[QUOTE=Namchuck;336006]It would completely depend, alanna25, on how one defined 'spirituality'. I would suggest that authentic spirituality has nothing to do with either organized religion, spiritism, channelling, or any other form of delusion, but the relationship of a conscious mind with the cosmos.
Look at the awe and wonder in a child's eyes as water runs through his or her fingers and you'll get an insight into what real spirituality is all about. It doesn't involve either religious dogma or the inward emptiness that leads to the pathetic gobbledegook of spiritualism.[/QUOTE]
The kind of closed-mindedness and arrogance that you are demonstrating here also does not lead to real spirituality. For many people, spirits and the spiritual world are reality because they experience personally. You can't tell someone who has seen spirits that they don't exist. For these people, they find just as much fascination in exploring these realities as you say a child finds in running water through his/her fingers. This doesn't mean they are delusional. It probably means that they are aware of realities that you are blind to.
If you come in here and insult different belief systems, you're no better than the worst fundamentalist religious believers.
[QUOTE=alanna25;314969]I am having a discussion with a friend who believes by the definition of the word "religion" and "organized" that spirituality falls within the definitions, hence, spirituality is considered an organized religion.
A particular area of spirituality/spiritism, channeling, he also considers to be "organized religion". I wanted to know, from people who practice spirituality, do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?
BTW, I think he is wrong, as spirituality doesn't have the same structure as organized religions have.
Thoughts?
Alanna[/QUOTE]
It would completely depend, alanna25, on how one defined 'spirituality'. I would suggest that authentic spirituality has nothing to do with either organized religion, spiritism, channelling, or any other form of delusion, but the relationship of a conscious mind with the cosmos.
Look at the awe and wonder in a child's eyes as water runs through his or her fingers and you'll get an insight into what real spirituality is all about.
It doesn't involve either religious dogma or the inward emptiness that leads to the pathetic gobbledegook of spiritualism.
I am having a discussion with a friend who believes by the definition of the word "religion" and "organized" that spirituality falls within the definitions, hence, spirituality is considered an organized religion.
A particular area of spirituality/spiritism, channeling, he also considers to be "organized religion". I wanted to know, from people who practice spirituality, do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?
BTW, I think he is wrong, as spirituality doesn't have the same structure as organized religions have.
