Maybe it’s that we lack language to articulate what are in fact perfectly bioelectrochemical experiences, due to millennia of religious dominance? And so when we need to describe these inner states, we resort to the language of spirituality?
From this perspective, “what’s up with spirituality” is another way of saying “what’s up with having feelings, especially important and meaningful and hard-to-explain feelings” and “why are people into exploring their feelings?” Which is totally a valid question.
But automatically couching it in terms of “what’s up with spirituality” seems, to me, to be a symptom of the history of language and politics. Are you more interested in the feelings, the framework, or the culturally-specific ways in which people connect the two?
Maybe it’s that we lack language to articulate what are in fact perfectly bioelectrochemical experiences, due to millennia of religious dominance? And so when we need to describe these inner states, we resort to the language of spirituality?
From this perspective, “what’s up with spirituality” is another way of saying “what’s up with having feelings, especially important and meaningful and hard-to-explain feelings” and “why are people into exploring their feelings?” Which is totally a valid question.
But automatically couching it in terms of “what’s up with spirituality” seems, to me, to be a symptom of the history of language and politics. Are you more interested in the feelings, the framework, or the culturally-specific ways in which people connect the two?