This is a problem we run into with terms like "spirituality." It's a term that is defined ambiguously even in dictionaries. Some definitions link it to religion and religious belief, but there are many people who define it in the complete absence of gods or religions. Words like "soul" are similarly tricky to nail down if you compare the religious use of the term to the colloquial use. We're as likely to use the word to mean "person" as we are to mean "essence" or "ghost" or something along those lines.
For me, spiritualism deals with ghosts and the belief that the human mind uses a physical body as a temporary vessel but is able to survive beyond it. Spirituality is linked to our emotions and our emotional experience of the world. The latter does not require a belief in the supernatural or in other planes of existence.
For me, spiritualism deals with ghosts and the belief that the human mind uses a physical body as a temporary vessel but is able to survive beyond it. Spirituality is linked to our emotions and our emotional experience of the world. The latter does not require a belief in the supernatural or in other planes of existence.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
