With the bankruptcy and dissolution of the materialist paradigm, human desire, unlimited by nature, will have no choice but attach itself to those metaphysical domains where lack still prevails. This is the condition, sine qua non, for messianic revelation and the real beginning of universal, spiritual evolution. In a world where few agree on very much, universal harmony can emerge only with the blanket removal of the veil of ignorance and illusion that substantially encumbers the spirits of all men, regardless of their state of development. It's failing is in the weakness of its faith and the materialist fragmentation of its commitment. The prime failing of the spiritual world, where motivations are presumably purer, is the reluctance to engage the spiritual challenge that matter poses, preferring to pass around the collection plate and feed on the wages of materialism.
Materialism is the unconscious conviction that existence is substantially physical.
Just as the restriction of mind by matter occludes mind, the restriction of matter by mind reveals mind.