It is so clear that the materialist/cause and effect paradigm has taken over as a thorough and complete definition of reality. Of course in every day life it is just about all we see. Yeah, there are “religious/spiritual kooks” out there who claim Jesus, or whomever, is the only path to God and true understanding. These folks are the “fundamentalists” that we have all been brainwashed to fear, hate, and thoroughly disregard. They are a threat to the conforming mainstream paradigm. Then there are spiritual folks who for the most part stay under the radar. They are relatively harmless and most people (probably most) don’t have too much trouble with their woo-woo way of seeing things—love is the truth, and kindness and care is the foundation of good people and a good life. Most people are ok with that. This common form of spirituality, however, is about all the deviation from a materialist cosmology the majority of people are willing to accommodate. God forbid (pun intended) that any of these people interfere with reality.
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