Secular Spirituality
Secular Spirituality
Science-first spirituality.
A personal journey of the self.
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The spiritual domain concerns how humans interpret experience: meaning, values, identity, purpose, belonging, awe, grief, hope, and existential direction.
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Dichotomy of Pleasure
My modern focus on Epicureanism is its dichotomy of pleasure. Manage pleasure before pleasure manages you. Epicurus wants you to prefer long-term pleasures like the feeling of being fit over the short-term ones like eating donuts. Take control of your choices, stay clean, sober, and productive and choose to let go of unnecessary fear and anger. To take control of your life, practice the simple pleasures that support flourishing and loosen the grip of immediate pleasures that quietly control you.
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“People are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinions about the things that happen.”
- Epictetus
- 108 CE
Mental Agency
Emotional resilience is another mental agency tool. It is about developing the ability to withstand and adapt to life’s challenges, setbacks, and disappointments. It’s the idea that our emotional reactions stem primarily from our beliefs, judgments, and thoughts about events, rather than the events themselves. By managing your emotions more effectively, you can minimize the negative impact of adversity.
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What did the Nuremberg Trials clarify about moral agents?
Moral Agency Within Authority
You cannot control every situation or every order handed to you, but you still control your part in what happens next. Listen to authority and consider its guidance, but do not surrender your moral agency. Think through your intent, choose the best action you can, and take responsibility for your choice.
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Philosophy of Spirituality
Respect the believer. Test the belief.
Reality is our common ground.
Spirituality is an open-minded exploration of reality through science, reasoned thought, and honest speculation. It explores concrete things, valid ideas of the mind, and the unknown or unknowable. The goal is to clarify your beliefs within your worldview, helping shape your personal language, religious views, and guiding philosophy.
Deep-Dive Articles
The Material-Spiritual Framework: A Philosophy of Spirituality
The Material-Spiritual Framework separates shared empirical reality from personal spiritual meaning, allowing people to respect belief while still testing public claims against the material world.
A Higher Power for Everyone: God, Logos, and Recovery
Recovery from addiction, or even just a bad habit, begins when the craving self stops acting like the highest authority. Build new habits with help: whether God, Logos, community, or reality itself.
Historical lineup for Secular Spirituality
The best spirituality does not escape reality. It learns from it. Let reality sharpen and deepen your spirituality.
TST Doxastic Formation: Public Belief, Tribe, and Worldview
This is your life. Embrace the beliefs you understand and believe in, not just the beliefs you inherited.
Philosophy: The Existence and Essence Debate
In religion and philosophy, the existence and essence debate asks if you exist before your time on Earth.
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Ancient History
Pragmatism and Pythagoras
Pythagoras exemplifies rational pragmatism and reminds us that authority is often topic specific. Choose your authorities carefully, because good authority is usually limited to a ...
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