselves are victims of such a degrading humiliation. Mutually respectful, beneficial and therefore building up synergies have become rare in communities and industrial relations. In contrast, however, desirable to those who have made a spiritual quest. Looking for a new ethic, an ethic of total love which goes up and does not executes. Vast said: to the others, to himself, to creation, to God. Such love, they feel, is just the action side of her being. Because of their origin, they are the loving start, they call God, owe, they also carry the possibility of how to be God lovers or become. There are now many managers who wonder how people can be given on such a spiritual quest with a new quality support. This question now no longer the old Christian churches alone. The willingness to support spiritual seekers, is found in many old and new religious movements and groups.
It has been common mitgesagt that not everything today in spiritual support to the "religious market" is to be found true, well, so salutary: Only the truth will set us free (Gal 5:1) . The old doctrine of discernment gets a new weight. However, it must be ensured that the child is not thrown out with the bath. Some say yes, that what announces itself as to new spirituality is of the devil's house and theologically objectionable. However, it is my position that any spiritual quest as a moment of serious human deserves respect. Searching is perhaps the strongest form of God's work in a man. Only those who move can also move up to God, and more particularly it can move there by God Himself to God as its origin and its source. Can definitely be further asked whether the proposed one-way or the best or the right one. Spirituality of modern criticism is a part Criticism of religion, around which is not today held Respiritualisierung: And that's in their best interests, I insist. Because nothing hurts more spiritual seekers, as if they have a way has been proved that does not lead to the goal of their ht Sehnsuc .
(source: Prof. Dr. Paul M. Zulehner: Megatrend religion - the religion of hand again?)
