Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and


You can’t buy your way into insights, nor sell it to others.
When you do this, the intellectual property isn’t truly yours, and suggests the insight hasn’t yet undergone a journey through your soul.
A desire to commoditize insights feeds the ego, and creates the illusion of understanding what you have bought or sold.
It is often said that this where we are now is a moment of spiritual revival. The mainstreaming of tools like astrology and tarot, the taking up of the symbol of the witch as an acceptable feminine archetype, workplaces hiring “spiritual consultants” to imbue their offices with meaning and ritual, the common use of language around “energy” and “the
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Why is faith so much more visible in open source, then? My theory: faith and open source both place high value on community and a sense of public service. Organized religion is the original distributed community, and it’s lasted thousands of years.
“The obvious opportunity,” he said, “is to build a new religion.”
people who leave organized religion quickly become eager to replace the void with another system of meaning—a dimension most atheist groups have failed to consider.