Tag: Materialism

Ask Lewis: What Is Spiritual Materialism

It is useless to struggle against who you really are. That is the point of your wisdom practice, to get in touch with what your natural way of being is. A life guided by spiritual materialism is generally strewn with poor choices, self-aggrandizement acted out to appear as humility, and a deep attac...

Dialectical Materialism

“If we can say anything about life, and be absolutely correct…we can say that all things change, everything changes, all the time…change is both permanent and constant!!” — Kwame Ture, Portland State, October 9, 1973 ”Dialectical Materialism”, wher...

Epicurean Materialism, Community and Ecology

While this position was very controversial in its day, it may be fair to say that this is the dominant perspective in the modern world, insofar as our are ideologies are predominated by scientific materialism — the notion that the universe is just stuff, doing stuff — without the interfe...