Description

"Spirituality for Sale" is a critical examination of how the $4.4 trillion wellness industry has transformed authentic spiritual practice into consumer products. The book exposes the machinery of spiritual commodification-from crystal shops and psychedelic tourism to weekend teacher certifications and algorithm-optimized social media spirituality. Through seven chapters, it reveals how the spiritual marketplace weaponizes seekers' deepest longings, creating a business model that keeps them perpetually hungry but never satisfied.

The author distinguishes between what can be packaged for profit and what remains inherently unpackageable: genuine presence, integrity, and the discipline of daily practice. The book examines how cult dynamics emerge within seemingly legitimate wellness communities and teaches readers to distinguish authentic spiritual authority from manipulation that creates permanent dependency.

Rather than simply critiquing the marketplace, the book offers an alternative foundation built on five accessible human capacities: taking responsibility for experience, living with integrity, cultivating inner discipline, treating the body as an instrument, and using breath as a bridge to awareness. These require no expensive retreats, special teachers, or exotic practices.

Written for sincere seekers exhausted by empty promises and predatory pricing, Spirituality for Sale is both warning and guide-reclaiming what no algorithm can optimize and no guru can sell: the reader's own capacity for clear, present, authentic living in a world determined to commodify transcendence.