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(I don't mean to sound like I am attacking you or defending my belief system at all costs. I encourge questions and debate. I love this forum.)
Oh, absolutely. This is not a selfish journey. But a journey to help mankind. My spiritual teacher teaches that growing spirituality is like a seed. At the beginning it is small and it must be nutured and protected. If you give too much when you are still growing, there will be not enough energy to grow and flourish. When the tree has grown massive and become strong, then the tree can give without affecting itself so much.
After all, (I know this sounds cynical and I don't believe I am cynical) people can be takers. At times, they would rather be given a fish than be taught to fish. And of course it takes much more time to teach people to fish.
As the spiritual moves grows and becomes strong, it's effects will be felt much more. As the momentum builds, as the energy builds, it will affect the consciousness of all people in a good way. See
http://permanentpeace.org/ for an idea on how this might happen. Imagine paying people to meditate on peace every day. In Washington, DC one summer this reduced the crime rate in a measureable way. And as more poeple started meaditating, the crime rate declined further. More than 40 studies world wide have documented this effect, including one study in Isreal.
I believe the purpose of the internet to spread spiritual teachings and the Universe knew this and the internet was always destined to arrive here. The world wide network of fiber-optics, copper and wireless is like adding another nervous system to the planet to spread information. Imagine if you could add another way of collecting data from your body to your brain that worked faster and carried more and better information than your nerves.
Books were not spreading the words fast enough. There is not enough give and take between authors and readers. Movies are an excellent teaching tool (Star Wars trilogy, The Matrix, etc.) for new ideas that hundreds of millions of people world wide, but important spiritual movies only reach a few people.
Coyote
