The Emperor's New Clothes.

Some may liken spatiality to the Emperor's New Clothes. They don't see it and they assume that those who say they see it are lying to try to fit in and win the approval of others. There are many instances where this is the case. But how do we know if the others are lying or we are just don't have the gift see what they see? If the child in Anderson's tale was more sophisticated he could have done an experiment to determine if others where ling of if he was just too stupid to see the Emperor's clothes. He could have separately asked everyone who said they say the Emperor's clothes to describe the clothes in detail. If the description's matched by more than could be stylistically accounted for by coincidence than maybe he was just to stupid to see it. If there were clothes that he could not see he could also have a good idea which ones where lying and which ones actually saw it. You could say that there is a conspiracy and that everyone agreed beforehand that the clothes where red or whatever. In the case of spirituality you could say there are books on spirituality so if you ask people what it is like and they say the same thing it could be simply because they read the same books. But true spirituality unlike the Emperor's close does not simply give information about what it is like but changes the person's life. I think most books on spirituality would describe it as love, joy and peace, but it is not simply those who say spirituality is love joy and peace who truly see it, but those whose lives are filled with love joy and peace that see it.