Spirituality: Why Now?

In recent years the idea of spirituality has been surfacing.  Many feel or sense it but, no one can explain it.  It is something beyond explanation of words but is well within our ability to experience.  What is going on?  Why are we so interested in it now as opposed to the past?

In a nutshell, I think people are just now realizing the importance of spirituality in their lives.  We are living in a time where we have great physical wealth and with the economic difficulties on the horizon, we are finding out that this wealth lacks something.  It lacks real substance that will support our essence.  Material wealth has proven to be empty.  Why?  Because in reality we are spiritual beings.  Yes we have physical bodies but that is not who or what we really are. 

We have also exhausted the limits of religion to explain or give a deeper meaning to our lives and give a satisfactory explanation of our importance.  Where do we go for answers?

This can take volumes to talk about (yet that would not be enough).  So I feel the answer is where do we start?  Our spiritual walk is just that, a walk, not a destination.  We have been taught, too long, by our religious institutions that faith is a destination not a journey.  Could we image a religion filled with people journeying its faith?  Every religion would not only lose control but would also lose people.  The people would not be satisfied with the boundaries religion has established.

Abraham in Genesis 12 had the same problem.  He left to go into the wilderness.  But the Hebrew for going out means to "leave by going inside".  He left for the wilderness to remove the distractions of the world.  He then started to look for answers within himself.  Why?  A piece of God exist within each of us.  A piece of a universal soul within us has the memory of the truth.  We should be looking to access that memory and discover that TRUTH (EMET).