Spiritual is 99℅ of the unknowns. An atheist may call it just the unknowns.

I feel its awesome when ever I explore the spiritual unknowns outside of my circle and when I find something I desire. I work the problem then pull it in to manifest it into my ego self circle. Then my circle joins many other things I have mastered within my circle, the my circle expands further into the universe.

I find atheist have problems with imagination too. Often enough kinda of makes them lame

Faith in humanity.

I am able to translate everything I discover to feel Spiritual or sacred. Love is a hogposh amount of confusion, although when you find love in two people or thing. You are stronger together than apart. That is a spiritual experience.

@Castlepaloma

I believe love is a beautiful experience. But I'm not sure what the word spiritual means based on that. We have an understanding of what good feelings are and can attribute all kinds of word definitions to them.

I don't know how spiritual is any different from sublime. What is spirit?

I take nothing away from someone's heartfelt experiences. The word is just not clear to me as it relates to spirit.

Love is love. What is spiritual? I don't ask this to be right - I am genuinely confused. I wonder if it's just a word used to describe many things that people have feelings about, to which they want to apply more meaning.

I believe you're right. People are unique and complicated and not everyone has the same ideas or beliefs.

The problem lies with labels people give themselves, that not even they can define.

So far, I've not heard a single definition of what spiritual means, that doesn't already mean something else, or just doesn't provide a definition at all.

"It's about being one with the universe."

What does that mean? Is their ass a planet?

"I believe there are greater forces at work."

It's probably just gas.

@Athena Why do you need it defined? I have no obligation to define myself to random strangers on the internet. Maybe of all the prepackaged labels we were offered, that one sounded "closest" for the ones that selected it. How about asking the website that offered it as a selection to define it - they must have felt it was a legitimate option or they wouldn't have stuck it in there.

@exilesky
Oh, you're right.. I don't.

My issue is when people state it, like I'm supposed to know what it means..

If they're going to talk to me about it, they'd better define it, so I know what they're talking about.

If not, they should find a Sarah Palin to talk to, so they can not make sense together.

@Athena Many things in life don't make sense to a lot of people - but the burden of education should fall on those confused. I always felt that the internet is a good tool to educate yourself on things that don't make sense to you. But of course sneering at people who don't precisely define something in terms you personally prefer is much easier and helps you to feign superiority when in fact you are merely announcing the opposite. It must be hard to live in a world where you are colorblind and all these ridiculous people say they see colors but are too stupid to explain them to your satisfaction.

@exilesky

Thanks!

Next time someone is speaking to me about something they believe, that they can't explain, I will excuse myself and consult with Google!

@Athena No really, keep sneering, its so attractive! I bet people just follow you around begging you to understand, don't they? As an example - If they're talking about being able to see your aura, Google Kirlian photography. Then perhaps you might realize such things exist, after all; whether or not they will ever be part of YOUR experience or understanding, they are indeed a part of some people's life.

@exilesky

You sound very sweet.

Xoxo

@exilesky "the burden of education should fall on those confused"
I disagree - if someone uses a term the onus is on them to define or explain it in a comprehensible way. Otherwise it's just babble and ain't nobody got time for that.

@Athena
Then gas maybe your concrete answer.

For me Spiritual is just the unknowns, until it's manifest into our ego selves.

@Athena
Sarah Palin is so surreal. Don't use model Sarah as a spiritual sided person. We know about several kinds of maps toward this world and beyond. Science has limits like a branch on the tree of life. You want concrete evidence, stay in your box fixing those cracks , forget about unlimited imagaination and spiritual possibility.

@Gareth I grew up reading books, and I would often come across words and concepts I did not understand. I did not blame the author for not explaining everything to my satisfaction - I took it upon myself to research things I wanted to know about. I had to do it the hard way - with other books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, trips to the library.

The world has changed and with Google now at our command, ignorance is a CHOICE like never before.

Demanding other people explain themselves or else what they say is "babble" sounds like a cop-out to me. I used to be married to an IT nerd who would have other IT nerds over to the house. I knew the things they were talking about were real, and that I did not understand them, and I had a choice of educating myself or staying out of their conversation. I did not choose to sneer at them or demand they "dumb down" their conversation to MY level - I treated them with respect and left them to talk on THEIR level in peace. I accepted that they were different than me, and did not feel threatened by their advanced knowledge of a subject.

Again, I will state that the intolerance I have discovered here in the Agnostic community is something I was unprepared for, but I keep coming across it throughout these forums regardless of subject.

You know what I'm really into though? Essential oil enhanced crystals.

Spiritual but not religious that is the great confusion. A Religion has great contradiction and conflicts. Religion lives in the pass, not exploring the 99℅ spiritual unknowns, until it is known. Spiritual reaches for the stars with a source of good intentions as we all are connected to the Universe. Initialism used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that takes issue with organized religion as the sole or most valuable means of furthering spiritual growth.
Spirituality has often been associated with the interior life of the individual. Placing an emphasis upon the well-being of the "mind-body-spirit"While religion refers to organizated Superstition. I have dreams with deadlines, as everything I have achieved in life and as well for the history of mankind was all once imaginated. Spiritual is the unknowns, science has limits, imagination and spiritual has not.

I wrote a thread here on imagination, this is the key to explore the spiritual unknowns and create achievements.