The movie Very Bad Things (starring Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater and one of my all-time favorite actors, Jon Favreau) is an extreme portrayal of what happens when we reach a heightened state of mental acuity without God, usually through meditation and other “spiritual” activities.
In the movie, Christian Slater’s character starts out seeming like a highly stable person. He is in the moment, happy, and after there is an accidental murder, he adopts an attitude of “let’s just be logical about this and not overreact.”
But soon we find him murdering someone on purpose so they don’t tell anyone about the first accidental murder!
By the end of the movie, he’s a plain old psycho, killing whoever might expose the deepening madness.
Where is the spirituality in that?
There isn’t any.
