Are there any spiritual atheists out there? I don't buy into any man-made religions, but still believe we all have a spiritual connection.
Yes, I am.
I was also born psychic, as was my mom and sister, and we saw more UFOs than I can count, while I was growing up in Haiti, almost always with multiple witnesses, including my husband, when one followed us for 300 miles in 1973.
In Haiti, we MKs, missionary kids, didn't have have phones, so we coordinated our beach plans with ESP, and my mom used esp to wake us up in the morning. We'd hear her speaking in our heads,"GET UP" and nearly bang our heads on the bunks above us.
I also always ride my horses without bridle or saddle, using my mind to instruct them, so we ride as one. Avatar captured that idea pretty well...it's actually true. My horses did whatever I thought, as I thought it.
I have always taken such things for granted and am amused by the way Americans treat anything like that as "crazy," so I just block people on this website who troll me.
Define spiritual.
I expect that you mean some emotional state of mind, some sense of connectedness,
Why does that need a supernatural element at all?
Where is the spirit in "spiritual"?
Eons ago Religion hijacked vast swaths of the human experience and labled it with their religious terms. We can all have experiences, but we need not use religions terminologies and mythologies to describe them.
So no, I am not "spiritual"
I am human through and through
I think that to be Spiritual is to have deep awareness of the staggering implications of the mystery of existence and conscious awareness, and to realize that our perception of reality is merely symbolic and is not the real thing.
That’s not to say there’s some kind of supernatural realm, but there really is an aspect of nature that we can’t understand with our human oriented space/time/matter model.
I agree that the term is overused and trite, but so are a lot of other words.
I would not call myself spritual. I do believe there is a life force, or energy. The energy that happens in birth, the release of energy in death, the energy of rotting and returning the chemicals that make us, back into the earth, or if you are cremated, back into the air. I am atheist, but I am also pagan. I don't believe in the old gods and goddesses, but I respect what they represent. The primal energy of the ancient ones, is very supressed now, in the age of technology, but it seems to be ever present, in nature. I think science is correct in how life started on earth. It was basically a chemical reaction, that makes energy. Maybe that is spiritual. Maybe it is magical. Maybe it is mundane, but I see the mystery and magic in science and math ( I don't mean magic like a magician makes), but the thing that makes us alive, and the symmetry of things like the Fibonocci Sequence, occuring naturally.
The Fibonacci sequence definitely speaks to me and I feel it has a connection to our existences
Hmm... Spiritual implies there is some form of 'spirit' and or higher power being... I don't believe in that.
You used the word connection ... I can get behind that in as much as we are all made up of the same stuff, that we all come from star dust, or whatever. We are connected in a way that what I do may affect others, and we must be aware that our actions have consequences beyond ourselves.
Beyond that... is there a cosmic tally sheet that's keeping score of who does what and why? I'm gonna say no.
I agree that there's no scorecard or karma, but I do believe all beings have an innate spirituality Too bad it's been perverted by religion.
A "spiritual" connection to what and what might that "spiritual" connection be? Spiritual implies invisable and imaginary, with no evidence, facts or data to support it so it is just somethng humans create in their brains and minds based on nothing more than wishful thinking. As long as you do/cause no harm, live the life that you want to live. IMHO
I disagree. Please explain.
I think we have mental abilities not yet fully understood by science and we have mislabeled it for lack of s better term. So I’m spiritual in that I seek these connections and attempt to explore what science has only begining to understand... but I don’t believe in a spirit that can be described as an intelligence outside of our own minds. It’s more of an awareness that comes from allowing the rest of the mind to be silent.
Totally agree
I used to think I was spiritual-now I use the term freethinker.
Seems to me to be the same thing , but religion has destroyed our innate spirituality