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