Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenents of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand yearsm have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them.

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Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly (1996). Optimal Experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "
To achieve a flow state a balance must be struck between the challenge of the task and the skill of the performer.

He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. iː/ MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mə-HY-ee; Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály [ˈtʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj]; born September 29 1934 in Fiume Italy – now Rijeka Croatia) is a Hungarian psychology professor who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Martin Seligman former president of the American Psychological Association described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.