A person with a healthy spirit embraces spiritualism. That leads to
the the question, just what is spiritualism?
Spiritualism is the care and feeding of your life’s spirit.
And spirit, which comes from the Latin spirare, to breathe
is defined by the dictionary as
“the animating or vital principle held to give life to physical
organisms”. Spirituality, then, in our view, is the practice
of staying consciously connected with what makes us alive.
Spiritualism is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
Someone will say, "I come alive when I listen to music," or "I come to life
when I garden," or "I come alive when I play golf." Wherever we come alive,
that is the area in which we are spiritual. And then we can say, "I know at
least how one is spiritual in that area."
As long as man has been on the
earth, there is evidence that humans have been involved in spiritual
beliefs. From very primitive beliefs to complex polytheistic societies
with complex rituals, man has had spiritual beliefs. Indeed, most of us
have a spiritual tendency within us. This can manifest itself through
many ways, attendance at a church, synagogue, mosque or other place of
worship. Others see a belief in the holiness of nature.
Why is
spiritualism important? It is important because it is, as stated in
the definition that is given above, the thing that makes us alive. It
is the source of our passion. It is how we can understand ourselves,
our world, and our place in it. Spirituality allows us to expand our
thinking beyond the physical world around us and to truly see the
world as part of an unlimited universe. It therefore shows us that we,
like the universe around us, have no limits.
