Spirituality
Whether or not they identify as “spiritual” or “religious,” this site encourages everyone to engage in self-development, especially concerning overcoming or controlling oppressive domination and submission. Many people consider this self-improvement to be spiritual, but others do not.
For instance, some humanists don’t embrace the concept of a “god,” “supreme being,” or “higher,” transcendent order. They identify as atheists or agnostics and reject the notion that a spiritual path is necessary for personal growth or making a positive impact on the world. This site respects these views.
Insisting on the use of certain words is idolatry. Worshiping specific abstract concepts is problematic. Such dogmatic beliefs lead to rigid ideologies.
This site instead focuses on exploring and understanding concrete experiences and fosters a non-dogmatic and open-minded approach.
Do you:
Sometimes feel at one with Nature and experience a sense of awe and mystery?
Believe the mind is boundless, beyond material limits?
Meditate or use breathing exercises to relax?
Value intuition and inspiration?
Appreciate being spontaneous without thinking about your actions first?
Have a sense of self that is other than the body?
Engage in self-examination?
Uncover hidden, sub-conscious, or unconscious experiences?
Affirm an energy that animates life?
Feel this life force coursing through your body?
Believe a natural order integrated with the material world minimizes chaos and stabilizes the universe?
If you answer yes to most or all of these questions, you may consider yourself “spiritual.” You may believe that the body is necessarily enspirited and the spirit is necessarily enfleshed.
Affirmations of these invisible, nonmaterial realities reflect this site’s definition of “spiritual.” At the same time, the site supports people who don’t use that word but nevertheless promote compassionate personal growth aimed at undoing oppressive domination and submission and reforming the Top-Down System.