What is Spirituality?
In this investigation, why not drop all preconceptions, beliefs, religious and cultural ideas and explore the idea directly?
A little AI
The definition given by ChatGTP AI in scholar mode for the word “Spirituality” states: The term “Spirituality” comes from Latin. It stems from the root word “spiritus,” meaning “breath.”
This root word, “Breath,” is deeply significant, as life is impossible without breath. So simply, Spirituality’s core is the “breath of life.”
Be it the nature of language and the intellect, something defined simply as the breath or the breath of life has become one of history’s most discussed, fought over, manipulated, and exploited words, particularly when extended into religion.
Striving
The very reason this word is so potent and so convoluted is that it describes the striving in each and every one of us to become something more. This is innate to all life, to grow, to become, from a flower to human; this stirring is the very propulsion of our existence, the driver of life. Yes, very much like a breath.
The intellect interprets this striving from within through applying logic as a goal to be achieved. Get this, get that, whether it be…
