ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses spirit and meaning-full disease to philosophers' postulations of a new, or renewed, intimacy between experience and material aspects of the universe. It considers several examples of disease and body dysfunction which highlights the possible role of spirit in relation to meaning-full disease. In some circles, spirituality rests upon a transpersonal consciousness, and meditative practice, but can be essentially atheistic. Others, of course, retain a belief in a supra-human being, God, who may be either an immanent presence, or, alternatively, a transcendent 'other,' or indeed both. And, of course, there are traditions that mix these emphases in a variety of ways. But, despite this diversity, there are some generic elements of spirituality germane to this discussion of meaning-full disease. From a meaning-full disease perspective it is of course fascinating that the unmanageability of it all created an explosion in the body; a blinding headache.
