Sketch: What Spiritual People Say about Spirit and Spirituality – testimonials of what real people say about real experiences – a tapestry of diverse perspectives

Wolfgang Pauli “To me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.”[1]  

It would seem “our reality” isn’t working all that well.

Albert Einstein stated: We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them[2].

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”[3] ― Saint Gregory Of Nyssa

New Integrative Approach, Synthesis-Consensus of Jung, Frankl, & W. James:

             Spirit Creates Meaning and a Sense of Reality

“Our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity!”[4] – Albert Einstein

1. Dr. Paul Wong, a world-renowned Christian psychologist,

author/editor of The Human Quest for Meaning: Theories, Research, and Applications (Personality and Clinical Psychology), and keynote speaker at a recent worldwide logotherapy convention made some thoughtful comments about the synthesis-consensus of Frankl, Jung, and William Hames. Dr. Paul Wong stated “Your approach is new in the sense of a broad-minded integrative approach, breaking down the artificial traditional divide between science and religious, or scientific psychology versus humanistic or psychoanalytic psychology.”[5] Adding that “A new integrative approach” would be suitable.” In a nutshell, the argument the New Integrative Approach makes is that there is a synthesis-consensus among Durkheim, William James, Viktor Frankl and Carl Jung that spiritual experiences can create meaning and a sense of reality.

Consistent with the Synthesis-Consensus of Frankl, James, Jung and Durkheim there appears to be a few universal beliefs of most “spiritual” people.

1. Spiritual experiences help them make sense of the world
2. Spiritual beliefs are a major source of motivation in their lives
3. Spirituality is also an important source of creativity – and energy
4. William James and Carl Jung emphasize that “abstractions” and spiritual symbols engage powerful emotions – likely helpful in grieving    

• “I am I, plus my circumstances”[6] – O Gasset,

Spirituality is about “people” – NOT the supernatural

Studies consistently reveal somewhere between 1/3 to half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences, of one sort or another. Dr. Ingela Visuri observes that “distress” can be a factor in triggering autistic spiritual experiences in autistics, Scholar and author, Jean MacPhail observes that “stress” has been a factor in her spiritual experiences. Death of a close personal friend or relative, of course can, of course be very stressful – which dovetails into the James-Frankl-Jung consensus that spiritual experiences create meaning and help people make sense of the world. Researchers and scholars of spirituality highlight the fact that it is an “emerging” field of research. Grieving is an area that has received a fair amount of attention – which, again, dovetails into the James, Frankl, Jung synthesis-consensus.

Spiritual Experiences in Grieving as Adaptive Mechanisms

1.         Easterling (et al): “Conversely, experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can “actualize” their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.[7]  

2.         Julie Parker: study finds that “continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive, and spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief.”[8]

3.         Gabriella Kilianova highlights the views of a Catholic priest in Slovakia. The priest “assumed that such dreams help people deal with the loss of their loved ones.”  That does appear to be part of pastoral folklore as it were.  But also because of the priest’s reflections and comments about the afterlife and connections with souls departed[9].

4.         Adams and Hyde: “Qualitative studies have shown that some children reflect on their dreams and find meaning in them, with some of these dreams making a spiritual impact!”[10] 

Edna: In that light I thought I would begin with Edna’s story of her struggle with the death of her father. Edna: “I began to understand then, that everything I needed to overcome the turmoil that I was experiencing, was within myself … Spirituality became a part of my life, and was repeatedly looked upon for understanding in other situations. My spirituality is a part of my very existence that is made up of hopes, mysteries, and values. It is shown in my interactions with others, and in my writing … It is the light of being that gives meaning and understanding to everything and everyone that I encounter. I give thanks to the spirituality within me.”

You wouldn’t ordinarily think a 12-year-old could write something as sophisticated and profound as that – but this was written by “Edna (12), struggling with the death of her father,” One small study revealed that 68 out of 125 people who are grieving – not surprisingly – engage spirituality. [11](Scott∗, Daniel G. “Retrospective spiritual narratives: Exploring recalled childhood and adolescent spiritual experiences.” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality 9, no. 1 (2004): 67-79.)

Barbara: In the grieving theme, here is a message from Barbara, a poet from Italy: from Barbara an Italian poet – “Touché my dear Poet friend Charlie! Really interesting…Briefly, I say that I have a particular sensitivity through dreams. My poetry was born from this. In hospital my mother was dying I was dreaming of her in the early morning, greeting me with a rich symbolism of signs and words. She was leaving with her deceased brother, happy and radiant, leaving me with an equal serenity. The phone rang, she had just flown. Two days later I started writing, my soul was filled with poetry. And other facts in dreams linked my life to the afterlife, I inherited this gift from my grandmother. 🙏🏼⭐😘💖🌹

• Prophetic Inspiration: Poets and Spirituality: Abraham Heschel (1907 – 1972), observed:

Prophetic Inspiration is still a force: “The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to poets. What poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine revelation Psychologically considered, prophetic inspiration is not materially different from furor poeticus [ the divine frenzy or poetic madness] of the master-poet or artist. The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.”[12] (p.468-469) From a certian perspective one could also say that poets are prophets at times.

