Spirituality

Spirituality is defined here as the personal pursuit of one's core beliefs and attempts to become more mentally attuned to those beliefs.

Since the source of all morality, and indeed consciousness itself, is the brain, most "spiritual" pursuits involve attempts to become more in touch with the internal reward systems of our brains. Buddhism is a spiritual tradition that is almost completely psychological in terms of its practices. Spiritual tradition is ritualized mental health, whether it is directly acknowledged as it is in Buddhism or indirectly as it is in Judeo-Christian traditions.

Modern spirituality borrows rituals and traditions from every culture, as well as the science of psychology, to create a patchwork of both religious and evidence-based practices that can have widely varying degrees of success.

From this there needs to evolve a more purely evidence-based spiritual tradition that illuminates the insane beauty of the universe with the powerful language that taps the power of our ancestors and practices perfected over countless generations, while providing demonstrable value with its refined rituals based on spiritual and psychological best-practices.