Reconciling the materialistic economy and spirituality: the great challenge of the new millennium

Abstract

This article asserts that humanity faces two major challenges: reconciling our material with the spiritual and reconcile individual needs with community needs. By not having reconciled these two dimensions of human life, we are at war, social exclusion, suffering, disappointment, anger, inability to move, and many other ills. After providing a framework of a globalized society, the author, the author presents some aspects of the challenge, such as the contrast between a society materially rich and spiritually poor and the need for the integration of humanistic and spiritual values in the economy that would lead a "spiritual economy".