I don't think the "elite" is intimidated by the surge of spirituality; I just think spirituality is not in their agenda.

If a person becomes spiritual, eventually this person is going to realize that material things are not so important as they want us to believe.

If you start to feel better about your situation in life, you give more time to nurture your spirituality and less time to the pursuit of money. If you are satisfied with what you have, why would you be buying things that you really don't need?

Notice this: when first we get to this spiritual information (we create our reality with our thoughts), what do we think about first? We think about all the stuff we want to have. But this journey of learning eventually leads us to realize that we don't really need the stuff to be happy - it's the contrary, you find your happiness first (positive thoughts and feelings) and then you attract the essence of what you want - but, at that point, it becomes clear that it is not the stuff that makes us happy.

The "elite" wants the economy to grow - how can it grow if everybody cares more about their thoughts and feelings than they care about stuff?

If we study history, we will notice that during the period of domination of "the Church" in the western world, little was made in the direction of the material progress of humanity, because the (western) "elite" of those times, the monarchies, controled the minds of the masses through the Church.

Now we have a (western ) world in which the "new elite" controls people through media.

I wouldn't be so hard on these people that work on the media, because they are totally mind controlled by the "elite", and for these people to feel good about themselves, they have to ridicule other people - otherwise, they would have to ask themselves "why" there are people who dedicate their lives to improve spiritually - and asking that is very dangerous for them. They ridicule because they are afraid that they are missing something. These people don't even realize they are mind controlled or that they are working in a massive machine whose only purpose is to control people's minds and make them serfs of society, serfs without thoughts, feelings and dreams of their own.

The best we can do is to ignore media and pursue our quest to know who we really are, what we really want and what we can do about it.

There's still room to grow, there's still room to freedom, and our lives are short - we cannot save the world.

Fighting 'what is' is not only a waste of our time, it's really impossible nowadays.

The world may enter a new "Dark Age" - we are already losing knowledge, trading it for mere information. It may be a kind of collective agreement for the growth of humanity as a whole, to go through these new Dark Ages. And then, someday, like in the Renaissance, people will wake up and search for the knowledge lost, and another cicle will begin.

At that time, the ones who have spiritual knowledge will be sought out - they are going to be the "wise people" of the future, the bridge between the world in decadence (now) and the world of the future (new Renaissance).

We absolutely don't have to worry about it, or fight it, just live our lives, try to keep the knowledge alive, so that, when people look for it in the future, they may find something to help them.

Don't waste your spirituality finding fault with the world, with the elite, the illuminati, communists or capitalists. Focus on being a keeper of knowledge, a keeper of the light, a keeper of high vibrations :)

Emphatically, yes.

Spiritual people are next to impossible to control, and they are by their very nature egalitarian. This does not mix well with hierarchical thinking and the concentration of wealth and decision-making.

Have you ever noticed corporate job ads that say they are looking for people who are "hungry"? This is usually taken figuratively, to mean that they are looking for people with a lot of drive. I think the truth goes deeper than that- they are literally looking for people who are hungry, who will tolerate horrific conditions, and give their entire life as laborers for very little in return- just enough to get by.

Have you noticed how right-wing politics, the current favorite conduit for hierarchical thinking, will support measures that lead to greater desperation among the poor, even when it isn't good for the bottom line? That's making people hungry. Hungry people are more likely to voluntarily chose a life of servitude under the corporate yoke.

For some reason, and I'm not entirely sure why, but it may be because you always need a certain amount of spirituality even in the worst of societies to keep it from killing itself, spirituality is no longer against the law, and it is getting popular. So obviously the next best thing is to try and kill it through its reputation.

Power taking desperate measures is never a pretty sight, and we can expect more of it, until it will naturally expose itself in all its ridiculousness, and we will all have a good laugh at corporate power's expense.