Spirituality

Sometimes I miss spirituality, I know that often conjures images of fruity new age fuzzy wuzzies or archaic childish fantasies but that’s not what I’m getting at. All of those miss the point of the spirituality that I speak of.

I don’t believe there is a god, nor is there some great creator. I just see no proof for it, life, anatomy, society, they’re all too screwed up for this to be a design. But sometimes I wonder if I get too caught up in the facts.

I cannot deny spirituality, there almost has to be something to it. Religions’ highest rewards of servitude are all explained similarly once the semantics are drained out. Oneness, a sense of belonging to something greater, a feeling of thanks and appreciation for life itself, and an understanding of the world around you and peace with that world.

All these religions and teachings and paths to a spiritual apex were thought of by different people, in different places, in different situations. Yet they are remarkably similar. I don’t mean to offend hard line fact’s type people but it almost seems logical from that perspective.

I do believe that spirituality also exists in science, though I know many scientists would be leery of spirituality being attached to science.

But there is a oneness, we are all; trees, humans, animals, insects, rocks, earth, oxygen, all of us made from a relatively small amount of elements. All those elements were born of the same place, stars. And all those stars came from the same place, the matter and energy created in the Big Bang.

A sense of belonging comes in looking at the vastness of space, that in all that I am a part of it. Or conversely into the heart of a cell, right down to the nucleus of an atom, that in such a small thing resides such power when combined with others atoms.

Science certainly gives us an understanding of the world around us, makes our lives easier, more comfortable and allows us to learn more which I am most certainly thankful for.

Maybe I’m reaching, maybe I’m trying to draw connections where there are none and if that’s what you think then by all means pay me no mind. All I know is that I remember the feeling that I thought was god when I was a believer and that sometimes when I look at the discoveries of science I feel that same feeling.