Escaping the Spiritual Desert

Posted by Mark Zimmerman Aug 3, 2008

When Pope Benedict XVI had addressed large crowds, ending with his remarks to approximately 350,000 young people at Catholic World Youth Day, he told those in attendance at a Mass in Sydney that "In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair." He called for young people to become "messengers of love" to counter a world that was becoming increasingly spiritually barren. These words reflect with great clarity, the sensations of so many people on this planet-around us is prosperity and wealth but no sense of joy in life and great fear of the future.

It is due to this emptiness that there is a renewed interest in spiritual matters, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands in attendance in Sydney. There is also a growing interest in authentic Kabbalah, as well. The wisdom of Kabbalah can not only help us understand the underlying reason for this "spiritual desert" and why there is so much fear, despair and emptiness, it also shows us how to escape this desert and become "messengers of love" to the world around us.

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