[Pat_Murph]

We would need to start by defining what spirituality is...

For me it's a vague, meaningless word that people like to use without ever defining it. And it's meaning ehen5rhere is one. Is completly diffeent9from person to person...

So for me utterly useless.

[MailleQuiMaille]

Etymologically speaking, spirituality is related to, well spiritus, related to soul, spirit, vital principles and so on. Religion on the other end comes from religare, which means to bind.

Can you see the difference in meaning of this two words ? One talks about ethereal things without boundaries but the other bounds you to something…

To answer your point, spirituality is broadly speaking your relationship with the invisible world. Is life to you purely material, explored only through the senses or is there more ?

[jfactorial]

> spirituality is broadly speaking your relationship with the invisible world. Is life to you purely material, explored only through the senses or is there more ?

By "invisible" I doubt that you mean simply "unable to be seen with the naked eye," since there are of course many things that are only visible using tools (microscopes, telescopes, infrared cameras, etc.)

By "invisible" you might mean aspects of the world which cannot be sensed with any of our human senses using any technology at all, you have a challenge before you: proving they exist.

Perhaps by "the invisible world" you're referring to abstractions or concepts, e.g. "altruism" or "love" or "evil"? But if so, in this instance I think there must be material evidence for these things for one's belief in them to be rational.

The assertion that an immaterial thing exists, but its existence and any effect of its existence are utterly unobservable, is no different from asserting that the thing does not in fact exist.

So life is effectively purely material. One may assert that there is an unobservable unsensible immaterial reality, but this assertion is ultimately meaningless to us.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

It's purely material.

When I see a beautiful sunset or listen to music I like, or fall in love, those are all material.

I too do not understand spirituality

[fragmede]

spirituality is just the modern word for religion. it's each person's deeper meaning to life beyond this material world, if there is one.

[dalyons]

“Religion” heavily implies an institution, an organization of people, buildings, etc. spirituality typically means none of this. “Unorganized religion” perhaps?

[akomtu]

Spirit is like the law that governs the nature. It's the laws of physics to a materialist.