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10:28pm September 14, 2014
Anonymous asked: do you really believe in 'spirituality' despite the existence of no evidence whatsoever for its existence? do you actually see 'glows' around people? i'm really taken aback, i admire you a lot, i didn't know you believed in something that irrational.

I see glows around people in my mind’s eye, not with my real eyes.  I don’t consider that spiritual, I consider it a form of synesthesia almost.  But it’s a form of synesthesia many people seem to have, because we all ‘see’ them around the same people and they all seem to mean the same thing – big ego, big influence.  This is part of 'sensing’ for me.  I don’t need to explain or justify it, it’s just part of how my perceptual system works.  I see colors in my head I feel textures around people I resonate with people in certain ways and it comes out in a way that feels sensory, whatever it actually is.  I have no explanation for it, I assume it has something to do with how the brain works in people who are highly sensing.

I do believe in spirituality (by which I do not mean anything new age, and I do not consider being highly sensing the same as being 'spiritual’, that’s a new age mind-trap that disgusts me and I see it used on autistic people who are highly sensing all the time, I myself was exploited by new agers in my adolescence and have a healthy disrespect for everything they stand for), and I have never claimed to be super-rational (although I respect rational thought and have tried to train myself to have more of it than I naturally have, because of my spirituality actually).  I have talked at length about my spiritual beliefs in connection with the redwood forest.  I’m not sure how you could’ve missed that.  I’m sorry to disappoint you but that isn’t going to go away just because you admired me and you can’t see it as compatible with admiration for someone.  Luckily I’m not encumbered with the idea that a person has to fit all my ideals for me to look up to them.  I hope you’re not, either, because I don’t like falling off pedestals I didn’t agree to get up onto in the first place.

The type of spirituality I believe in incorporates rationality as an integral part of it.  See hardcorespirituality.com for the sort of thing I believe in, as close as any.

But I honestly think you’re getting the word spirituality confused with tons of different things that it doesn’t have to be.  And it doesn’t have to be irrational.  And I don’t understand what you mean by “no evidence for its existence”, because what exactly is “a spirituality” that you would find evidence for or against its existence?  And which form of spirituality would you be choosing to try to prove or disprove?  There are hundreds.  

Anyway, sorry to disappoint you, but spirituality is at the center of my life.  Real spirituality.  Hard core spirituality.  Not fluffy bullshit.  And don't ever confuse my talk of the way I sense things about people (and bring them into a sensory form in my mind, such as colors and glows and the like) with spirituality.  That’s not the same thing at all.  One is a form of sensory thought, the other is a communion with the deepest parts of reality.  They are not the same thing.

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