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When divine love becomes the Wi-Fi signal of the soul, you start to wonder if enlightenment just needs better tech support.

“Be in the world without being in the world” — sounds deep until you realise it’s the spiritual version of “I’m not like other souls.”

What does not make sense

• “No rules except what your heart feels” — right, because civilisation runs great on feelings alone.
• “Religions will be a thing of the past” — sure, after humans stop tweeting politics.
• “Be a sinner, but full of divine love” — a poetic loophole for every bad decision ever.
• “The modern hermit will always be alone in the outside world but not inside” — that’s just introversion with branding.
• “All souls will be connected through divine love” — sounds like the afterlife’s first group call.

The numbers (sense check)

1. 7.9 billion humans — and every single one thinks their “heart truth” is the correct one. Statistically, that’s a lot of conflicting divine love. (Source: UN Population Data 2025)
2. 84% of the world still identifies with a religion. Enlightenment hasn’t replaced Sunday service yet. (Source: Pew Research Center)
3. 0 scientific confirmations of “soul Wi-Fi.” The signal remains metaphorical. (Source: Nature Human Behaviour Journal)
4. 1 constant pattern — people preach freedom, then write a rulebook for it. (Source: Common Sense Department, est. forever)

The sketch

Scene 1: A hermit meditates in a noisy café. A barista yells: “Oat or almond?” Hermit replies, eyes closed: “Be in the world, not of it.”
Scene 2: He tries logging into “SoulNet.” Connection error: Heart not found. Try again later.
Scene 3: A divine light shines. Voice from above: “You are love.” Hermit smiles. Voice adds: “Also, you missed your rent payment.”

What to watch, not the show

• The confusion between feeling spiritual and being responsible.
• The seductive myth that love fixes what discipline avoids.
• The recycling of sacred ideas into shareable quotes.
• The quiet arrogance of claiming “divine” while ignoring “human.”
• The illusion that love alone replaces structure, when love itself needs one.

The Hermit take

You can be in the world without drowning in it — but don’t pretend detachment is enlightenment. Divine love might save souls, but it still needs signal bars.
Be a sinner if you must. Just sin with self-awareness, not hashtags and don’t sanctify the Wi-Fi password.

Keep or toss

Keep (for reflection and ridicule both).

Sources

• UN – World Population Prospects 2025: https://population.un.org/wpp/
• Pew Research Center – The Global Religious Landscape: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/
• Nature Human Behaviour – Consciousness and Collective Cognition Studies: https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/
• Common Sense Department – Everyday Observations Archive (fictional, satire)

Book Source:
Just Love Her by Raz Mihal

Raz Mihal, Just Love Her (2024 Edition), Chapter: The Modern Hermit, pp. 101–102:

THE MODERN HERMIT
12 Nov 2019
Be in the world without being in the world …
Following the practice of divine love reflection into our souls
doesn’t require us to retire from the world in a monastery or
live secluded, but it does require us not to reject the world as a
system. It embraces everything from existence and adapts to the
destinies of our soul images.
The rules are that there are no rules other than what you
feel in your heart. This means that if you feel love, then feel it
… never give up on that feeling. These so-called rules are not
imposed and consist of being constantly aware of divine love
refl ected in our souls.
The instrument that makes you follow and respect the practice
is the heart’s feelings. That’s why when you fall in love with a
soul image through divine love reflection, it is induced by heart
feelings and nothing else. It looks like a gift because it’s not
something you analyse before, nor is it decided by the actions of
other involved relations (parents, tradition, culture and so on).
In the end, you become aware of the divine love existence as
a deity, although it’s not the best representation, more like a state
of absolute and infinite existence embracing forms and energies,
seen and unseen, manifested or not.
The modern hermit in the present reality will always be alone
in the outside world but not inside.
Even if other soul images embrace the vision of divine love,
our bodies and minds are not prepared yet to live connected
inside. In the future, when so many soul images are enlightened,
the inner world will overcome the outside world, and the
connection between souls will be awakened as a part of our
human bodies.
Religions will be a thing of the past. Who needs religion when
divine love is revealed inside our hearts?
Also, racism, discrimination of any form, prejudice and hate
will be seen as a documentary of the primitive human beings from history. Who will want to suffer when all enlightened soul
images are connected inside through divine love?
Word of advice: ‘Be a sinner … But full of divine love.’

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