Not Only About Possessions
Materialism is certainly not only
just about wanting and liking to have a lot of material objects.
It is really a way of thinking,
which makes us to feel one then at. Materialism is really about how a person thinks.
The materialistic person thinks in
matter and only about matter. The materialistic person sees life only in terms
of matter. That is everyone and everything is only a block of inanimate matter
or material to such a person.
The materialistic person answers
the questions of life, or finds explanation for the events of life in matter.
That is why scientists can be very materialistic because they only look for
explanations in the interactions of matter. The interesting thing is that such
a scientist could have a very humble abode with a small number of things,
perhaps just as much as would a monk.
Only Matter
Materialism only believes in matter
and in doing so denies the spirit, the spiritual, the esoteric, the occult etc.
The materialistic people still believe, however they believe in matter and on
top of this they are very intellectual. They have to be, because the only way
to find answers to the questions of life is by using the mind to analyse the
way matter interacts with other bodies of matter. Of course though there are so
many things that they can not explain being limited to using the mind instead
of the consciousness and seeing the physical reality of things, instead of the
psychological and esoteric realities.
Intellectualism and materialism
tend to go hand in hand.
Conclusion
In conclusion we can be very
materialistic and have very few things and perhaps not even have a penny to our
name. Materialism is all in our mind, rather in our way of thinking. We could
on the other hand have many things and lots of money and be spiritual.
We need a balance between matter
and the spirit. If we fall into the materialistic side of things we come to
ignore the spiritual and lead a meaningless life, and if we fall only into the
spiritual side of things our life becomes very disorganised and troublesome, so
as always need a balance.
Karl Marx and Communism
Karl Marx and communism did
humanity a great disservice when he introduced the "materialistic
dialectic'' as Master Samael says. This was a movement or a philosophy of life based
totally in seeing life and everyone and everything essentially as blocks of
matter. Which is highly unbalanced and it created many problems as we all know
well looking at what happened in the communistic countries.
The fact is that now those
countries that were under a communistic regime have now abandoned communism
because it failed, because the human being has three realities and therefore
three needs and communism only took care of one type of need, it failed in
nourishing all the needs of the human being. Capitalism is not perhaps the
fairest system but it gives people the freedom to at least in the way that they
can nourish themselves in all three types of needs, that is physical ,
psychological and spiritual needs.
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