Actual Spirituality

What is it? In order to understand my view of spirituality, one must accept the idea that we as humans have evolved, and all our biological functions are in some way related to our self-survival as a species. Our sense of smell is used to find good food. It alerts us if food is rancid. We've developed a taste aversion to things that make us sick. We see movement easily. This helps us to see predators and prey. Most of all, we developed the ability to recognize patterns. It started with being able to see the cycle of the seasons. When the suns sets earlier, we need to gear up for winter. When the days get longer, we need to start to plant crops in the rainy season. We see the revolution of days and nights. The revolution of months and years. The ability to recognize patterns extends into our own lives. We look at our past. We analyze what worked and what didn't. We use this information as the basis of future decisions. This is the method of procedure for the Scientific Method as well as Manufacturing's DMAIC. It is what Ralph Waldo Emerson said in The American Scholar when he said that truth is taking in the world around us, brooding upon it, and then exporting it in our daily actions and content.* Feelings of spirit are deeply rooted in this idea of truth. I subscribe to the belief that feelings of spirit are heavily influenced by the chemicals in our brains, most importantly those of the Tryptamine family. DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) being the main gateway of public introduction as per "The Spirit Molecule" Netflix documentary. Feelings of this drug seem to always include a sense that the past, present and future are exactly the way they are supposed to be. (See Alpha and Omega).

So in the context of humans being able to feel these spiritual feelings, why would we have evolved this ability? It seems that every ability and characteristic can be traced back to some survival mechanism that at some point helped us to rule the roost of all living creatures. So why the ability to feel spiritual feelings? I argue that in the face of serious crisis, this spiritual molecule gives the human a divine purpose for which to fight. It has been proven that when humans are on the brink of physical exhaustion, they feel an influx of DMT and spiritual experiences in their brain. This is why fasting has become a method of attaining spiritual connection. Both Mohammed, Mormons and Jesus used fasting as way to connect spiritually with God. By depriving the body of physical nourishment, the body thinks it is in a life crisis. At these times the body produces DMT in an effort to give the body encouragement to fight and continue forward in existence. In these moments the human starts to have mental revelations. His connection to truth becomes a spiritual one. He feels his existence in the past is justified because of who he is today. He feels that who he is today is a beautiful thing, and that the future holds great results if he can just fight through the crisis. This DMT spiritual experience is enough to get him to give that last bit of effort. To have faith, so that his immune system remains active. He arises from the fight or flight sympathetic response that he is currently in to a state of achievement. By coming out of this sympathetic response he is able to use his ability of pattern recognition not only for temporary needs such as finding food and fleeing from danger, but he is allowed the ability to use his pattern recognition capabilities to determine his future. He enters a deep reflection of everything that he is (life flashes before his eyes), and then with a mind of essentialism focuses on the few things that will most greatly influence his future. This is the essence of spiritualism. It is using the ability to recognize patterns for long term goals. Goals that extend from before we even existed to goals that extend well beyond our own lifetime. Often they are enveloped in Hivemind attitudes that altruistically help all of humankind. They are ideas that seek to not only help oneself, but the whole of humanity.

* "The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. it came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. it came to him, short-lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts. it came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. it was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. it can stand, and it can go. it now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The american Scholar