(January 3, 2014 at 9:54 am)enrico Wrote: Spirituality is not something new really but it is new to those who never practice it.This is what I mean. You make a bunch of claims and that's it. Many of us "practiced spirituality" at some point in our lives (in my case, most of my life). When we point out that we found nothing you will respond with some variation of "you did not search properly" or "you did not search long enough" or "you searched in the wrong place" or whatever it takes to protect your beliefs. Your belief system requires that you reject anything that doesn't confirm it, which leads to grasping at straws and making up explanations that are unconvincing. We're not the ones trapped in dogma.
Blind faith does not search for the truth on the other hand spirituality is a constant work to bring the knowledge within up to the surface.
It is with the practice that it is possible to know whether there is something behind this physical world or not but how would you know if you never bother to investigate by practicing?
"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