Is It Possible to Transform the Material Conditions of Life?

i understand that, say, with heightened levels of consciousness, oneis is capable, somehow, almost, of transcending the row materiality. Mystics are very much like that. But at other levels of consciousness,. materiality impacts very much the ability to be able to recognize things and progress mentally. And so in that sense, the saint that er, the bodisata, the mystic, the can do without, in olthe material conditions. They can live like a simeon the stylight, on top of a pillar alone, for 20 years, absolutely. That's not always for everyone. So these things, i think, ive v havea place in the pilgr