Spirituality means something that actually you are, but without senses and body. But without senses and boy, what is left? and what is reach of present scientific approach.
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Q: What is scientific reach of spirituality?
The scientific reach of spirituality refers to the examination and potential integration of spiritual concepts within the framework of scientific inquiry. While spirituality encompasses beliefs and experiences that are not easily measurable or verifiable through traditional scientific methods, efforts have been made to understand spirituality as a natural part of human cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Some key points regarding the scientific reach of spirituality include:
- Defining spirituality as a complex construct that involves ideas of God, higher powers, divinity, and transcendent reality, distinct from but interconnected with religion.
- Investigating spirituality as a scientific construct across cultures and languages, exploring its universality and variations.
- Examining spiritual practices such as prayer, meditation, and contemplation as mechanisms for activating and maintaining spirituality.
- Recognizing that spirituality is closely tied to consciousness, mind, body, and spirit relationships.
- Understanding that spirituality seeks to answer fundamental questions about life, much like science, yet it operates within a different epistemic framework.
Despite the inherent differences between science and spirituality, there is growing interest in exploring how these two domains can inform and complement each other, leading to a more holistic understanding of human experience and reality. Md. Sarfaraz Ansari
Before getting a serious scientific approach to spirituality you need a serious approach to what spirituality is. The definition of spirituality you wrote in your question is wrong: spirituality is not “something that actually you are, but without senses and body”. I have written the most serious article currently available about the definition of spirituality: Preprint What is spirituality?
. It is the most serious because it discusses critical perspectives, other researchers’ results, historical and cultural aspects of the question. If you know more serious and critical articles on the topic, let me know, please. The fact that there is so much confusion, rubbish, lack of critical research about spirituality, is sad, but is a fact and is discussed as well in my article.After getting a good critical idea about what spirituality is, you will be able, automatically, to understand much better your own question about a scientific approach to spirituality.
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