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I began this conversation with you with a question: who is this 'we' you speak of? You didn't provide an answer to that question, so I assumed you meant humanity, and it's not the case that 'we' have abandoned spirituality for science, quite the reverse. To be slightly more uncharitable, I could suggest that you meant the US (you use American English so I assume that's the case), but that, again, would be sheer ignorance on your part. If I'm being extremely uncharitable, I could flirt with the idea that you don't understand the difference between collective and singular pronouns, but I don't believe that, so I have to assume that your reference to the collective was purposeful, and had a meaning, which you're now denying. That's called gaslighting.
The claim I took issue with was your claim that the pre-science days were in some sense superior: 'we knew better, and that science is misused to manipulate vulnerable people into thinking there's no such thing as the spiritual', that claim is false -- the scientific method is incapable of telling us whether spirituality is true or false, as atheists, religious people, spiritualists, and philosophers do that; science has never been concerned with proving or disproving the spiritual, it's impossible for it to be used in that manner. The romanticist claim that 'things were better in the old days', we had access to different kinds of knowledge, higher level knowledge, back then, is commonly spouted by New Agers. David Icke, who I referenced, adheres to that (false) perspective, among other prominent New Age gurus.
It's true that science is often used wrongly, I never denied that, but you cannot deny that you were suggesting that since science came about we've been rolling backwards, that's ludicrous. The thing is, the New Age is a societal contagion so most New Agers don't even realise that their beliefs stem from that line of thought. But having seen your claim that discovering your 'spiritual' side is harder than verifying a physics theorem, it is with a heavy heart that I retract any positive comments I previously made. I'm quite cosy here in reality thank you.