Spiritual Rationality

Spiritual rationality, in my view, is composed of three main considerations. I want a spirituality which satisfies all of them, and I believe you should too. It should be:

Sane: truthful, accurate, not mistaken or false about the world or the contents of our minds, and furthemore conducive to sane communities and sane societies.

Effective: able to achieve the goals it advertises, and both calibrated and honest about how successfully it can do that.

True (perhaps, right, perhap also just good): true to ourselves and to our values, both not denying our values or trying to "transcend" them, but also able to discard chaff, confusion, and ignorance about the nature of experience and value. Moreso, deeply beautiful and aligned with goodness, as best as we yet understand it.

This list is not necessarily comprehensive, and I'm not quite happy with any of these words, but they'll do for now. Once again, as I've said over and over, see also nebulosity.

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Spiritual Rationality: the third leg of the stool

in the first two legs it's taken as a given that one has values, and part of the claim is that in some sense epistemic and instrumental rationality as theories are agnostic wrt your values (this is a bit fraught, and both of them in fact make prescriptions that are contrary to a lot of people's intuitions in many cases)

this is maybe a fine stance if we assume that values are basically static; insofar as we're concerned with changing our relationship to phenomena, experience, etc etc then indeed we need a third leg here or the stool topples over! ["changes to the apprehension of one's values"]

Rational Spirituality

so the problem here is not just, how do we evaluate changes to our values, changes to the apprehension of our values, we also care about doing it successfully!