Spirituality without supernatural belief

mankkeli

Can you experience a more intense and transcendent emotions in your atheist life without a belief in God?.

Yes I do. I feel totally connected to my surroundings when I look at the stars, an amazing sunset or a spectacular landscape. I am moved by these experiences, I can be lost in the moment and I believe that is a "spiritual" experience.

PSacramento

Some people have issues with the term "supermnaturla" because they seem to equate it with soemthing outside nature and science but thatis NOT the case.

A supernatural event is something that is "outisde the morm", yes, but only because OUR notion of norm and natural is still very "intantile".

A supernatural event is siemply one that science has not YET been able to explain.

poopsiecakes

Still Thinking nailed it...pardon the pun.

Dutch-scientist

I agree on PS.

I know scientist try to understand why people got the feeling when some one is watching where they dont see it. There is still a huge field to discover.

Think about it, our brain works with signals wich we can detect from the outside. Beam an advertisment to your brain or an key to unlock yourself from the BORG. ;)

DS

watson

Do I need to?

jay88

What is the intent of the question?

If, you really wanted to know,... you would conduct an experiment on yourself for a period of time and inform us of what you discovered.

soft+gentle

yes mankkeli

it is possible to experience more intense and transcendent emotions in an atheistic life without a belief in God. An atheist would do this by putting value in work, in love for people, in creativity, in hope, in fate. All these avenues are availabe to the atheist as they are to to those who are not atheists. The great enemy to a spiritual life is reductionism imo and not whether or not one does or does not believe in God.