ABSTRACT
There are probably as many definitions of spirituality (and its alleged dop- pelganger or opposite, religion) as there are people defining it. This is, after all, a poststructural age in which meaning is greatly dispersed and decentered (but see James [1929] on the Varieties of Religious Experience, which quite pre-dates poststructuralism). For me here, spirituality is totally embodied in the very life I lead, and introspecting about it is part of my spiritual journey. I can characterize that spirituality in many ways, such as connectedness, the transpersonal, a set of ‘spiritual’ practices and dis- courses, fully inhabiting the time-space matrix, and links to specific cul- turally-defined forms of spirituality, such as Buddhism or chi-gong. How I think about it and more importantly experience it may paradoxically have a certain coherence in being something “I” experience but also a certain incoherence in that my experience is never quite repeated the same way. I definitely do want to say that it is not merely intellectual or even intellectual at all, but rather it is the fullness of being involving something I can only call the mind-body-energy-spirit continuum with duality showing up more in language than in experience.
