5. The Status of Spirituality in the World. In the modern world the focus for many appears to be on acquiring wealth, power and status. We have an unconscious obsession with creating, protecting and maintaining strong identities based on ephemeral phenomena, national, professional, race, political persuasion and more. We give very little airtime to our spirituality. We get caught up in, and are distracted by, 'holy wars', religious differences, and what divides us, rather than what unites or connects us. Corporations, the financial world, the charitable sector, governments across the world have their own agendas and may simply want to keep things as they are. In this way they maintain a 'status quo', rather than look to our connectedness, what is an intrinsic and shared connection, and the wisdom in our connectedness, which could lead to co-operative ways of operating.