Spirituality and Me

Spirit comes from a Latin word, 'to breathe'. I breathe air which is matter but thin. That thin matter vibrates at my frequency when I feel spiritual. When do I feel spiritual? I feel spiritual when I recognize my place in this universe coming all the way down from Observable universe to Virgo Super-cluster, to Local group, to Milky way galaxy, to Solar system, to Earth, to continent, to nation, to province, to city, to hamlet, to my home, to my co-ordinates. I feel spiritual when I see a slug with four noses, a shrimp with five pairs of legs and with heart in its head, a giant squid with largest eyes, a dragonfly with lifespan of 24 hrs or a star with lifespan of trillion years, a jellyfish without brain, an octopus with three hearts. 

Yes, surely I feel spiritual when I see homo sapiens in black-coat and tie, but I feel more spiritual when I see that there are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.I feel spiritual when I get to know that William Shakespeare invented words in English language, or when I see that a scientist (Einstein) died before he could complete his greatest discovery, he spent years on his theory, but died with his unfinished papers still sitting on his desk. I feel spiritual when I see bug collectors patiently giving names to a vast collection of insects, or a paleontologist giving names to primitive fossils like Tiktaalik, or anatomists dissecting human cadavers while learning the name and organization of human body, or a neurologist winning Noble Prize on the discovery of slow viruses where people eat their friends. I feel spiritual when I imagine that what happened to a caveman when he ate mushroom plant?

 When I start to vision stuff, thoughts become things, now look at it; music, art, communication, ideas etc. I feel spiritual when I hear about hypothetical future tech, like cybernetic augmentation, nano machines or mind uploading. And I feel spiritual when I see a hunk of biological tissue which is known to think, remember, attend, solve problems, tell jokes, want sex, join clubs, write novels, exhibit bias, feel guilty, and do a zillion other things. I feel spiritual when I see humans evolving from stagecoach to steam locomotive, from bicycle to steam-powered train, from steam-powered automobile to Early aircraft, from airplane to combat airplane, from Bell X-I rocket plane to Rocket, from space shuttle to TAU deep-space probe.

I feel spiritual when I see places like Mauritanian desert, cool mosques, synagogues, temples, zen gardens, churches and ashram where people wearing Yarmulkes, djellaba, talisman, prayer shawl, tefillin, hasidic, khimar, ihram and believing in immortal soul, breath of god, presence of angels, power of prayers, effectiveness of rituals, validity of incantations, communion with voodoo spirits, hemoglobin-based miracles, the virgin's tears, the resurrection of crucified men, the magical properties of cowrie shells, the value of animal sacrifice, the transcendent effects of Egyptian saltpeter, or prayer wheels. Most of all, I feel spiritual when I see homo sapiens finding ways to circumvent the natural limits. I don't know of any other spirituality or state of being spiritual.