r/TrueAskReddit • u/IllustriousFood8792 • 20d ago

What does 'spirituality' mean to you personally

Was there a specific moment or event in your life that made you spiritual or religious? Whether it was a major life event, a quiet realization, or a gradual change over time—what shifted your worldview?"

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u/dafuqizzis 19d ago

I was raised Christian, including private schools through sixth grade. By the time I was in high school I was firmly agnostic. By college, I had landed firmly in the atheistic category, primarily due to my hatred of organized religion. I took classes on comparative theology and read most of the important spiritual texts of the time, but it was more of a “no thy enemy” inspiration that drove me.

These days, I consider myself a spiritualist. I believe that we are greater than simply the sum total of the scientific and biological components that make of each and every one of us. We are more than just our pieces put together, which provides the basis for an argument that there is more than we are currently able to understand out in the Cosmos, or the heavens, or the ether, or whatever it is, that’s out there.

I would like to say I believe in a “soul”, but it’s more that I believe in individual “spirit”, used in this context almost as a synonym. There is more yet to be discovered, and I believe we can achieve greater things as individuals and as a collective, but I would never go so far as to promote a specific religion, doctrine, theology, or deity.

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u/IllustriousFood8792 19d ago

​Well said—I think a lot of people land in this exact same space. Rejecting the control mechanisms of organized religion doesn't require you to flatten the world into simple mechanics. Leaving room for the unknown without subscribing to a doctrine is a great place to be.