I keep hearing from people in my life that spirituality is an essential part of living a meaningful existence. I hear the phrase “let go and let God” and “everything happens for a reason” used a lot as advice and comfort. However, I’m an atheist and a materialist. I don’t know how I could even be spiritual with those beliefs. At the same time, my life is not fulfilling despite the fact that I am not struggling financially. Moreover, I feel paralyzed when I try to get off my privileged ass and do even the bare minimum for socialist organizing because I realize that it goes directly against my labor aristocratic class interests. I feel like knowing that sticking my neck out and contributing to the real movement to change the present state of things is the morally correct thing to do isn’t enough to drive me.
In short, what is spirituality? Is it compatible with materialism? If so, how? And if spirituality is the wrong tree to bark up, how can I drive myself to do what is to be done?
Spirituality really simply is just a self affirming itself. Thats it. When you take spiritual damage it means somebody or something is damaging ur ability to affirm that you deserve to be here.
Also stop intellectualizing ur demobilization and just do something. You dont even have enough praxis to make claims like “realizing something goes against ur labor aristocratic class interest”. You will seeiously feel better by organizing and learning to affirm the self by contributing to something without expecting a direct benefit.