(February 7, 2014 at 5:36 pm)x2theone2x Wrote: I see the word spirituality as vague, as vague as the word god when not given parameters.There's nothing wrong with things being vague, so long as they're not founded in obvious falsehoods or an unwillingness to observe.
If I had to try to describe what it's like to experience something, like enjoying a chocolate bar, I'd be necessarily vague due to linguistic limitations. Harris, and many others, have had experiences that cannot be easily shared. Some kinds of meditative states take a lot of practice and a lot of discipline to achieve, for example. It's not something you can just take a picture of, and say, "See?"
While these things are not literally spiritual, their rareness and their involvement of non-mundane frames of reference merits the term spiritual, IMO, since this is the word that best captures how unique they are to the normal physical processes of hitting things or looking at them under a microscope to investigate them.
