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Previously, I would say I wanted to bring together the people that now claim themselves to be spiritual and not religious but I think my quest has expanded.  In addition to getting people together I need them to acknowledge the core principals we all share one example being the priority of the earth because no earth = no people, people !

Furthermore, I feel it necessary to inform those “spiritual but not religious people” that people who are religious are not an enemy and just because religion shapes their lives, this is not a bad thing.  This has become a new unaddressed prejudice all in itself, especially within my generation.

So my intent 3 fold

1. Getting people to acknowledge the core principals we all share despite religious and non religious differences

2. Getting the “spiritual but not religious” group to understand those who choose to live a religious life

3. Harness the power of technology and the internet to organize the unorganized in the interfaith community and show those who are not aware the strength that comes with it.

I was recently reading The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, one of my favorite books at the moment, and he commented on the drive for people to identify with objects. This is so noticeable with mass consumerism and marketing in the west. Sorry for stating the obvious. Our society makes people think they need that shiny thing to be better. But my thought is, we are becoming more aware that we identify with objects, but not as conscious that we identify with our occupations, and are looking for ourselves from them. The movement of the identification with things is evolving to the identification with occupation.

When we meet someone new one of the first questions we ask is what do you do? I am guilty of this and I believe most adults are. It is really just that old song and dance of sizing people up. The bureau of labor and statistics shows that people between the age of 25 -34 stay at their jobs less than an average of 2 years but most within this age range most really stay less that 12 months. We all know statistics can be bent to our needs so I looked at several different reports and came to the same conclusion.

I do not agree with most on the subject of why this is happening. Most of the resources I have come across on the matter claim out generation are such techies and feel we are so arrogant and feel such entitlement that we can never be happy with where we are. I agree to some extent but I believe it goes beyond this. I belive it is more personal and on some level spiritual. I think we go to job after job looking for ourselves, thinking the next job will finally define us, and give us our identity. This explains our diminished sense of self when we are laid off or fired, even though statistically we would have quit in a few months anyway. There are some that are exceptions to this. They know their jobs do not define them, when someone asks them who they are they do not answer with a job title. This serial job jumping is in direct alignment with a shift in conciousness, which may be happening. Sorry to go all New Age on you, but until we come to the realization we are not our jobs and can not be defined by anything outside of ourselves some of us will be playing job hopscotch for a long time.

I was about to order some cuisine of the Chinese persuasion, when the issue hit me right over the head. I saw all four rolls listed on a menu. I had been browsing a site called seamless web, the lazy persons way to food consumption, to which I have become addicted to, deciding which of the thousands of Chinese restaurants in Manhattan to choose. Of course there were no rollover descriptions on them, urgh the torture. I quickly polled my coworkers, but no one had any idea. Are they classified by their outer shells, is it the meats or lack there of inside that give them their names, or is it some historical story of seasonal consumptions past, that identify these little mysteries? This shall need further investigation.