“This besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness!”

In the epic novel, Steppenwolf, written by Hermann Hesse and first published in 1927, it would appear that some of the writing in the novel could, in truth, be considered properly prophetic – especially in regard to some of the psychological and spiritual aspects of our contemporary society and culture. Steppenwolf, the character and the central individual in the novel, decries the empty essence and of his society, when he proclaims, “Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! …. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”[13] (p. 48-49)

D. What spiritual people say about spirituality!

1, Gerlinde Staffler, an award-winning poetess: brief bio and views

I’m Gerlinde Staffler, a writer from Italy, I started to write in September 2020. My poems are mostly emotional and strongly philosophic and spiritual! These sides in me are the motivations to live the life in fullest way! Spirituality is a limitless dimension of human experience and has a special approach to life, where research and inner growth counts, extending our life to a deeper level of existence that brings balance to body, mind and soul.

4, Linda Skarrup

Linda Skarrup, a Buddhist, observed that “Spirit” covers a wide range of beliefs and experiences that are personal! I don’t think it’s possible to pin it down to just one ‘thing’…. for myself, it was a gradual awakening as to who, I AM. It was always there waiting, my first direct experience was at a meditation retreat in Montana… 30 days, no talking, nothing but meditation, food, sleep. One morning, while watching the snow come down outside through a big picture window, I heard the phrase: “this”, is all there is”! Later Linda added “My spiritual practices GOT ME TO HERE! There are many paths, many teachings and many teachers…. seek and you will find the right One For You…

Last year when I started my spiritual awakening, coming from a life of agnosticism and eventual atheism, I felt that I was only now beginning to reclaim something that was stolen from me a long time ago.

5, Annie, a psychology student in a master’s program:

I went through a major ‘dark night of the soul’ for a few years that led me to question and dig deep deeper into my false beliefs and what is really going on in the world. In a separate comment she told me that “Spirit is definitely primordial – existing prior to, within and after material. Everything is energy. Like a fish in water, many are just unaware. It’s also largely a highly personal experience so the experience may come sooner for others or not at all if they choose to look at a superficial level.

Almost all of education unfortunately focuses on developing and using the left-brain, logical mind and not the right- brain creative mind. Both must be balanced. When people are stuck in the left-brain, they will never understand your spiritual message. The unconscious speaks in symbols and is the key to spiritual truths but people no longer understand how to use this. I feel it is by design….”

Similar to Linda, and Angle, Annie’s concept of spirit in that it is “pervasive in consciousness” (everything) and a way of thinking is “everything” as well. She also talks about energy. A moment’s consideration of how science might objectively describe or define life in an abstract way, describing “life” as energy or an energy system would seem likely candidates.

6, Mirabai, an independent woman with some hybrid beliefs parallel (though likely very different as well) – to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s hybrid beliefs. Tulsi Gabbard says that “I was raised in a multi-faith family studying both the Christian and Hindu scriptures. We observed Christmas and Janmastami (the birth of Jesus and the birth of Krishna). So, my two primary sources of inspiration, spiritual comfort, and illumination come from the New Testament, and the Bhagavad Gita (the song of God), the ancient Hindu scripture spoken over 5000 years ago.” (from Tulsi’s website https://www.tulsigabbard.com/about/my-spiritual-path)

Mirabai states that “In our Vedas teachings, we each have a Dharma…a sort of duty… There is the Dharma of an educator…there is the Dharma of an intellectual person…who will always be in the pursuit of gaining knowledge…& enlightening others about it… There is also the warrior Dharma…The merchant Dharma… The labourer Dharma… The other is the outsider Dharma… These are the people who change things… None is superior or inferior. All the above is needed for us to function in this world, relying on each other’s Dharma.” That is each individual has their own cosmic divine destiny – or dharma. Again, this is very parallel to both the Corinthians as well as to Marwa’s views.

One focus of Mirabai is Santana Dharma. Santana dharma, in Hinduism, term used to denote the “eternal” or absolute set of duties or religiously ordained practices incumbent upon all Hindus, regardless of class, caste, or sect. Different texts give different lists of the duties, but in general Santana dharma consists of virtues such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity, and asceticism.

