Spirituality and 'Memes'

I had an idea this morning to track the number of articles in each Google alert I receive. Two alerts are for my music/creativity blog and one is for this blog. And I got to thinking about my fascination with trendwatching, trendsetting and why, in the savvier sectors of the blogosphere, it is considered repetitive and boring to write about the same stuff as other people.

This led me to further thinking about what 'memes', or ideas and concepts are "hot topics" in the realm of spirituality...

My brief research tallied up Goddess and Women's spirituality as being the biggest thing right now at around 7 articles (and I had a LONG list of spirituality alerts in one email digest!) and at 2 articles each, the topics of spirituality-vs-religion and spirituality-and-celebrities were dead last.

Topics in the middle (at around 4 articles) were about the environment, children and politics.

I understand perfectly why Goddess Spirituality and Women's issues are tight friends and why they're such a big deal. I'm a part of that movement myself. Not so much as a Starhawk fan, as I think she takes it a tad too far, IMO. But rather as a woman who seeks to be in balance with the male gender.

Ergo, it's more interesting to read and write about such a thing. But spirituality and celebrities or the argument of spirituality-vs-religion? Either people are bored with hearing about celebrities flaunting their beliefs and bored with the spirituality-vs-religion debate, or nobody is taking a deeper look into things, preferring to be superficial in their thinking and reporting.

So, I see it as a challenge...why do certain celebrities choose the paths they choose and do they change spiritualities like they change spouses/partners? If not, what makes them stick to the path they're into? Or are they choosing a specific path just for the sake of being controversial?

And the spirituality-vs-religion debate is still something of a fascination, as it seems to be a spin-off of the science-vs-religion debate...

So...maybe I can turn some things on their head...and create a 'meme' of my own: that of actually thinking deeply about topics people think are boring, and giving them a twist--which is exactly what blogging, and writing itself, are about.

BB,
Kat ^.^