Correctly Understanding Spirituality

 

Spirituality is: A subjectively transformative state of awareness where that subjective entity's narrative-perspective (as it pertains to their narrative of identity) gains empowered peace and clarity with the realization that they are: an integral, living, breathing part of a much larger living breathing whole. Through true spirituality, a person meets themselves more deeply. In turn, this enables them to meet others more deeply. That experience does not need to include the consideration of facts, or arguments, or creeds, or really any philosophical epistemology. The person (not necessarily humans. Other species of apes, for example, can experience this too. But in our case, humans) might only zoom out far enough for their spirituality include: one other person, or a family, or a tribe, or a species, or all life in their local ecosystem, or the global biological ecosystem, or the global ecosystem as it includes soil, the wind and the sun, or the subtly sentient presence of rivers, trees, and mountains, or the known universe and all of its physics, or an 'intuited'/felt (or reasoned) presence which goes beyond the known, or their relationship to their own personal experience with music, or their relationship to the positive and negative forces of energy itself, or emergent patterns found in all known forms of life, or "experiential knowledge" of a larger-than-life "someone" whose fullness extends beyond grasp. Neither the "simple folk" version of Theists, nor the "simple folk" version of Christians, nor the philosophical-elite-ist Christians have 'dibs', nor intellectual property rights, nor a rightful origin-claim ... to what true spirituality is. None of you are qualified, either, to tell everyone else what the core or foundation of those other's people's personal identity "is" or "must be". Thus, none of you are qualified to be an authority about what everyone else's spirituality must be grounded in. In fact, even if someone shared popular religious theories about the ultimate foundation and cause of our physical reality, ... it would not be a "spiritual" idea for them UNLESS they experience it spiritually. That would not be automatic. Nor would it be morally obligatory.