Fallacy of Materialism Video

Researchers have found that low self esteem increases materialism, and materialism can also create low self-esteem. As Self Esteem Increases, Materialism Decreases

"By the time children reach early adolescence, and experience a decline in self-esteem, the stage is set for the use of material possessions as a coping strategy for feelings of low self-worth," wrote Lan Nguyen Chaplin and Deborah Roedder Johnwhich in a study which appears in the Journal of Consumer Research.

In the book Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, Richard Layard exposes a paradox at the heart of our lives. As societies become richer, they do not become happier. In fact, the First World has more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United States, continental Europe and Japan.

In their book The Hiram Key, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas have some important things to say on this matter that are worth repeating:

The Egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. Their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organization and disorderThis chaotic state was called Nun, and like the Sumerian descriptions , all was a dark, sunless watery abyss with a power, a creative force within it that commanded order to begin. This latent power which was within the substance of the chaos did not know it existed; it was a probability, a potential that was intertwined within the randomness of disorder.

Materialists are modern examples of idolaters. They do not worship statues and totems made of wood and stone, but believe in the idea that matter constitutes, not only these, but all bodies, and think that this matter has limitless power, intelligence and knowledge.