8.  Sarah, who has had a few spiritual-psychic experiences expressed her understanding as “Religious and spiritual frameworks allow human beings to co-exist comfortably with mystery and unknowing. My relationship to God is limited by my cognition (ability to intellectually conceive or imagine) It is also outside the scope of my material perception (eyesight, hearing, etc.)  Yet, this relationship is essential to my existence. Technology has benefited mankind enormously but it has limits and can be used for bad ends.”

9. Dr Paul Wong:  A metaphor of light within the meaning of meaning

The best metaphor for meaning in life is LIGHT.

When we feel lost in the dark, we need LIGHT to show us the way to our destination.

When we don’t know what is happening in the dark, we need LIGHT to understanding the situation and our role in it…

When we cannot see ourselves in the dark, we need LIGHT to see our true self.

When we feel the horror of night, we need to discover the LIGHT of shining stars in the dark sky.

When we don’t know how to make our life significant, we need to endure sacrifice or burning in order to give LIGHT.

by Dr. Paul Wong

10. Marwa a Muslim woman who has had spiritual experiences of her own and has a beautiful poem about the “spirit eye” which many people like when I posted it. Marwa’s spiritual experiences do appear parallel to “dark nights of the soul” as the psychology masters student explained it.

Of her own spiritual experiences Marwa said her spiritual experiences are a “Gift by Allah, giving to those who love believing in him, and give them this spiritual gift” – a “gift and will commit leading to creativity and geniuses.” Marwa went on to say that different people have different “gifts” – much as Corinthians in the New Testament lays out about gifts – such as the gift of wisdom, clemency and patience. gentleness and patience, bravery, intense faith, resourcefulness, and leadership, as well as discernment and inspiration.  

11. Marija Najthefer Popov: An Award-winning Poetess from Sivac, Serbia Marija says that her poetry focuses on “Love, the beauty of the rose … and all my songs are focused on the essence of a woman. A woman’s mother, daughter, sister, lover is lonely … a woman and a woman’s inner nerve. There are countless women in me. I write about them. Spirituality but, that spirituality is so magical, so elusive …. to everyone … Only hypersensitive women are filled with that spirituality and only those, such, can feel, experience … all emotions and all passions ….”

“The construction of a new idea of reality!” New pragmatic-creative approach – categorization of types of spirituality

Dr S Neal (JHU): said that she [psychiatry] had no training in people w/ spiritual experiences.’ Park & Paloutzian: “Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences”- short list of APA “anomalous experiences, hallucinations, near death, past life, mystical, and paranormal experiences!”[14] (w/ no “people”). J E Kennedy: “Very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects” on people”[15] I Visuri: “There is a difference between analyzing experiences and researching people.” I strongly re-emphasize the fact that researchers and scholars all highlight the fact that the study of spiritual and religious beliefs is an “emerging field of study”[16].

Wolfgang Pauli “to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.”[17]

New Categorization

“Spirituality is a natural human predisposition! It is more primal than institutional religion and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and world!” K. Bishop, B Hyde – A Killin: “The oldest known musical instruments [date] from 40,000 years ago….”[18] 

1. Musical Spiritual – Social Self: “Music is a fundamental part of our evolution – and functional because it facilitates “human contact” and out “social self!”[19] – J Schulkin, G Raglan; ‘musicality’ is a property of communities rather than of individuals”[20] I Cross

2. Saslow “link between spirituality and higher compassion…Spirituality was especially associated with having a spiritual identity, having had transcendent experiences, and tending to pray…….spiritual participants… tend to feel compassion”[21] Sprecher + Fehr: correlation between spirituality and compassion[22] + V Frankl’s principle: “human beings have a spiritual core with an innate need for meaning….”[23]

3. Spirituality & Grieving: Easterling: “individuals do seem to cope better if they can “actualize” their spiritual experiences in times of crisis”[24] + J Parker 

4.  Relational spirituality – spiritual self: “Hay and Nye: spirituality involves a deep-down awareness of one’s relationship with one’s self, and with everything that is other than one’s self.”[25]

a.  Filipino Kapwa-loob & pro-social norms: “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others – belongingness-social consciousness: J D Espiritu, M Zosa, R Ileto, J Reyes, Mercado, Jose De Mesa… [26]

b. Dream Weaving: T’boli-Bla’an Dreams as a source of divine inspiration – T’boli Be Lang Dulay, created over 100 different T’nalak designs.[27]

c. “Human relationships with the natural world” as arctic hunter gatherer spiritual beliefs in animal spirits (Erica Hill)[28]

5. Children’s Spirituality “experiences can catalyze self- healing for children and young people.”[29] Donna Thomas +D. Scott

6. Artistic Spirituality: 20 percent of Americans turn to “media, arts and culture” as their primary means of spiritual experience and expression….”[30]

7. Poetry & Prophecy: “The prophet is a poet. What poets know as poetic inspiration; the prophets call divine revelation”[31] – Heschel

8. Dr. Ingela Visuri: Spirituality and “The Case of High functioning Autism” – “unexplainable sensory experiences”[32] 

Commentary:

McGilChrist, M Sherif, Kant: “real world context” is vital- People are the only source of real-world context for spiritual-religious beliefs.[33]  2. K Gergen: “Proper knowledge maps the real world!!”[34] – “To understand something, depends on choosing a model!”[35]  I McGilChrist

Proper Scientific Method requires a proper categorization be done before analysis – which – believe it or not – was not done.

