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I would describe it as the "invisible" part of a person. Just acknowledging that the physical, mental, and emotional parts of a person are all interconnected in one whole biological system. And that there is possibly more that science has not yet discovered, connecting us to all living and maybe even non-living things, but that this is something which will be able to be discovered by scientific means.
I would describe it as the "invisible" part of a person. Just acknowledging that the physical, mental, and emotional parts of a person are all interconnected in one whole biological system. And that there is possibly more that science has not yet discovered, connecting us to all living and maybe even non-living things, but that this is something which will be able to be discovered by scientific means.
they have already found the connections. Down to the fabric of space itself. Many scientist feel that we should be treating the biosphere as an organism to better understand, describe, and maintain it.
I would think that a person thinks upon spiritual things...probably a bit
more than sports. So they would be called spiritual rather than athletic.
It's that they value and enjoy learning about spiritual things a lot, (not
religious dogma, mind you).
Nothing fancy or complicated about, imo.
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Such Christian flavors here...yet, to be spiritual crosses all religions...that is why
we are called spiritual and not religious.
An athlete can play tennis or football, skate or jog...a spiritual person values
the things that are unseen....with no dogma, books or hierarchy of elders.
You've drawn an arbitrary distinction between two things which may well overlap.
Trying to better oneself as an athlete often requires bettering oneself in all realms, not just the physical/mental/emotional -- although 3/4 ain't bad in any sport/endeavour.
What does it mean to be spiritual? What is consciousness?
Those are really two sides of the same coin. No one can define consciousness, or at least hasn't to this point, but it is clear that consciousness is required to be spiritual. Consciousness is more than brain wave activity, so does that mean spirituality is also? Maybe.
Just as one debates what is consciousness, most of us would agree that higher level of animals are conscious and aware. Does that mean they have a spirituality also? Again, maybe, as it appears that recent studies show that chimps possibly have sacred trees, use spears for hunting and make dolls out of sticks. How far down the evolutionary ladder do we go before we can say an organism no longer has consciousness?
For me, spirituality is feeling that there is something greater than ourselves. I am not talking about an anthropomorphized, sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent entity, but the universe itself, or the multiverses it is a part of. It is real, and it is part of us (via stardust), and obviously be existing, we are part of it. I think this video (about 3 minutes) by Neil deGrasse Tyson most closely defines a spirituality I can concur with.
I am confused, maybe its just the wording ... I hope ...
I don't think spiritual people are about "why" as much as they are about 'experience it". I don't consider myself spiritual because, although I do have awe sometimes, I am more interested seeing if we can explain, offer a mechanism, and make predictions to what spiritual people claim they feel. And some of it can explained using science and engineering.
The why they feel the connections to the system around them is explained these days. At our level of perception that is. The chugga chugga, woo woo, choo choo isn't my thing. The standard model explaining what many of them misunderstand is my thang. And, despite what atheism's priest claim, it is measurable. of course, I haven't met many a pastor, priest, or sage, that is interested in what is going on over what they need to be going on. theist or non-theists.
It means that you submit to the Holy Spirit to allow Him to change you. The BIble never tells us to be "indwelt with" the Spirit, but it does say we should submit to the Spirit and he will make us more like Jesus.
Eph 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit
Gal 5:16 "But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh."
Whether one's life is dedicated to living in the spirit or only aspiring (weakly or stoutly) toward same, within a religious framework or not, and encouraging others to do the same - that is the best of our human nature.
If this attitude is ignored or scorned, then personal & societal problems abound, as Jung points out.
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Among all my patients in the second life—that is to say, over thirty-five—there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
C.G.Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
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