I agree with your postulate. Yeah... except I am still "stuck" in religion as a natural human lomging to exist connecting physicality and metaphyisicality in whatever way one experiences it as meaningful... I think "religion" as a distorted wired construct is toxic... I have been navigating the waters of existentialism for years looking for a way to describe such "intuitive religion" which is not institutional, dogmatic... I speak of a "sense of beyondness," an existetial space that can cause anxiety because there is no tangibility or "arrival" to it (Lacan, Derrida). I call it "existential wholeness" as an experience and people often tells me... "Too abstract"... :-) Thank you for your posts. harold
I'm talking about spirituality here, though, not religion. I'm saying that whatever spirituality can explain, existentialism can do it better. Granted, existentialism's vocabulary isn't for those who lack higher education, and much of existentialism is pompous and overcomplicated. But existentialists effectively naturalized spirituality, so existential categories are at least more consistent with the modern zeitgeist. "Spirituality" is vacuous, by comparison. When you force a spiritualist to explain what spirituality means, this person will end up appealing to existential redescriptions.
Brilliant! Another brilliant post! You are on a roll; keep it up!
Well done.
I agree with your postulate. Yeah... except I am still "stuck" in religion as a natural human lomging to exist connecting physicality and metaphyisicality in whatever way one experiences it as meaningful... I think "religion" as a distorted wired construct is toxic... I have been navigating the waters of existentialism for years looking for a way to describe such "intuitive religion" which is not institutional, dogmatic... I speak of a "sense of beyondness," an existetial space that can cause anxiety because there is no tangibility or "arrival" to it (Lacan, Derrida). I call it "existential wholeness" as an experience and people often tells me... "Too abstract"... :-) Thank you for your posts. harold
I'm talking about spirituality here, though, not religion. I'm saying that whatever spirituality can explain, existentialism can do it better. Granted, existentialism's vocabulary isn't for those who lack higher education, and much of existentialism is pompous and overcomplicated. But existentialists effectively naturalized spirituality, so existential categories are at least more consistent with the modern zeitgeist. "Spirituality" is vacuous, by comparison. When you force a spiritualist to explain what spirituality means, this person will end up appealing to existential redescriptions.
I agree! Thank you!