What does it mean to be spiritual?

[Angrboda]

I realize this is a loaded question, and I haven't really thought it through, but I have a current operating definition.

To me, 'spirituality' means those ways of 'knowing', understanding, conceptualizing those aspects of life and existence for which we need practical, rational answers, but don't yet really have practical rational answers. It's a way of putting the unknown (or poorly understood) aspect of who we are as beings with purpose and desires in ways that make it, at least, somewhat useful. For example, we don't currently have a scientific answer for questions such as, "what is my purpose, and given that, should I take that better paying but less desirable job offer?" Our reach far exceeds our grasp in terms of nailing away these questions with our science and reason. So, spirituality fills the void, and I think, in some sense, let's our intuition and subconscious percolate up things that may be accurate, but that the reasoning, linguistic brain has not yet grasped. So to me, then, spirituality is a bridge between those parts of being ourselves which are rationally, practically knowable ("How many calories of food should I eat each day?"), and those which are on the edge, or out of reach, but which our less rational selves can steer us, if not to correct answers, to at least cohesive ways of living in response to these questions beyond the reach of practical reason ("Is it a good thing to eat meat, or make lobsters suffer?").