The Multifaceted Ambiguities of Spiritualism

According to the Royal Institute of Psychiatrists, spirituality can be defined as the acknowledgment of a feeling, sense, or belief that there is a higher power -something higher- beyond that of the self; that there is more to the phenomenon of human experience than that of the senses, and that this greater whole is divine or cosmic in its nature. At the same time, spirituality has deep roots in religion, and the two, as if the two were ostensibly synonymous with each other. In this way, it is through this lens that we could also define spirituality as something that is referring to religious processes of reformation whose goal is to, “recover the original shape of man.”

Bearing these definitions in mind, spirituality seems like a pretty straightforward conceptualization. Right? Especially in the wake of what could only be termed as, new age spirituality. In this sense, spirituality is a burgeoning subject matter that can be observed on the collective level. We see this evident in the case of streaming platforms dedicated to spirituality such as can be found in instances such as Gaia. Or just look to the online Medium publication. On Medium alone, the topic of spirituality has a highly saturated…