RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
December 15, 2015 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 2:10 am by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo.)
(December 15, 2015 at 1:24 am)Reflex Wrote: Your notion of 'spirituality' seems to be a vacuous feeling rather than an intelligible approach to the Absolute, viz. that what transcends us, encompasses us and redeems us (that is, guides us toward having a more abundant life) and reveals to us our true purpose. It "shows itself as so impoverished that, like a wanderer in the desert craving for a mere mouthful of water, it seems to crave for its refreshment only the bare feeling of the divine in general. By the little which now satisfies Spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss."Vacuous feeling? What is the point of anything if you're not comfortable with the life your living? I want answers to philosophical questions to give myself peace of mind. Okay, so you want to understand what transcends us and gives us really diagnostic answers to the human condition? Sweet, I don't see how coming to a higher state of consciousness can't conflate with that.
Plus, consciousness itself is really just a state of mind. Everything we think shapes the reality around us. Getting into a state of mind where you feel you can no longer take everything for granted, I imagine it would feel like a sense of calm, a sense of modesty and confidence. How the hell can we even theorize what that would be like? I remember being in a science museum in Chicago, there was an exhibit about the human mind. There was a portion of the mind exhibit that said monks can regulate their emotions within seconds. That to me seems like higher spiritual states of mind, which conflates with literal provable scientific theory.
