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Clarence Couch wrote:
Have you never stood beside an ocean, looked over a field of wild flowers, walked thru a fresh forest in the spring or in the fall when the leaves are "ablaze' with red and yellow and orange, lay on the floor and have a "puppy pile-up", laughed so hard you cried and almost peed your pants" and it felt so good, right to your core? That's spiritual (and doesn't have to invlolve religion, which implies doctrine).
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Maybe it's the gap of translation.
I think the things you describe wouldn't be called spiritual in german.
Beauty or emotions sure can be spiritual experiences, but only if you put them in a religious context in the broadest sense.
The beauty of gods creation or of our mother earth.
The hapiness of a person, which is "whole" or god's child.
Spirituality ist a term closely tied to religious beliefs or the "transcendent reality". It connects the material and the transcendent world.
Carsten