Spiritual Atheist here!

[Child of Stardust]

That's a very interesting point of view you have, albeit ill-defined.

Which is great, because you offer a different perspective on matters, and I appreciate the effort you took to describe what you felt. Normally atheist and skeptic are synonymous so its refreshing to see someone who defies the definition.

Look forward to your posts

Thanks very much! I hope I can express my views more clearly in the future.

Like you say, imagination itself is clearly a part of secular reality and therefore imagination is just as 'real' as reality.

Nothing gets any more real than that. In fact, without imagination consciousness itself may not even be possible. Especially in terms of sentience. After all, if a purely secular reality is true, then sentience itself is nothing more than our very own imagination that we are sovereign beings who have free will.

So in that sense, imagination would be the very core of what we are in a purely secular world.

Thus to shun the imagination is to shun the very essence of our being.

Bingo. Brilliantly said, actually.

You seem very interesting Look forward to seeing more posts from you

Thanks! It would be pretty much the worst thing in the world to me to be seen as "boring", so those words mean a lot.

And many thanks for the welcomes to everyone. See you round the forums!

[Blanca]

I also very much appreciate and value the power the anthropomorphic spiritual archetypes

I love how you worded this. What would be some examples of anthropomorphic spiritual archetypes? Just curious.

[The Grand Nudger]

Whatever you can imagine and relate to by way of laying a more human face over. Literally anything. Let's say I wanted to "facilitate a psychic experience" with all of my lost socks. Well, no worries. Dial up the fantasy, add a couple buttons and some yarn, voila, anthropomorphic spiritual archetype of all my lost socks. I'm going to call that one the goddess of mystery.