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Old 12th July 2008, 07:38 PM
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The spiritual is what animates all of creation.

Your eyes cannot perceive outside of its narrow band of frequency, yet this does not mean that all you cannot perceive does not exist.
That is an arrogance that many have:
(if the tree falls in the forest but there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound? and other equally crazy questions).

We are rather new still to the technology game having just emerged from medieval times which still linger in our collective consciousness and so there is lots to learn of which we are still completely ignorant of scientifically and so we clump these things into the spiritual and paranormal catagories.
Doesn't mean these things we don't comprehend yet do not exist.

To argue otherwise identifies one as of the type which imprisoned Galileo.
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Old 13th July 2008, 03:14 PM
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No one can explain how humans can achieve the nature of a different species but we continue to deceive ourselves we can be spiritual.


I disagree.... It seems to me like we humans have an innate sense of something sacred or spiritual, the only people who are agnostic or atheist are people raised either in some sort of disgustingly conservative/orthodox religion, or scientific materialist and had it drilled out of them...at least, that's how I see it.
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The way a friend described it to me once is like this:

Religion: comes from the same root as "ligament," and other similar words, so it has to do (at least the original meaning) with reconnection with some sense of sacredness/reverence, etc.

Spirituality: comes from the idea of some sort of other reality, with spirits/non-corporeal beings, etc.

My friend says he is always certain of religion in the sense of reconnection and not always so certain of spirituality, because of the assumptions one must make regarding other dimensions of being/reality that have non-physical beings, etc...

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