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Claiming the S-Word — The Skeptical Hippie

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To me, spirituality has two facets. One is the act of making meaning of things. We do this continuously—telling stories, devising models, naming truths. We do it unconsciously in our sensory perception, and often just as unconsciously in our egos spinning the tales of our identities and life stories and the fate of the universe, as well as consciously in our analytical activities. Everything we can experience is fair game. The most literal, rational among us who are not comfortable using the S-word, their science gives them a place in the universe and fills the role. The other aspect is mysticism, the feeling of nexus and connection and awe, the sublimation of boundary between self and other, the feeling of resonance of a truth deep in our bones, that special sympathetic sense that turns hypothetical meanings into living ones. I do not believe in mind-over-matter. Our spiritual configuration does not change the world outside of our minds. Spirituality is purely an aspect of our cogniti

The S-word is spirituality . What is spirituality? Everyone uses the S-word differently, so I'll clarify. To me, spirituality has two facets. One is the act of making meaning of things. We do this continuously—telling stories, devising models, naming truths. We do it unconsciously in our sensory perception, and often just as unconsciously in our egos spinning the tales of our identities and life stories and the fate of the universe, as well as consciously in our analytical activities. Everything we can experience is fair game. The most literal, rational among us who are not comfortable using t

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