My friend Thom posed a good question today. What does it mean to be spiritually ill, and how does one recognize that? Most people, as in the forgoing suggestions, choose to commiserate or ignore the situation entirely, but whether you are "religious" or not, there is a spiritual component that, if deficient, robs man of well-being and the fulness of happiness. Thom and I agree with the Founding Fathers in a Creator, and whether you believe in Him or not, being in tune with the spiritual energies affects your well being just as whether you believe in it or not gravity does too.
As to the issue of spiritual illness, I propose the following interstitial thoughts: Spirituality concerns our connection with the intangible. So, in a sense, spiritual sickness affects the unconscious and unseen world. Spiritually ill people cannot grasp concepts, define them, or stick to them. Things like loyalty, fidelity, and bravery take on opportunistic definitions, situation-specific, and ephemeral as the ether. They are blown about by every wind of doctrine. They know not what they believe let alone believe that anything in which they do not believe affects them. Think of it as an "it can't happen to me" mentality. Light, energy, truth, and power remain out of reach for them, and they are dark, literally and figuratively speaking.
As to the issue of spiritual illness, I propose the following interstitial thoughts: Spirituality concerns our connection with the intangible. So, in a sense, spiritual sickness affects the unconscious and unseen world. Spiritually ill people cannot grasp concepts, define them, or stick to them. Things like loyalty, fidelity, and bravery take on opportunistic definitions, situation-specific, and ephemeral as the ether. They are blown about by every wind of doctrine. They know not what they believe let alone believe that anything in which they do not believe affects them. Think of it as an "it can't happen to me" mentality. Light, energy, truth, and power remain out of reach for them, and they are dark, literally and figuratively speaking.
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