The Danger of Spiritual Narcissism

I think much of the spirituality in the West is primarily self-inclined. That is to say, the momentum of Western spirituality is mostly oriented towards the improvement of the feelings and conditions of the individual. What is becoming more apparent to me on my own path of healing, however, is that the healing of the individual can not altogether be independent of the healing of the whole. It is impossible to be altogether healthy within the context of a sick culture. We are too greatly connected for any individual to be in any way isolated from the whole. Such are the conditions of our global climate. Counter-culture bubbles, cozy they may be, are not immune to the influence of the greater culture. It is truly us, and it is truly we, and any healing on an individual level will always be directly symbiotic to that of all civilization.