There is another spirit that claims us <br />At least if we are not on our guard, <br />It will convince us by every psychological means <br />To buy and buy and buy and that numbers hold the truth. <br /> <br />Yet we feel, having everything, something is missing. <br />Saint Augustine has a great clue for us: <br />'Our hearts are restless till they rest in thee.' <br />God's spirit so different than noetic spirit. <br /> <br />Noetic spirit, Goebbels understood it well <br />Commissioned Riefenstahl to help consolidate <br />The fuhrer's power. A day of national mourning <br />When the Army was lost at Stalingrad. <br /> <br />Our spiritual pverty is in our prevalent theology <br />Not how many angels on the head of a pin <br />But our love of the car in the drive way <br />Or a thousand other idols, some I would be ashamed to name. <br /> <br />Noetic spirit has changed our land, our land the world. <br />Television may be the great herald of its coming. <br />I do not know an exact point of divide. <br />Sacrifice a word known only to our soldiers. <br />The man in the film said: 'Plastic! '<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/noetic-spirit/
