On NPR this morning a host asked, “Are you spiritual?”
What does that mean? What, specifically, does spiritual mean in that context?
Physically we aren’t spiritual. It’s corporal all the way, baby!
Does one believe in spirits? How can we?
One responds to a situation with emotion and then one might think about that particular emotion, questioning its genesis and its function.
The many degrees of sadness might somehow be emotionally akin to a contemplation which we might commonly call “spiritual.” So, too, though, can be degrees of joy, elation.
But does that make us spiritual?
What is the “spirit” of America? Why are cheerleaders sometimes called Spirit Teams?
Do you cogitate?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Are you spiritual?
I have emotional responses, some of which make me feel as though I had transcended something; I don’t call that spiritual.
Trust, but verify.
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