@okiestache
Yes, in any case, it's definitely about the non-material side of human experience; the subjective rather than the objective.

I think we each must decide how we intend to envision "spirit" or "spirituality". No one gets to dictate for others; we must choose for ourselves. And we can choose in a way that maintains a focus on what we have in common, or we can choose in a way that divides people into warring camps.

Instead of focusing on our differences, when I go looking for what I might have in common with people who believe differently from me, I am always surprised by how much I find. The roots of the word "spirit" and its derivatives reach deep into our common past and bind us all together in a universal human quest for liberation from suffering.

In the final analysis, whether an individual envisions, say, the spirit of giving, personified as a Santa or a Jesus on the one hand, or they see it through a scientific lens as genetically embedded evolutionary altruism may not be as important as whether they can embrace our common needs to maintain emotional buoyancy and community cohesion.

All humans are complex, psychological creatures. Pre-science cultures referred to the psychological as "spiritual". They, as do many people today, may have imagined those spirits inaccurately, but the psychological phenomena they were referring to inhabit us all, no matter how we name them.

My claim is that the apparently non-religious expression "team spirit" and the religious sounding "spirituality" are in fact referring to one and the same human psychology. We're all psychological, whether we understand it in religious or secular terminology.

Every human culture throughout our two or three hundred thousand year existence and in all locations on the globe did not independently invent an invisible world for which there is absolutely no evidence. They all had ample solid evidence of psychological suffering, and described it as best they could.

Everyone is spiritual. Those who adopt psychological management practices are religious. Or call it whatever you like. Our troublesome psychology and our common need to tame it will continue marching forward under whatever banner we impose upon it.

@okiestache The supernatural encircles love. I've been there.

@okiestache No need to prove anything. Proof is not part of the equation.

@okiestache When you ar etalkign of one's own "sporit" it doesnt' alwasy mean spirit or soul, or include a belief in the supernatural or paranormal.