Most people talk about religion in Bali.

Most people talk about religion in Bali. There is no religion in Bali, just a vast collection of loosely connected rituals and beliefs that permeate every aspect of everyday life and that serve to connect people and communities with the natural and supernatural world around them through their own very personal experiences of spirituality and consciousness. At first it might look quaint, outdated or cute – a carryover from a simpler age past that has no bearing on the modern world…. live here for a while and youll start to feel the rhythms of the island… then youll understand its anything but. The west has gotten this so so wrong, or has chosen to deliberately hide this kind of knowledge in pursuit of domination over peoples lives and control – money, envy, material greed. Only when you start to feel the spiritual presence of nature, and things can you even begin to understand there is a whole hidden side to the universe that is just as real as your own flesh and bones, and just as an essential part of living and life as food, water and air. You will never ever be what you think of as happy unless you true like understand who and what you are…