Comments on: From feudal to participatory spirituality https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-feudal-to-participatory-spirituality/2008/06/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:35:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Love, Truth, Beauty, Pluralistic Spirituality · links for 2008-06-20 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-feudal-to-participatory-spirituality/2008/06/16/comment-page-1#comment-266249 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:35:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1623#comment-266249 […] P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » From feudal to participatory spirituality (tags: open participatory source spirituality) […]

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By: Mushin J. Schilling https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-feudal-to-participatory-spirituality/2008/06/16/comment-page-1#comment-260948 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:01:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1623#comment-260948 Hi Donald,

have never been in a Quaker meeting but maybe they are like this…

Spirituality in my view doesn’t necessarily require the notion of some divinity or god. Actually I do quite fine without 🙂 most of the time. Nevertheless on occasion I am in states of awareness which can sensibly only be rendered using a word like “divine.”
The trouble starts when one starts interpreting these very real (sometimes even ‘more than real’) experiences with the tool-set our traditions offer us; and even more trouble starts when then taking these interpretations as ‘authorized’ by some Higher Being.

So my best take would be, “Spirituality is being pre-occupied with spirit. And according to Wikipedia the English word “spirit” comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning “breath” (compare spiritus asper), but also “soul, courage, vigor”, ultimately from a PIE root *(s)peis- (to blow). In the Vulgate, the Latin word translates Greek (??????), pneuma (Hebrew (???) ruah), as opposed to anima, translating psykh?. The word was loaned into Middle English via Old French.”

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By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-feudal-to-participatory-spirituality/2008/06/16/comment-page-1#comment-258974 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:10:29 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1623#comment-258974 I guess this one is for Mushin to answer. My own would be: our relationship to the totality of being, our ability to extend our circle of care. This can include, but doesn’t have to, a specific acceptance of the divine in one of its many forms.

So, regarding your question, it is both, though totally immanent and atheistic spiritualities are totally legitimate.

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By: donald https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-feudal-to-participatory-spirituality/2008/06/16/comment-page-1#comment-258971 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:42:29 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1623#comment-258971 Sounds like Quaker meeting.

When you say spirituality, do you mean something that involves some version of god or a divine? Or do you mean more like a philosophy of daily experience?

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