how do you do that in yourself and it others?
share.
Re: QUANTIFYING SPIRTUALITY?
Dush , are you testing the English or IQ level of guppies/guppans ?
Re: QUANTIFYING SPIRTUALITY?
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none. let's be adventurous in exploring what we can reason ethically about this serious ques, mirch.
Re: QUANTIFYING SPIRTUALITY?
It can be quantified but will not serve any purpose. Normally a person is into spiritualism for his/her own satisfaction. They feel elated on spiritual level and feel peace and tranquility from inside.
How to quantify , by establishing a point system for spiritual activities. For example 5 points for feeding a hungry , 10 points for helping a needy etc.
To keep the discussion secular I am not going into quantifying religious rituals. But those can be quantified too but our quantification will be meaningless as the deity who needs to approve of them will let us know the real worth of these rituals on the judgment day.
Re: QUANTIFYING SPIRTUALITY?
Peace Sister
Spirit is defined by what essence our true natures lead us to our design purpose. The spirit can be viewed as a volatile thing and free or liberated thing. The body is therefore a confined thing and something that has condensed into material form.
Utilising the thought model of ghost in the machine, we can deduce that the ghost moves the machine and the machine stimulates the ghost.
Sensation is how the world affects us
Emotion is how we experience the world
Reason is how we create
Spirituality is therefore the distancing of material needs for those higher needs.
Thinking of God, Abstaining from food, giving charity, sacrificing ones rights, defeating ones own ego is the process towards higher spirituality.
We need to deprive ourselves from sensory stimulus such as food and sex and also emotional stimulus such as games, song, and talking often with people, in order to increase our spiritual contact with our Creator.
The highest level of spiritual state is a complete focus on the reality of God, as if He is there. In a reasonable deduction if God showed Himself to us we would not be concerned with anything we could slice our necks and limbs off without a flinch. This is because that person would be distanced from their senses. Emotion would be on hold it would be shear awe. We could not reason either it would be a pure reflex of our design purpose to fall in prostration before Him.
Spirituality is therefore the distancing of the Fitrah from the nufs such that the fitrah is enough to guide us to act without the need to pass it by our souls.