Integrative Conception of Human Being The deeper problem with
religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism is
that the spirituality is seen as divorced from physicality,
which leads to similar separation in social reality. The people
with spiritual inclinations go into monasteries or into
ministry; the women have to share their lives with men who
believe that women are evil and that their duty is to control
their every action and every thought. The world, being seen as
one of illusion or one of Satan, becomes that way more
convincingly by being shorn of the attention of those who have
it within themselves to want to improve things. And the concept
behind these convictions becomes self-fulfilling and then
becomes reality for the people living under such beliefs. This
is not accidental; this is an inevitable, logical result of the
beliefs themselves. To conceive spirit as being forever divorced
from flesh, or of human nature as sin, or of desire as root of
all suffering, is to rob the real worl