[troutman]

Originally Posted by Mayer

I guess it depends on how you define spirituality really. I think a lot of what people call spirituality is indeed "fluff". I have no doubts that Buddha and the Dalai Lama did indeed show immense wisdom in their teachings. I'm more referring to people who claim spirituality through being "one with the earth" and other crap like that. There are a lot of things out there that people think is so spiritual, but it's just not.

I find my spirituality through a relationship with Christ. I can't claim to have all the answers to these kind of questions, but again, it comes back to the question of what being "spiritual" really means.

Too many of our best scholars, themselves indoctrinated from infancy in a religion of one kind or another based upon the Bible, are so locked into the idea of their own god as a supernatural fact -- something final, not symbolic of transcendence, but a personage with a character and will of his own - that they are unable to grasp the idea of a worship that is not of the symbol but of its reference, which is of a mystery of much greater age and of more immediate inward reality than the name-and-form of any historical ethinic idea of a deity, whatsoever ... and is of a sophistication that makes the sentimentalism of our popular Bible-story theology seem undeveloped.
-- Joseph Campbell, quoted from Famous Dead Non-theists