Many ask "what is the difference, if any", and many today refer to
themselves ar "spiritual, not religious".

Religion is a combination of recommended behaviours with the future in
mind, and is of the same genre as potilics. Unlike politics, the
future is based on 'after death' . Both just speculation.

Spiritualilty is all encompasing, wherby the individual embraces, and
welcomes all experiences, knowing that experience is the only
teacher.

Epiphany applies just as much to day to day relationships as it does
to 'greater awareness' of which, religion can only speculate.

It is only when the individual can see this in day to day life, can he
be receptive for greater insights. The process is the same.

Free will comes in whereby a person can either chose to 'look' or
not.To chose not to look when your ability to see has developed , is
the cause of all dysfunction.

To 'let go of ego' means simply to allow yourself a further look, even
though you 'thought' you were right previously.

BOfL

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:53:16 -0700 (PDT), "bigfletch8@gmail.com" gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 17, 10:16 am, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

On Jul 16, 4:53 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
wrote:

On Jul 17, 10:35 am, "Mark Earnest" yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jul 17, 10:36 am, "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote:

People who realise that religion is incomensurable with common sense,
and fear to be ridiculed by calling themselves religious cling to
another word: spiritual.
By attaching themeslves to this word they seek to maintain the
possiblity of their religious beliefs whilst appearing to be more
"open minded" and a seker of truth, rather than a passive absorber of
religious godma and doctrine.
However the meaning and evidential basis for such a thing as spirit
and spirituality is ill defined. And we find within the motives of
those that apply the term to themselves, a wish for eternal and
extrasomatic existence that is not easy to justify.

So, from my experience, the difference between spiritual and religious
is slim, like the difference between Tory and Conservative, or between
Fascist and Nazi.

On Jul 17, 1:35 am, "Mark Earnest" yahoo.com> wrote: