Irreligious people: what does "sacrality" mean to you? How does that answer affect your behavior?
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I asked in part because I have trouble characterizing my sense of sacredness. Here's my attempt:
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I'll try.
For me, "sacrality" describes a way of relating, emphasizing reverence, awe, majesty, transcendence.
Some things reliably exist in this relationship with me: Pale Blue Dot, forests, dancing cellular mechanisms, Falcon stages landing. Most flicker in and out.
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I was surprised how resistant many replies were to notions of the sacred. A number of people assumed—sometimes a bit self-righteously!—that I myself am religious. I'm not! But sacrality is still very real for me, and it's only become more so over the past decade.
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This from Jonathan Sacks nicely captures a piece of it for me: "In essence, spirituality is what happens when we open ourselves to something greater than ourselves." rabbisacks.org/introduction-t (via Luke Burgis's "Wanting")
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Carl Jung once confronted his mentor Sigmund Freud and accused him of having a neurosis against the spiritual and anything larger than ourselves.
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But, Freud was never Jung's mentor.
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Strong agree. The sacred is what demands our awe, and the better we are at awe the more things we find sacred.
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this! I feel better practiced at contemplation and deep inspection as I get older, and so my capacity for appreciation and sacredness grows
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