Spirituality is a personal focus that is concerned more with the human spirit consciousness than material things like the human body. Its primary focus is the human spirit consciousness, but the full scope of spirituality is a person’s quest to understand their consciousness in the context of all perceived reality. In this context, the ultimate goal of spirituality is a clear and complete understanding of all reality both spirit and physical.
Human beings are a carefully crafted body/spirit consciousness existing simultaneously in the physical and conscious realities. This blend is so seamlessly perfect that it is difficult for most people to understand that they are actually a blend of two realities, and as a result, there is much confusion at even this most basic level of what we are.
The human spiritual quest is a combination of considering and trying to understand the body/spirit blend puzzle and the never ending search for infinite happiness. Spirituality is an inescapable and universal element of the human experience, and everyone whether they know it or not is trying to understand something about their consciousness in the context of at least some portion of their physical reality. This inescapable spiritual quest is centered around the two fundamental questions of ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is going on around me?’
Spirituality springs from the very simple realization that we exist, and there is something going on around us. These two revelations become the basis for the human aspiration to discover 1) the Personal Truth about their personal spirit consciousness centering on the core theme of ‘Who am I and How can I be happy’ and 2) the greater ‘Everything Else’ Truth of how their spirit consciousness relates to the complex reality that surrounds it centering on the core theme of ‘What is going on around me and how can I use it to my advantage?’.
From this high level, spirituality is a very general concept, but a particular individual’s implementation has a much more specific focus. For the vast majority of people, their personal truth spirituality is their daily search for their individual identity with mundane internal questions around the personal truth core theme like ‘What kind of work do I want to do?’.
Similarly, their spiritual search for ‘Everything Else’ truth at this very fundamental level is focused on equally mundane internal questions around the ‘Everything Else’ truth core theme like ‘How can I get to work?’. Most don’t even think of these simple questions are spiritual yearnings, but at a very basic level, they are an expression of spirituality’s core longings to discover our Personal and ‘Everything Else’ truths. These simple yearnings eventually become the complex and sophisticated questions of deep spiritual significance when given enough time.
Everyone’s life whether they realize it or not is a journey of spiritual discovery. Every thought and every action no matter how coarse or misguided is driven by core primitive impulses to 1) understand these personal and ‘Everything Else’ truths and 2) be happy. The short term goal of spirituality is to define your conscious identity in terms of functioning in the physical world (i.e. ‘who am I and what do I want to do?’), but its ultimate goal is to develop the spirit consciousness to its highest potential and live life to the fullest possible extent.
With the passage of time, these natural occurring and seemingly superficial discoveries driven by the core primitives eventually become more clearly recognizable as spirituality, the only path to the ultimate truths. Every individual interpretation of spirituality is different based on their particular level of spiritual evolution and their special interpretation of their surrounding reality.
These spiritual pursuits of themselves are focused on the immediate necessity to understand ourselves and surroundings. They do not specifically require us to consider the questions related to how all this came to be and whether or not a creator exists for us and this surrounding reality, but for many, the existence or not of a creator weighs in at some point because it seems to helps resolve some of the body/spirit blend mystery. Unfortunately, most fail to start their search for the creator by building on their own body/spirit nature. They are more driven by body centric ego, fear, and arrogance which corrupts the purity of this quest. The end results are many varied and distorted perspectives on the subject of the creator.
The discussion about the existence of the creator is not important for this level of personal spirituality. These personal matters of understanding consciousness in the context of greater reality exist and must be addressed whether there is a creator or not. The subject of the creator will be addressed in a latter post.
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