Kyupol, Robert Heinlein nailed all that forty years ago in Stranger in a Strange Land Then there's Arthur C. Clarke in Childhood's End

Spiritualism is a blind alley. One must realize that your thoughts are not your identity. Just be. You transcend spirit because you are beyond all such worldly definitions.

Then everything comes into focus if only for a moment and laughter comes so easily as this world is so hung up on the silliest of things. Coincidence is irony. If random it's our own foolishness, if not the universe has an innate sense of humor that we should all tap into.