The Illusion of Spirituality

Is that we think we are trying to save our separate souls, when in reality we are trying to save a single soul, a human soul.

Emeka Alozie
Chocolate Socrates
5 min readAug 21, 2018

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They say life is a feeling, or so everyone tells you each day. They say do what you feel. Find what you love. See what it is you’re passionate about in the world. And go do it, go seek after it, go find it. Go find a way to seek after love only to have your heart broken. Go find a way to gain all the riches in the world only to realize you care so little about the people you spend it on. Go find a way to have all the beautiful woman in your life only to realize they only saw you as ugly.

So what is the point? What does this have to do with spirituality.

It’s that spirituality is not about the soul, but about the soul longing after itself. Longing after the emptiness it feels when it is incapable of experiencing the reality of life.

All this time, your family and friends, teachers or loved ones, they’ve left out one inevitable truth to the reality of what it means to be human.

They never tell you the body we live in is dead and the feeling of life is our separation of the mind with our knowledge of God.

How desperate have we all become in our darkest hours, when in our minds we long for something that our body cannot feel. How happy have we all been, when in minds we know nothing at all but within our bodies we feel it all.

The beauty of life is not in how we choose to accept it but it’s in the search of truth we think we find within ourselves juxtaposed by the truth of the world around us that is ever pervasive and ever present and ever powerful.

There is no such thing as spirituality, the spirit does not where it belongs either, so it exhaust humanity and leaves us tired, and empty, broken and disheartened, longing but never satisfied, hungry but never filled, thirsty yet never quenched. The spirit has nothing, it is truly alone. No wonder we crave and long after things that after we have it we still want for more.

The spirit has made the body a slave, and exerts itself upon every fiber and resilience it possess to limit us, to remind us frequently, how we are only human, and how we must forgive ourselves, because the spirit is unwilling to forgive itself.

Remember, the spirit can only see the beauty of the world if it has the eyes of the body, but at the same time the eyes of the body cannot see the emptiness of the spirit. The spirit is empty or void because how can the body know the image of the spirit, if it is only through the eyes of the body, the spirit can see.

So when the eye sees what can it fill space with, if it is devoid of any meaning to recognize to itself.

And if each spirit must recognize itself in the body of another, how miserable a spirit becomes when each body is incapable of recognizing itself, because the spirit of God within each has been divided among them all equally.

How can that person over there be like this person over here, so already the spirit is divided. Because the body once empty came into being, and after some time it will fade away once more, because the spirit only has so much time to realize that DEATH comes the least you expect it.

The illusion of spirituality today is that we are all convinced that we can save our souls, when in reality we are trying to save a single soul, a human soul.

I mean think about it, how can a spirit know it exist, unless it creates a body in order to see it itself. I mean seeing is believing.

But how can a spirit see itself, unless it has to see other bodies.

In other words, if everything is a reflection of itself, than the body and the spirit are one, only when the opposite of itself simultaneously exist when it nullifies the existence of itself.

The spirit can know the body, but it cannot know, the body knows the spirit. But if the spirit knows the body, and the body no longer knows itself, than doesn’t it become the same original spirit. Isn’t that what free will would like?

And if there are many bodies, wouldn’t they all return back to the same spirit.

Even if you could save your own body it wouldn’t know it is saved unless it knows everybody, but what is easier to know — every body or know nothing at all.

So I say, spirituality is an illusion. If you want to save the world. You can’t save yourself. You have to save the others, because how can you save yourself, if you were born out of the spirit. You can’t know your body, because the same spirit can be in any number of these bodies! No wonder we’re so social. We have a meaning to life. Seeking after our soul yet never knowing we’ve encountered it.

The spirit of God isn’t within you, it is within the other and of course this has to be true because the beauty of why this makes sense is that God would not even need to exist for this to be true.

Now how Genius is that.

God does not have to exist in as much as God can exist, for the same reality of truth to remain true that the spirit seeks after itself. How empty the spirit must be, to only recognize other spirits that are empty. Or rather the perception of how we value ourselves makes some energies perceptibly higher than others, but wouldn’t it be easier for souls to know each other when we’ve all emptied our souls out to each other.

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