Most definitely. "Spirituality" is just more garbage.
It pisses me off to no end. Just like religion.

Yes, same b.s. to me. "Higher power," "energy," "souls" all mumbo jumbo to give them something else to believe in other than themselves and others--usually to take place of the religion they gave up.

I'm seldom sure what most mean by 'spiritual', for the reason that most that use that term aren't, either. "Grab-bag" is a good term, usually. Often it is feelings, mixed with woo & pseudo-science. Oftentimes it's a watered down deism or pantheism, sometimes with Eastern religious elements thrown in.
Do we have yearnings for an overarching meaning in life? Many of us do. Do we have a sense of wonder, beauty, love & more that is not easily translatable into 'material science', sure. Is this a reason to throw reason out the window & accept nebulous, unfalsifiable myths, double-talk & wishful-thinking as a real thing? I don't believe so.

Not really, I treat it the same as anything else closely or remotely related to any belief system. My stance has been and always will be that I don't care. People want to believe in God, fine... Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Spiritual....fine

For me , being spiritual merely means being concerned with more than the material.

So we have a vernacular issue ... right? So let's come up with a better term! I've heard it said that indigenous people who live in the arctic have many words for what we simply call 'snow.' The word 'love' is similarly ultra-generic. So, if there is a better term to describe an emotional state in which one 'feels' a sense of 'awe' or 'wonder' or a 'connectedness' with the universe, for instance, let's have it. Until then, we use the term 'spiritual.'

And personally, if someone tells me that they are not religious, but spiritual, I'm inclined to be much more comfortable in their company than anyone who claims to be very religious, whether or not they claim to be 'spiritual!'

Spiritual to me just means an unorganized religion instead of an organized one.

I don’t mind being labelled as ‘spiritual’ although I usually just reply I’m an atheist Buddhist.

Spirituality in a sense of supernatural ideas is only loose organized and loose defined religion.
When I talk about spirituality is those subtle interactions, feelings, ideas and sensations that I KNOW are just biochemical reactions, subcontinent communication etc, but are out of control or under the radar of your continence.
Is the difference between you know that there is a rational explanation and knowing this explanation.
Sometimes is just easier to be wondered about the capacity of our brain and our hard wiring for group behavior that feels like it is supernatural instead of freaking out looking for explanation.
So my spiritual side is:
I know there is a rational explanation, but I choose to simply enjoy this feeling/sensation without the need to explain or look for this explanation.

I'd say define your terms. Spirituality can mean anything, some of which I can relate to, like feeling connected with the cosmos, the Earth, the environment, all living creatures, and such. It can also refer to nonsense like "the universe has a plan for me" or "this was meant to be." Sure, we're all made of stardust, but so is the slime growing in the sewer system. I find peace in my meditation practice though I don't consider that a spiritual activity, though I suspect some might.

yes but to many believe in spirituality like a loose religion. My parents did and i have to say some things that can't be explained by science its hard to put a meaning to

I would say yes.. but since I am learning about Taoism (which is a form of spirituality) I also want to say no lol..

The operative term is "spirit." Spirituality is another type of magical thinking, as in, "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." Pft. No thanks.

Spirituality is the goto for those that believe their feelings are as valid as facts. No god = no afterlife = no soul = no spirit = no ghosts. It's not a hard concept. Some just don't follow the logic to its natural end. Some I've met cannot fathom that one's "energy" (i.e. their consciousness) is no more than a collection of brain wave patterns, and therefore believe their "energy" must, according to the laws of thermodynamics, go somewhere after they die. As we all know, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. It doesn't even occur to them that it is transformed into heat, which is lost to the room as the body cools.

Abso-fucking-lutely … Sometimes it is even harder to listen to. There are still a few shops selling incense sticks and other spiritual catalysts.

When we have a deep hurtful cry, that is spiritual. Deep inside our very private self , we find the need to release our self from the agony . Mindfulness, as Shefree asserts, that is it. Having a premonition or a feel is spiritual.
Religion has to do with a deity and spiritualism does not.

People who live in Glass Houses never touch down. Climb a Mountain or walk deep into the Woods and feel the forces of Nature. Most Religious Movements were founded from experiences in other lands and through different interactions with Nature. Constantine was an Pagan who had a vision in Battle. Martin Luther go caught in a Thunderstorm. Joseph Smith and a many of your televangelist use this as a ploy to induce others in the door. Joel Olsteen, Jimmy Swaggert, Pat Robertson and the Whole Southern Christian Coalition is steeped into this Showcase with Bands, Choirs and Tambourines. The Native Americans respected the Earth, Nature and each other more so then were ever given credit for except to be termed Heathens. Read a little History and see where the Nonsense came from.

If you're talking about superstitious spirituality, you have a right to be annoyed. If the mere word annoys you, that annoyance is why many people don't like atheists. We can sometimes be as impatient and intolerant as religious fanatics.

I agree that religion at least has the advantage that it has dogmas and creeds that define it, and often, a holy book as a guide of sorts.

Spirituality, divorced from religion, means whatever any random person claims it means. It does not convey a coherent idea, ideology, or view, even to the limited extent that religion does.

That said, I rather liked The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by Andre Compte-Sponville, which is really about defining and embracing the so-called "great virtues" such as humility, kindness, self-control, patience, generosity, diligence, integrity, etc. These can at least be discussed in terms of the benefits they bring to civil society, or the avoidance of harms at least. A humanistic moral system and a systematic way of living it out, gives us something to coalesce around other than simply critiquing theism, and it demonstrates that morality isn't handed down from on high but comes from deciding as a society what creates and sustains the sort of environment we want to make for ourselves and for each other.

That is a use of the term "spiritual" I could buy into. But there is no woo involved, only a rational consideration of what we want for ourselves and for the life we share with others. The book would have better been called The Little Book of Virtue, but I understand that the publisher wanted to sell books, and putting the word "spirituality" in the title probably does sell better. Also putting the word Atheist in the title makes it provocative and edgy. But really ... virtue has nothing do with spirituality or unbelief. It works equally well for the religious, and I'd submit that people have to overcome their religious or spiritual nature in order to BE virtuous.

i am often told i am a spiritual person. i am NOT. i think of spirituality as religion light. i don't care whether it requires worship or naming names or following rules or joining a club; if you think there is something out there pulling strings with some kind of agency, that's religion, no matter what you call it, and if you do that without calling it god so you're spiritual, great, fine, you're religious without a religion. that's your right, but don't mistake me for feeling or believing the same way, pretty please.

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I think not. I consider myself spiritual in that I believe in beings/dimensions/intelligent design....
Other stuff that might raise an eyebrow more than I've already mentioned. But I don't believe in WORSHIPPING anything. My thought is that we simply don't understand this stuff, yet.

Yep, spiritualism is for the person who understands that man made up religion, but still don't quite understand that the need for a higher purpose is what drove them.

Sir Arthur Eddington:

The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a universal Mind... To put the conclusion crudely — the stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.

The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.

No, not annoyed at all. I’m not aware of any circumstances of people that fall into this ‘category’ proselytising, door knocking, claiming tax exemptions or bothering anyone in the slightest.

Can’t see why you would want to critique them anyway!

I relate to your every word and so many tell me I must be "spiritual." That word means anything that they want it to mean. These types of feelings are why we have so many religions.