Dear Joe:

I don’t have a definition of spirituality. I don’t know what it means. From what I have seen, that is the way people use the word spirituality or spiritual, did not …entice me to try to figure it out.

I am a human being. I know that. I am an animal, evolved from previously existing animals and am one. I have a brain capable of a vocabulary and thinking that other species are not capable of. As a human, we humans are the only animals that can think about one’s thinking, think about one’s feelings, think about our own death…Because of this ability to think, we are thinking, a lot, about scary things and many of us are scared on an ongoing basis, excessively and ineffectively (anxiety).

And is so being able, humans invented a god “in the image of man”- the biblical one. Before that, humans looked for a god in the sun, the wind, etc. to explain what was happening in their lives. For the purpose of feeling that we/ humans have power over what we do not, we invented a god or gods and imagined if we are “good”- god will be good to us back.

That god or gods is anywhere from biblical gods (different bibles) to the New Age god: “The Universe”. I believe in none, no god, no gods: no entity that cares about what I think and feel and rewards or punishes me for what I think or feel, not even what I do. I do believe in cause and effect, consequences, but no justice. For example, I hurt a person, consequence: that person will hurt another, but not necessarily me.

There is more, but enough for now. What do you think about what I wrote, Joe? Anyone who may be reading this? Your thoughts???

anita