What is the real meaning of spirituality?

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Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:00 UTC

From monotheism to ancient mystery traditions to new age 'spirituality', there is a plethora of religious or 'spiritual' beliefs available that claim to offer the real path to 'god'. But have any of them done so? Are modern human beings any more morally or spiritually evolved than their ancestors at any other time in history? What is the real meaning of spirituality and what is the nature of true human evolution?

On this episode of the Truth Perspective, we discussed what is perhaps the most often asked question: what is the meaning of life? Is real spirituality based on rules and doctrines, or something else? And if we aren't really practicing spirituality, how do we do so? At the end of the show we also had some brief comments about the recent shooting in Orlando.

Running Time: 01:56:38

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Because an aspect of 'spirituality' is subjective, I think we should offer only an ostensive definition of the WORD 'spirituality' without trying to define the very process itself. I had also encountered similar problem trying to define 'religion'. Dictionaries helps too little cause they offer a heep of irreconcilable ways of using these words. But to illustrate what I mean, lets consider one dictionary definition of 'religion'

RELIGION: beleive in and worship of a superhuman, supreme being

But since 'worship' distinguishes it from beleiving in say an ET, and worship is subjective, we find problems truely defining 'religion'.

Same happens when we go dipper to what 'spirituality' as an event is exactly as opposed to just guiding someone to the correct usage of the word. Essentially, we define ostensively. But when what we want to define is subjective, we encounter problems as we can't communicate it to other people.

With that, I suggest that we should stop at defining 'spirituality' as 'the concern of the unseen'. This definition leaves out the details such as motives etc to the individual persuing the unseen things. It is much like defining 'meditation' as sitting cross leged and becoming silent for sometimes as if to get concerned with things that are not directly perceptible. In other words, we stop at the need for COMMUNICATING using the word and not at defining the process of meditation itself. This is because being subjective, it may mean different things to different people. Same applies to spirituality, religion etc.

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Roaring Lovely June 13, 2016 at 6:04am

Because an aspect of 'spirituality' is subjective, I think we should offer only an ostensive definition of the WORD 'spirituality' without trying to define the very process itself. I had also encountered similar problem trying to define 'religion'. Dictionaries helps too little cause they offer a heep of irreconcilable ways of using these words. But to illustrate what I mean, lets consider one dictionary definition of 'religion'

RELIGION: beleive in and worship of a superhuman, supreme being

But since 'worship' distinguishes it from beleiving in say an ET, and worship is subjective, we find problems truely defining 'religion'.

Same happens when we go dipper to what 'spirituality' as an event is exactly as opposed to just guiding someone to the correct usage of the word. Essentially, we define ostensively. But when what we want to define is subjective, we encounter problems as we can't communicate it to other people.

With that, I suggest that we should stop at defining 'spirituality' as 'the concern of the unseen'. This definition leaves out the details such as motives etc to the individual persuing the unseen things. It is much like defining 'meditation' as sitting cross leged and becoming silent for sometimes as if to get concerned with things that are not directly perceptible. In other words, we stop at the need for COMMUNICATING using the word and not at defining the process of meditation itself. This is because being subjective, it may mean different things to different people. Same applies to spirituality, religion etc.

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