RE: Spirituality and atheism
February 8, 2014 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2014 at 12:00 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(February 8, 2014 at 11:35 am)dscross Wrote: I would argue that it takes practice to 'just sense' frequently and not let your thoughts disturb your enjoyment of natural, conscious sensations (mindfulness).
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. Recently I learned to experience my emotions. This sounds trivial, but my whole life I've being doing things to relieve anger, resentment, frustration, anxiety, even happiness. I would think my way out of any emotion. The difference in my life from a perceptual standpoint when I allow myself (appropriately) to be angry or anxious or happy in the moment allows me to experience life on a whole other (non-ethereal) plane. The way I would describe it is life in color instead of black and white.
I would say that my relationships and my connectedness with others has been heightened with this knowledge, and I would liberally describe that knowledge and experience as a sort of spirituality. Knowledge that makes my life more real, more connected, more excitable. No Jesus required.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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