(January 10, 2015 at 12:52 am)robvalue Wrote: What does spiritual mean, and how can I test it to see that it is real, or a real quality?
I can't believe in someting if I dont even know what it is.
Just like God, people tell me what spirituality is not, but not what it is, in any meaningful terms.
I've heard it's "the non physical side". That makes the unfounded assumption that there is in fact anything other than the physical.
I'm not claiming that there isn't more than the physical, just that, like God, there's no good reason to think that there is.
You yourself are an instance of something non-physical. From an Atheist perspective, the brain creates this non-physical experience you yourself refer to yourself. But the theists sees the perpetual identity and the self as a soul, with a reality aside from the experience. The reality of the self being something beyond just an experience generated by the brain arguably is a manifest thing anyone can witness just by observing themselves. We are something, not just an experience/program generated by the brain.
