Spirituality Justin Boyer
Until recently, humans have depended upon spirituality to provide explanations behind the inexplicable processes of the world. In their minds, we were one of the lower forms of active intelligence, besides the angels, gods, or other supreme beings. Spirituality existed as a potential explanation behind the source of our being and the reasons for our existence. Nothing in the immediate tangible world could readily explain these things. So instead, humans had to think beyond the physical world and begin conceptualizing a metaphysical realm. Through this, they hoped to instill meaning into people’s lives and distinct reasons to live morally. One of the most suspicious elements of spirituality is morals. Even now, science faces limitations when trying to suggest reasons for an intrinsic moral code. Noticeably, there seems to be some type of moral awareness programmed in all of us. Our current scientific reasoning inspires us to scrutinize brain scan images for a sketch of this unseen concern. Every day, we are confronted with moral concern. Unconsciously, we empathize with many people just by allowing our thoughts to detach from ourselves. Overcoming the inner desire to protect our own selves, we begin having that same equal concern for someone else. Ancient knowledge of spirituality purports that this empathy is evidence of our spiritual selves. Nearly every religion shares a belief that our spiritual selves strive to live harmoniously with other human beings. Additionally, they always stress the immorality of living an enclosed life, free of love and wonderment. Art provides us with the essential tools to illustrate our intangible realms. In our minds, we all hold some unique image of the ideal ideas of all things present on Earth. Our private realms all reflect some image of an unforeseen afterlife where all these ideal ideas are present. Nearly all art takes these spiritual ideas and attempts to communicatively share these ideals with other humans. All stories universally weave these ideas and create an illustration of our journeys towards creating these dreams. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Narnia, and many other well know fantasy classics all seem to paint our present struggle with human corruption and our attempt to restore the former glory of the ideal. Mythology originally existed primarily to show our relationship between the 79