Maya Spiritualität und Globalisierung - Lateinamerika-Studien Online

Spiritualität stellt für Thomas Hart eine Unmöglichkeit dar. Die
leichte Zugänglichkeit spiritueller Inhalte im Internet stellt Thomas
Hart dem realen Prozeß des Erlernes von Maya Spiritualiät
unvereinbar gegenüber. Das oberflächliche Wissen um den Maya
Kalender ist nicht das Eigentliche der Maya Spiritualiät, die
spirituellen, kraftvollen, geheimen Inhalte stehen für ihn im
Widerspruch mit der Schnelligkeit und der leichten Zugänglichkeit
durch das Internet. Werden spirituelle Inhalte durch den
spirituellen Hunger der Konsumgesellschaft der sogenannten ersten
Welt tatsächlich zu einem Produkt degradiert, welches von
jedermann konsumiert werden kann?
„There are also questions about people reaching out to works
Mayan Spirituality through recourses that are around thanks
Globalisation. That recourses can be WebPages at the internet,
books, that can mean electronic or paper Publications representing
Mayan Spirituality and that means that there are individuals who
represent themselves. There are other people they have a serious
interest will find it easier to go to them than to come to Guatemala
and talk to people who practice it every day of their life. And that’s
another risk, it becomes too easy to get an access to information if
there is a middleman. The middleman are those individuals are
keen often for commercial reasons. That removes first of all the
respect to the people who live Mayan Spirituality here in Guatemala
and secondly the truth, because each of these middlemen has their
own point of view. And a lot of what is represented at the internet
for example as Mayan Spirituality really very, very far away from
people here understand it. ... It’s also a question when it comes to
publication in terms of globalisation as I say through books or
electronic media. It becomes to easy. Knowledge of Mayan
Spirituality has to be learnt, it also has to be earned, it has to be
earned by sacrifices, earned step by step development rather then
having for instance a book of the meanings of the calendar. That’s
not the idea, there a sacred issues, powerful issues. Knowledge of
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