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Spirituality
Spirituality is something that I feel I've been needing. I don't mean spiritual in the religious, "ghostly," sense, but I mean it in feeling that connectedness that gives me a real high to be alive. Is it possible to experience it via some sort of mythos personifying nature or reality as it is? Is it possible to listen to music or read literature inspired by mythology that personifies nature? Not to be taken literally but to use as a tool for spiritual experience?
Don't get me wrong, I get inspired by reading scientific literature, but I'm starting to feel like I need some poetry in my life. I'm reading "The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality" and while it is full of great quote fodder, it's given me a taste for more "spirituality" and I'm not quite sure where I should start looking. Maybe a research project compiling a list of "to reads" is in order...
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Yes! It's possible! And this is exactly what religion should be! I go to church as a skeptic, because the mythology and ritual of it still work for me as a gateway to spirituality.
Please pardon and feel free to ignore the links to my own blog, but you might like Defining Spirituality and Am I a raging religion-oholic?.
You also might like The Poetry Foundation.
Wow. Thanks for the links Leah! I will check them out.
A Village Life, by Louise Gluck.
anything by Rilke
Wallace Stevens < this is a big one
... that's all i can think of at this exact moment
I second Rilke.
I love anything by Miguel Ruiz...
Wine is bottled poetry ~Robert Louis Stevenson.
Try some Pinot Noir, Chianti, or Riesling. Yummy :)
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