What I am doing is a personal search for spiritual truth. Therefore, I should clearly define my terms, as I use them, in order to avoid semantic confusion insofar as possible. I believe life in all its forms, even in this world, can only be properly understood and appreciated from the larger perspective that spirituality provides. Thus I consider it to be, first and foremost, a point of view.
Truth is opinion that conforms to reality.
Reality is that which is so whether anyone knows it or not and whether anyone likes it or not. Thus, truth is based in reality, but reality is independent of opinion. But it also means that I search, look into, investigate, and examine carefully whatever I encounter. Exploratory procedures are always journeys into the unknown, or unfamiliar territory, but unlike blind faith, they are open-eyed attempts to gather more information and thus expand the scope of one's knowledge. Experimental refers to a scientific method based on experience rather than on authority or theory.