“It is only a narrow passage of truth that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism.  There will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”[36] – Wolfgang Pauli 

Wolfgang Pauli highlights the intrinsic dilemma of consciousness in the polarity between mysticism – holistic synthesis vs sterile rationalism. The materialist “rigid adherence” to quantification, which as McGilChrist emphasizes, “limits and restricts” possible analyses and solutions produces a counterproductive and sterile rationalism.

Fruitful; and Functional Spirituality vs the Supernatural

Brian D Josephson, a Nobel-prize winning quantum physicist – the only Welshman to earn the Nobel peace prize – observes, “With religion, focusing on the factuality or otherwise of religious belief similarly misses the point: the significant questions in this context relate to the functions and fruitfulness of religious beliefs.”  That is, scientists are fixated on the “supernatural.”[37]

A Major Methodology Flaw

Briefly I would add that the “supernatural”, by definition, is ‘beyond the scope of scientific inquiry’ makes the “supernatural concept” a “loaded” term and thus a Definist fallacy. Yet, the supernatural concept is pervasive and appears in many dictionary definitions of myth and prophecy. 

When I asked my partner, who is a Filipina Catholic, if “God is supernatural?” She replied yes. I pointed out that Jesus Christ never once used the word “supernatural” in the gospels and the concept of the holy Spirit in no way matches the materialist concept of the “Supernatural” – for example, Spirit and Truth – John 4:23-24; Spirit is Truth – John 5:6; or guidance – Luke 1:27. Even worst, the supernatural comes with baggage – such as powers, superstitious nonsense, magic, mental illness. Dr Koenig highlights the fact that historically psychiatry at times views transcendental spiritual experiences as “psychosis!”  I felt good that, she strongly agrees with my point – and several of my other Christian connections also agree that is a valid point. Without doubt the supernatural maladaptive stereotype has distorted the thinking and redirected the “attention” of millions of people to a meaningless, empty abstraction – a major maladaptive stereotype.

I would add that Kant, Iain McGilChrist and Muzafer Sherif agree that “real-world context-evidence” is necessary for any valid scientific theory – and by definition, the “supernatural” concept has ZERO real world context – NONE!  The materialist “supernatural” concept is Not a valid scientific concept or idea!! Yet that is how materialists successfully managed to equate all spirituality as unreal and superstitious nonsense.

My theory is that “spiritual people are people!” From a scientific perspective, “people” are the only possible source of “real-world context-evidence” It is clear that the problem with spirituality is that it got entangled in abstractions. The “supernatural” is an abstraction – an empty distorted abstraction at that.  

“When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead and the White Knight is talking backwards!”

 Peer Reviewed 2018 Critique of Materialist Methodology Endorsed by Dr Harold Koenig, Dr Paul Wong, Dr S Farra, S Schindler

William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen state, “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” “Intangible and beyond the senses are “loaded” terms putting the materialist maxim in the category of “Definist Fallacies” – which occurs when someone unfairly defines a term so that a controversial position is made easier to defend. Same as the Persuasive Definition.”[38] (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

When Death becomes a Figment of your imagination – Narrative Illustration:

Not all that long ago, I happened to be talking with a Filipina college student at a street restaurant in General Santos, Philippines. I went over the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article as “the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” Since Filipinas have a reputation for being spiritual, I was a bit surprised when the Filipina college student/graduate agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal because it is “intangible’. So, I asked her to consider – for a moment – the concept of “death!” I emphasized that out that – of all things – “death” is “intangible and beyond the senses” and way beyond quantification. Then I pointed out that if you then follow the logic and reasoning of the materialist argument, “Death – then – becomes a “figment of her imagination and superstitious nonsense.” She paused for a second, then agreed with my reasoning – which was a major success for me.

Of course, the idea of death being a “figment of your imagination and unreal” is totally absurd. But then again, the statement that “all spirituality is unreal” is equally absurd and wrong on several levels. First it is a fallacy – a “delusion”! Secondly there are a number of very “tangible” types of spirituality: Spirituality of Compassion, Musical Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences and Healing in Grieving, Children’s Spirituality, Artistic Spirituality, Poetry and Prophecy, Dream Weaving/Creative Transcendence, Spirituality in nature as a living force, and Autistic spirituality

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