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Question

OK. We see that we have many things in today's world.
That was not here 2000 years ago. So who are we to
say, that certain ways of life were not possible. Like the
Egyptians and heart surgery, Shoalin Monks, from China,
who could fly. Magic in Europe, during the Dark Ages.
And Native Americans and metamorphic powers,
from man to animal. To Religion and Spirituality
people. Does the fact that we have so much technology, it
does something to the human psyche ? Does it causes
us to lose touch with our spirituality ? Good question.
Given the fact that many people, in a modern day world,
have less connections with there own inner strength,
and supernatural powers. From a Divine Being of course.
And in some cases evil forces. Miracles do exist.
But now we have given way, to idolatry. And pride.
Have we deprived ourselves, or the full essence of
spirituality ? Best answer wins. ***

In other words. People back in those
days, could have easily said that
what we are now, is just not possible....
If someone told them about the
future. :)

Answer 1

Granted heart surgery among the ancient Egyptians is amazing, but the Shoalin Monks flying and the Native Americans transforming was a result of peyote & opium, and the magic of the Middle Ages was a result of science and/or superstition. But in-a-way humanity has lost it's touch with spirituality which is both good and bad.

Answer 2

Many years ago a sociologist said that computers and technology would lead to an economic revolution. Increased production was predicted while people would be working fewer hours. An idealistic workplace offering more leisure hours for human beings to enjoy. It turned out that computers and technology are making people work longer hours, people are linked to their jobs by ever increasingly tiny technological gadgets, many people who 'have' to work two jobs do so only to keep up with the latest technology (they have to have that iPhone, the gigantic flat TV screen to put up the wall, the Wii for the kids, the luxury van with DVD screens on the back seats) so of course there is no time for meditation, for spirituality, for contemplation, for inner peace and gratefulness. There is just no time.

Answer 3

a. Best answer always wins.

b. The heart surgery thing is real, we just don't know the survival rate. The flying thing is probably not real, because they don't fly today. The other instances of magic you site work some times and not others. Therefore cannot be trusted.

c. Technology does deaden our senses with respect to miracles. The things they do with medicine today are miraculous!!! For us now, it's commonplace. A mere hundred years ago, surgery was a totally different ball game.

I agree that we are depriving the full essence of spirituality.

Answer 4

Well, the things you listed are not necessarily, strictly, impossible. But they're close.

Ancient Egyptian heart surgery? Since they, presumably, had no notion of microbes I would think that any attempts on their part would not have worked well. It's reasonable to assume that if they tried it, they probably gave up soon. Does this mean it's impossible? I suppose not, but it would be foolish to believe that they had success at it without some better reason than "someone said so".

Flying monks? Everyone's experience tells them that humans will fly unaided when pigs do. (to paraphrase a well-known saying)
Is it impossible? Probably. But what's more important is that to believe it happened simply because no one has proven to you that it did not is fantasy.

I don't know any way of proving to you that, say, Leonardo da Vinci did not drive a Cadillac. But anyone who says that he did is being foolish.

This is not arrogance, it's realism.

Answer 5

Read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by P Yogananda and you will find that a lot of htese miracles still exist today, they are just kept quiet and out of the public domain. Did you see the marvels of the Shoalin monks on TV last year?

Answer 6

This has more to do with materialism than it does with technology. When we become so wrapped up in the 'stuff and nonsense' we possess and cling to it and need more of it then we are diluting ourselves and really can't grow spiritually but that doesn't mean we're absent of spirit. I think the West has more of this problem than more impoverished nations as those poor people have nothing to hold on to. It's in our grasping on to things that we become confused about what we truly value.
I "NEED to have that new computer game", "I NEED to have those designer jeans" etc. etc. Needs, wants and necessities become confused by a culture that is saturated by commercialism. We lose sight of what is truly important.
I've seen many people come back from retreats who have tapped back in to their essence. We need to tune into ourselves and those around us more and realize that once they are gone they cannot be replaced. My computer, your computer, clothes, houses, etc. etc. can be replaced. There are always more things. Divinity is within you and the people around you. We just need to reach out more often and with open hearts filled with compassion. Many blessings.

Answer 7

1. Technology is a joke.
2. The biggest joke to ever hear, will be the one you will never believe. " Man does not exist".
3. The world around you only seems solid, because you think you and the world are real.
4. If I'm stark raving mad, the sad thing is you are living in my reality, not the other way around.
5. All the answers can be answered with one question, is man not man's puppet?

Answer 8

Anything is possible. We didn't deprive ourselves of such knowledge. It was taken from us. We are just now beginning to learn again what the human mind and spirit are truly capable of. The mind is a powerful tool when utilized even a tiny percentage above the normal ability of humans today. I think we have collective amnesia and we are just beginning to wake up.

Answer 9

the shaolin couldn't fly, it was a myth and if it wasn't why aren't they still doing it? the shaolin monks train their bodies and belong to the Ch'an Buddhist school more commonly known as Zen in Japan and Buddhists reject such practises and concepts as irrelevant anyway so even if it were possible they wouldn't do it as it is not conductive to enlightenment plus only some schools of Buddhism talk about miracle powers or enlightened beings others make no mention of them or only mention them as a false view.
you need to get a grip on reality and myth, lots of myths sprung up due to the shaolin ability's in martial arts none of which are true.

Answer 10

The more intellegent we become in our own minds, the more ignorant we become in the knowledge of God. It is satans way to make people believe that they are gods themselves as he, himself, said that he would exhault himself above the Most High God and set up his kingdom above that of the Most High. Satan failed. Yet he is still trying to do the very thing he said he would do. The devil has no new tricks. The same tricks he used centuries ago he is still using today. With all this increase in techological advance and intelligence, we have not gained knowledge but rather lost it. It is not wise to exhault yourself above the Most High God. We have definantly become to smart for our britches and in so doing have lost out with God.