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Spirituality Reflection

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With a lasting interest in observing various religions’ views on spiritual life, and a wish to probe into my current cognition on related issues and thus, to evaluate my existing views, I feel fortunate in taking this adventurous course and get myself refreshed. Through this course, I am able to sort my world views with systematic terms and dig these concepts deeper, thereby exploring my frame of mind more acutely. In brief, the three most impressive things I have learned are: a. Spirituality is not only personal but also an interconnected perception; b. Thus, although different religions seem incompatible in many aspects, they have something higher in common in terms of spiritual and moral exploration; c. Considering a. and b., spiritual …show more content…

Personally speaking, I believe that spiritual sensation is a course that I could acquire a unique sense of self-awareness through introspection and retrospection, and then extend myself to communicating with some transcendent existence. When I read in the readings and heard in the introductory lecture that spirituality is a notion of an transcendent and invisible order which could link the awareness of all beings together, this wonderful possibility inspired me to think twice and question my original answer. Also, my previous understanding of animism was based on the knowledge of the Japanese worldview that deities and elves reside in everything on earth. There are related Japanese customs which I think are truly private, such as that the chopsticks the Japanese use are sharp on both ends because one end is for human beings and the other is for invisible deities to enjoy meals too, and that a Japanese always says to their house that “I’m back / I’m going out now” because the Japanese believe in the house deity that guards their lives. However, after I saw the the movie Avatar and went through the readings on animism, I come to understand that in an enchanted world, not only could we exert our personhood and subjectivity to connect to a higher agency, but more importantly, ubiquitous spirituality could be interconnected in the form of a community, and have a greater collective impact on an individual’s life like when the Na’vi and their homeland Pandora unite. With imagination and respect for all beings and the natural balance, we all could be in spiritual communication with the intangible world around us.— This amazing thought becomes my hope for the world

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