---In [email protected], <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
Me: I am not sure the word refers to anything more than a cluster of beliefs about someone's perspective on life. Although I have experienced fundamental shifts of my internal experience, I am not convinced that they represent anything close to how it gets hyped. It may not be realization of any reality other than something our brains can do if you think about things in a certain way or cultivate the altered states of consciousness from excessive meditation practice. I am not convinced that we all have psychological garbage that we need to remove. What some might view as garbage, I might view as a critical aspect of what makes me an individual. While this sounds good as an intellectual construct, or argument, what I have found is that my experience of what we might call developing spirituality has developed over 40 years, and has really only gained momentum in the last five to eight years, when I pretty much ceased the practice of TM, and, (long ago) ceased any connection with the organization. There is also a physical component associated with certain experiences, which makes me inclined to believe that there is no mood making, or power of suggestion involved. But, I am not trying to sell anything, but at the same time, I feel pretty fortunate about it.
