If You Haven’t Had a Spiritual Experience, Don’t Try to “Debunk” Spirituality
There are lots of real things you have not personally experienced.
The Internet, this website in particular, is full of people telling other people what to do. I am often one of them. Everyone wants to share their story, their perspective, their knowledge, in the hopes of influencing others and improving the world, or at least of feeling heard.
For some stories, the reason behind such an impulse is obvious: the writer learned a valuable lesson and they hope, in passing it along, that others will learn the same thing more quickly and easily. For other stories, the reason seems less conscious and more personal. Some people write to complain about things they’ve seen on the Internet, likely as a means of reclaiming power they imagine was lost to these digital strangers for some reason.
Today, I am one of those:
It annoys me when people who haven’t had spiritual experiences write about how spirituality “isn’t real.”
At first glance, it might seem perfectly reasonable for such people to share their perspectives. Everyone is allowed their opinion, to be sure. Everyone is capable of constructing a logical argument. There are good, valid reasons to doubt people’s stories of…
