Definition: Spirituality

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Revision: 20 Jun 2026

Spirituality

The search for truth in and beyond ordinary experience.
Exploration of and engagement with reality beyond material existence.
Spirituality passes through stages of searching for explanations of phenomena, discovering and exercising creatorship, outgrowing all understandings of reality based on finiteness, and realizing THE SUPREME.
Spirituality passes through stages of studying apparent divisions within Mind (without realizing that all dividedness is false), unifying what seemed to be divided, exploring the nature of oneness, and transcending the scaffolding of ideas and beliefs that were utilized along the way.
Spirituality and science are two aspects of a single investigation into the nature of reality. Profound spirituality is unified with science.
The purpose of spirituality is to restore apex awakeness.
An exploration of the “big questions,” including: What is reality? What is really true? Who/what am I? What/who is God? Why am I here?
Spirituality ends with apex awakeness and apex knowing.
Spirituality is transcended when the purpose of spirituality is fulfilled.