Naturalised spirituality

Author: Camino Cañón Loyes.
Date of publication: Pamplona, 16 December 2014.

Camino Cañón Loyes: Chair de Ciencia, Tecnología y Religión. Comillas Pontifical University.

summaryThe emergence of post-religious spiritualities in a technoscientific culture has its own characteristics in the context of the naturalist tradition: In all religion there is a firm conviction and accumulated experience that it is part of the human condition to have a radically different experience of the world than the one we experience in everyday life, which increases the happiness of human beings. Exploring this terrain, a true achievement of the evolved primate, will depend on how our speech proceeds on religion (Harris), so that it ceases to make sense to speak of "religious experience" and we can only speak of "spiritual experience". Thus, the really hard problem is to find a scientific explanation that accounts for a spirituality without God (Flanagan).