I just want to take this opportunity to point out that there is no such thing as “spirituality.” Doesn’t exist, has no meaning. It’s just a name for “doing what I want to do and feeling that the universe somehow smiles on me for doing it. - Alan Jacobs

There is an indefinable something in this I want to agree with.  It's the appropriation of spiritual things as an excuse for consumerism, me-first, self-pleasing mysticality.

It's like the heavy focus on John 10:10 "I have come that they may have life, life in all its fulness" - you can see how that verse can be taken in a whole bunch of hedonistic directions.  I notice that one of the most hit articles on this site is titled "Life in all its fullness".  I am suspicious about that.

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the hills are alive with the sound of... Celtic pan pipes??
written by Nik, July 20, 2010

In the end, consumerism will eat itself, but before it does, it will gobble up 'spirituality'. I wonder if the word, like 'liberal' and 'fundamentalist', has been hijacked and now means something completely different? There was a time in the 90's and early noughties when publishers would cyncially slap the word 'Celtic' onto products - the most bizarre of which that passed my way was a CD 'Celtic pan pipes'... Now, while I know that there was some desert dad and mum influence happening in the 5-9th centuries, and that the Celts were great travellers, I still have to wonder if the CD was possibly just stretching it a teeeeensy bit!!!

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