I see no reason to confuse spirituality with terror. Having reached a certain point of despair/narcissism, death is far easier than life; but spirituality is never about choosing the easier path. "Man's Fate" always struck me as a lie from beginning to end. Lessing's "Good Terrorist" seemed a more honest look at the phenomena and Conrad's "Secret Agent" also provides a good anatomy -- particularly of the "intellectual" component of terrorism and of the way in which it inevitably undermines the possibility of working class consciousness. At bottom, terrorism is an intellectual fantasy of turning oneself into a weapon without suffering the degradation of doing lower class work.
Joanna Bujes