"When you make the mistake of privatizing the physical and publicizing your spiritual life, you get into political trouble". I don't know what you mean exactly.
The only thing that comes to mind is putting anything three dimensional (food, water, land) under private control, and preventing access to those resources, while making spiritual convictions public. I don't immediately see a possible inversion, though...making physical resources available to all, while keeping spiritual convictions private?
Could you elaborate?
I mean that you shouldn't put too much value into the physical because this is how authority will control you. If you minimize your physical "footprint", authority has less to grab onto. How many cops do you see pulling over the Amish for speeding? Civil asset forfeiture laws make it something abhorrent to police departments. They want money, not pigs and goats.