I disagree, "spirit" can mean something other than supernatural being.
ex, to get into the spirit of something.
Spiritual on the otherhand would indicate something ethereal, at least to me...
A “Spiritual” definition
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Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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You see, "alcohol" in Latin is "spiritus" and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as for the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.
Thanking you again for your kind letter
I remain
Yours sincerely
C. G. Jung*
"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." (Psalms 42:1)
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Jung gives me a complex...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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As long as you're Jung at heart Keld.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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dgs49 wrote:Getting back to the original post, there is no need or call to go beyond the clear English meaning of the word, "spirit," which invariably refers to a being or entity which is not physical or tangible in nature. In short, a supernatural being.
Atheists disdain belief in the supernatural, as an absolute first principle.
If this writer believes that meditation is a "spiritual" experience, then he is either NOT an atheist, or he has committed a "grievous error," as his critics assert.
Actually, he has said he is not;
My concern with the use of the term “atheism” is both philosophical and strategic. I’m speaking from a somewhat unusual and perhaps paradoxical position because, while I am now one of the public voices of atheism, I never thought of myself as an atheist before being inducted to speak as one.
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We should not call ourselves “atheists.” We should not call ourselves “secularists.” We should not call ourselves “humanists,” or “secular humanists,” or “naturalists,” or “skeptics,” or “anti-theists,” or “rationalists,” or “freethinkers,” or “brights.” We should not call ourselves anything. We should go under the radar—for the rest of our lives. And while there, we should be decent, responsible people who destroy bad ideas wherever we find them.
-Sam Harris
