Fragments

When the subject of “religion“ arises, my experience is that most people will simply call themselves “spiritual.“ I am in the habit of asking such people if they can define for me what a “spirit” is. No person that I have asked this question has ever been able to give any answer, whether accurate or inaccurate.

I conclude that what people mean when they call themselves “spiritual“ is something like “there are things about me that are really great, and sometimes I think about or do things that seem connected to that greatness.” There might be some reference to some kind of “higher power” – also without any real clarity of meaning, or genuine motivation to go further.

In my view, this sort of lazy thinking, protected by a wall of culturally approved trivial distractions, is both toxic and dangerous.

There is at least one Spirit that has been rightly called Holy. I recommend caution for all other spirits with which one can be consciously or unconsciously connected.

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