Is spirituality your special interest ?

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If so, was their a time frame when it seemed to begin?
What areas interest you the most?
Have you had personal exspiriences that have led you along your path?

Me - its always been this way.
I like quantam mechanics , spiritual psycology, energy/vibrational healing, amongest other things.
Yes i have , but would only be willing to share them generally here or if i felt moved to in pms in more detail.
Thanks for replying and i look forward to hearing from you .

I pretty much live by Spirituality. It is one of the biggest things in my life. It won't go away even when I am sick of it. Like you blackbird, I like quantum mechanics, energy/vibration, and the psychology of it all.

For me, it began some time last year - I think that I accelerated my Spiritual path by practising Yoga and meditation.

Lots of different areas really interest me - some feel more genuine than others. I really appreciate chanting and mantras. They are what really got me going.

I've had quite a few personal experiences which defy logical explanation. I was a sceptic all through my teenage years. Now I feel as though i'm pretty much powerless to the forces of nature and spirituality is a force of nature. I think so much stuff happened to me personally and I changed so much, that in the end I just had to give in and go with it. Some of the stuff that happened was so powerful I couldn't function normally.

I understand the people that just aren't interested, or who think it's a load of rubbish. It's an evolutionary thing. If you're not ready to evolve spiritually, then you won't get it. There are also lots of different levels of understanding of the whole thing.

Take care

My mind took a turn in the spiritual direction when I was eleven. I was going through puberty, and fell into what I now recognize as depression (possibly Seasonal Affective Disorder).

I spent a lot of time lying on my bed in my room, trying to come to terms with my feelings and thinking about the meaning of life. After mentally extrapolating time to an infinite point in the future, I saw that the meaning of life has nothing whatsoever to do with the future because time destroys everything including the gods. It was a very weird sensation. Thirty-seven years later, the memory still sends chills down my spine.

In the intervening years I've wandered around through comparative religion and the occult and Buddhism, and had a few more interesting experiences. I treat the experiences as real, but in a subjective sense rather than "the truth."

I would deem Myself a Spiritual person more than a Religious person. For to Me it would be better to be Spiritual for that is what God would like to see for Us all.

I heard Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, quoting someone else recently. I would love to know who the original was,

'...the age of politics and religion is dead. It is time for the age of science and spirituality.'

I feel that science has given us great insights into the world, the universe, which to me amount to a spiritual revelation. How can we not be humbled in the face of the awesome reality that surrounds us. This is why I try not to argue scientific logic against peoples spiritual feelings and insights.

Buddhist philosophy has had a strong appeal in the past, but I have never had the discipline to practise meditation. I used to cast I Ching readings obsessively, but I no longer believe that was healthy, even though the book itself contains great wisdom IMHO.

Since I became a Christian, I'll have to say, yes, spirituality has become one of my special interests.

I became a Christian 4 years ago.

The whole of Christianity interests me, but there are certain aspects that interest me most.

For example, I'm intrigued by the Table of Nations (Genesis 10) and where each modern nation might fit into it. Some nations are known for sure and some aren't, but all peoples must fit in there somewhere. If I knew where the Scots fitted in especially, I'd have a real epiphany and a warm fuzzy feeling.

The Bible has made me more interested in particular languages, i.e. the biblical languages - Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. And particularly, how these languages relate to English. Obviously, there's a lot of immediately recognisable Greek in our language, but since I became a Christian I've wanted to know about the connection between Hebrew/Aramaic and English. It's less obvious but there is a connection.

And I have become more interested in personal names (first names that is). I suppose it started with an interest in biblical names, but it has made me more intrigued about all first names.

I've always taken scientific ideas very philosophically. Most recently, the idea of entropy and what it entails. I can even see it in my own life. You see, even though the amount of energy in the earth system remains the same, the entropy decreases, as proved in my thermal physics book. So the earth has no choice but to increase in order and organization, including life and all you see. But the total entropy released into space minus the entropy absorbed by earth is greater than zero. This means that even though the earth is becoming more orderly (as my room will not attest) the solar system plus the earth is getting more disorderly. I can use analogy to observe that it is hard for me to find stuff in my room or get anything done if there is too much disorder. Also, if I start living my life worrying only about getting the job done, ignoring the side effects, then the external entropy I will produce will overwhelm the entropy I removed by completing the task.

I also learned from the book "A New Kind of Science", later shown to be semi-plaigarized but still correct, that in theory, if we were to come up with a theory of everything, we could simulate the entire universe from the start of the big bang until now and into the future. The only problem is that we would require a computer larger than the universe to do such a complete simulation. And if we did only a partial simulation, the part we didn't simulate would eventually come into play in the real universe, causing our simulation to have errors. It's sort of like the Matrix universe.

Oh, but back on topic, I found far too many inconsistencies in the religion of my youth (Baptist) to believe it anymore and so I rejected it completely and came up with my own philosophy of life out of the stuff I've learned and read.

I obsess about my anti-spiritual beliefs quite a lot, always forming new ideas about why I think it's total bull and why intelligent people can believe in such physically impossible drivel. Not sure if that counts.

My spiritual beliefs are very simple so I don't know if you could call them a special interest.

I guess i would define special interest as somthing that is almost like the filter that you see life through, its your thing,Obsession even.
Veresae, i would say that counts, thanks for joining in .
I dont think it has to be complicated either Nomaken .

It's been a major interest for a long, long, time.
And goes right down to the fundamental issue of whether it exists,
or whether it is essentially a subjective illusion.

Personal experiences have, on the whole, proven very misleading.
Like seeing an utterly convincing UFO. Bowel-wateringly convincing.
Only it wasn't one, as I discovered a little later.
Feelings I rate as highly dubious compared to cool thought.

I am on the extreme end of the empiricist spectrum. (Quantum Mechanics)
I believe in Quantum Physics more then evolution. (Only because I don't understand all of it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism

Since approximately age 10 I have obsessed endlessly with religous-type issues. Starting with mysteries of ghosts, etc. and particularly the story of the exorcist, which I read in the Usborne book of the unknown and freaked me out so much that for many years I prayed every night for "protection" against it ever happenning to me.

Soon after (age 12 - 14) I became obsessed with the mind-body problem, and used to bore my family to death with discussions of such. I also got involved with the christian union at school and worried endlessly about whether it was true, more importantly, were all my friends and loved ones going to burn in hell unless I managed to convert them? Regarding my obsession with the mind-body problem, I was pleasantly surprised during my first year at University, to hear of a branch of philosophy of mind known as "epiphenomenalism" - and realise I had thought this up myself in a garden in my mid teens. However, I wasn't actually on a Philosophy of Mind course (possibly unfortunate) and wasn't able to study it any further at university.

Recently I have been discovering more about paganism and witchcraft, also new age philosophy, and once again my obsession has been roused... I can't work out whether its 'dangerous' or 'interesting' - also a plethora of Catholic websites name such practises as a sure route to the devil. Anyhow, rambling now. Should stop typing

http://www.wrongplanet.net/asperger.htm ... a&start=45

I seem to be focusing a lot more on Christianity than I ever used to. My spiritual growth in this area seems to increase with age.

I think people go through phases in their lives. At the beginning of it they may be raised in a certain religion or raised to have certain spiritual beliefs, but they don't deeply think about them or contemplate them until later on.

For some people, a spiritual calling comes early. For others it comes later.

I've been a Christian all my life but didn't start seriously contemplating my religion, its truth, what it means to me, and its implications for mankind until about six years ago.

In an effort to understand many of the injustices in life, I turned to the Bible. The Bible seemed to explain everything to me.