Overturning thousands of years of human thought, too many people nowadays find themselves less concerned with immortality vs. extinction, guiltiness vs. purity, and more obsessed with ignominious (-marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame), contemptible meaninglessness. The modern central themes of human concern revolve less around what actually matters and more on what doesn't. What obstacles deter us from comprehending the truth that there is more than what meets the eyes? It seems to me the equation of modernity = pathogenic ocular dissonance. Do modernists really view traditional religious wisdom as the mere remnants of superstition? Clearly not. They simply pick and choose what suits their intents and shift their incumbent superstition to something else. Those who claim ultimate allegiance and faith in the empirical sciences as opposed to traditional religious dogma increasingly find themselves trapped in the quest of kooky “new age” spiritualism. Even for the proclaimed atheist – science, reason, and faith are working in unison. They do of course prefer you not bring this to their attention. The latest contribution to human thought from the new spiritualists seems to revolve around energy fields, esp, pseudo-astrology, and the like. But is this new religion of the supernatural just the repackaging of an ancient one? Yes, it is. However unsettling this revelation must be. The highest liberation people preferably seek is non-interference, as if this represented a qualitative notion of ultimate fulfillment of pleasure. But what if it can be proven that uninterrupted pleasure-seeking isn't in our best interest? What then?