The highest form of spirituality is materialism. I’m not talking about materialism in the sense of buying things or accumulating possessions, but in absolute devotion to the material world directly in front of us. A lot of spirituality teaches us to do the opposite. The body is here in the world, but the ego is somewhere else searching for higher dimensions, astral realms, supernatural beings, altered states, enlightenment, anything more extraordinary than this ordinary moment. We call it “transcendence”, but often it’s just another way of refusing to be where we are. Eventually the entire path brings you back to the place you started. The end is in the beginning, symbolized by the Ouroboros. Back to the body. Back to washing dishes, drinking tea, training, working, growing old, loving people, and paying attention to the few feet of earth beneath your feet. You stop trying to escape the material world and begin inhabiting it completely. You realize that the sacred was never hiding somewhere behind the world. It was the world you kept overlooking while searching for something else. The end of spirituality isn’t another dimension. It’s finally being completely here. This is the stage of realizing Kether is in Malkuth, and Malkuth is in Kether.