| Coming into one's spiritual nature can be a | | | | The term is a broad one. What is |
| startling process. Here are the basics of | | | | Spirituality? It may also be defined in terms |
| spirituality from one person's perspective, | | | | of supernatural. It is those things that go |
| which may help you along. | | | | bump in the night. The great Spiritualists of |
| | | | the past talked with the dead through various |
| Spirituality is often mistaken for religion. | | | | techniques. The name for this type of thing |
| Indeed, for most of human history the line | | | | was Spiritualism, and the connection to |
| between spirituality and religion did not | | | | spirituality is often made. Spiritualism is |
| even exist and today it is still blurred. In | | | | an explanation of the spirit. |
| most cases, religion has a much more concise | | | | |
| definition than spirituality. It is usually | | | | Since the word has so many meanings, it is |
| subject to more positive assertions about our | | | | important to view the word in the context of |
| relationship to something higher. True | | | | how it is used. Some people will view the |
| spirituality has no such limits. It only | | | | word quite differently than how you intend it |
| examines our relationship to something | | | | and will put some bad connotations on it. You |
| different. | | | | may hear it and think it means some serious |
| | | | mumbo jumbo that you must accept as faith and |
| It would seem that from the very earliest | | | | discover it means only a sense that some |
| times, man had a sense that he was not the | | | | thing is beautiful, simply for the sake of |
| same as the other animals that shared his | | | | being beautiful. |
| world. Science points to some of the reasons | | | | |
| that man is superior, but there is a place | | | | What is Spirituality? It is many things to |
| where science ends or becomes uncertain. It | | | | many people. It is about the soul and about |
| is at this point that spirituality begins. | | | | the spirit. It is about something that is |
| Spirituality, in this sense, is a part of a | | | | above us and sometimes something that is |
| person's personality. It is the part that can | | | | really all around us. It is the essence of |
| not be measured. It is the part that can not | | | | the unknown. Many associate it with religion |
| be seen or touched. It is the explanation of | | | | and some do not. We are said to be in a New |
| the soul. | | | | Age of Spirituality and the definition may be |
| | | | changing even now. |