RE: Spirituality and atheism
February 9, 2014 at 5:18 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2014 at 5:31 am by dscross.)
(February 8, 2014 at 11:36 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(February 8, 2014 at 11:35 am)dscross Wrote: Therefore, in my view, the word 'spirituality' could be, at least partly, used to describe that practice and the lifelong struggle it takes to be able to accept things (and yourself) as they are.
The only word I find necessary to match that description is 'experience'.
Well, you sort of have to take the sentence I wrote prior to that about 'practice' to get the context of what I meant. You obviously dislike the way the word is used, but to quote Harris:
"There seems to be no other term (apart from the even more problematic “mystical” or the more restrictive “contemplative”) with which to discuss the deliberate efforts some people make to overcome their feeling of separateness—through meditation, psychedelics, or other means of inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness.
"And I find neologisms pretentious and annoying. Hence, I appear to have no choice: “Spiritual” it is."
- See more at: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/a-ple...h2sR8.dpuf
