Spirituality and Community

Spirituality creates communities. Spirituality exists along a spectrum of experience and intensity, but it gives humans the feeling that they are part of something bigger than themselves.

What is society? Can you touch it? Can you see it or hear it? Is it just an illusion? If humans did not have the ability to believe in non-physical reality and did not have the ability to believe they were part of non-physical structures, how would society exist?

The question of whether such a thing as a spirit exists independently of a person’s body is not what is being discussed here. It is the belief itself, that there is a non-physical reality that individuals are part of. Without that belief, communities would not exist. It doesn’t matter that people may all have slightly different views of what society is, it is the fact that they have the ability in the first place, to believe in something which does not physically exist.

What is true for society is true for other communities, such as political parties, religions, sports teams, any collection of humans who exist as a group.