The document discusses several key topics regarding spirituality and a non-materialist view of the world. It questions the ability of materialism to explain origin, value, and meaning. It suggests we are eternal non-material parts of a greater whole. Our purpose is to evolve to spiritual consciousness through finding love and harmony as part of the whole. Meditation and purification can help by connecting to our unchanging core and removing mental "viruses".

1. Matters that
matter more
than matter

2. Forgetting something
Ten friends got a
hotel room on the
100th floor – and the
power went off

3. What materialism can’t tell us
Origin
Value
Meaning

4. World Health Organization (WHO)
A Hard Look at the Modern World
Over one million people
commit suicide every
year.
This figure is more than
the total deaths in wars
and homicides
combined.
......

5. Origin
Nothing existed because of
nothing – nothing exploded
because of nothing and gave
rise to everything

6. Origin
A series of temporary causes
must have a non-temporary
starting cause
Eg. 100-storey skyscraper has to
rest on ground

7. Origin: Who is the inner activator?
“The brain is a computer . . .
But it is programmed by
something that is outside
itself.”
- Wilder Penfield The Mystery of the Mind,

8. Value: Right & Wrong
Nothing wrong in aborting a baby
after birth
- Materialist philosophers Alberto
Giubilini & Francesca Minerva
in Journal of Medical Ethics

9. Meaning
Newton saw apple falling –
what made it fall?
Search for meaning

10. Meaning
Science, if restricted to
materialism, shows tiny
islets of meaning while
flailing in an ocean of
meaninglessness

11. The unknown knower?
Reject reality because
it is not found in the
map?

12. The folly of materialism
“Materialism is the
philosophy of the subject
who forgets to take
account of himself.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer

13. Origin
We are eternal non-
material parts of
the all-attractive
whole

14. Value
Decide right and wrong
based on what helps or
hinders our evolution
to spiritual
consciousness

15. Purpose
To find lasting love
in the harmony of
the part with the
whole

16. Conclusion
Be not apart
Be a part

17. Purification
Removes the viruses that
infect the software of the
mind
Eg “Torches of freedom”

18. Meditation?
Connects us with our
unchanging core
Eg Anchor in an ocean

19. No time?
Spirituality doesn’t take your
work time; it takes your
worry time