(February 7, 2014 at 5:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(February 7, 2014 at 5:24 pm)x2theone2x Wrote: I agree completely with this.Neither of you understands what the word means to many of the people who use it, in my opinion.
Spiritual doesn't have to mean, "Dude, my four psychic winds are balanced." "Yeah, dude, my chakras are fully aligned, too." Just thinking deeply about the vastness of space, or trying to understand quantum physics, can lead to a mental state that I'd call spiritual.
(February 6, 2014 at 4:57 pm)EvolutionKills Wrote: I think that Harris is being perhaps a bit liberal with the word 'spiritual', but after having seen him speak and debate, I'm quite confident that he's using that term far differently than Deepak Chopra would in this context.Yes, but I think they would find a lot of common ground about the subjective nature of spiritual experiences, even if they completely disagreeed about what caused those experiences or what their significance was.
I see the word spirituality as vague, as vague as the word god when not given parameters.
