None of what follows is overwhelmingly original. Many of the thinkers and scholars who have guided my thinking are named. Throughout all of this we are interested in spirituality as distinctively human and as a naturally occurring human phenomenon. There will be no need for supernatural appeals or justifications, no magic, no leaps of faith. Though we will discuss the relation between spirituality and religious traditions there will be no need for religious language.
Spirituality is first and foremost human .