What are Spirituality & Spiritual Practice?

• somtehing like, this is opinionated and sort of just my schtick. I'll try to be narrowly descriptive but one way or another that you cut this up ends up prioritizing different aspects. Trying to achieve some like "cross-anthropological" perspective is presumptive and in any case just another view
  • again, nonetheless, I try to be descriptive and accurate as far as it goes
• my opinionated, hypermodern take here is that devotional and mystical stuff is a. largely contiguous with ordinary experience, b. would have been more common in times past, and c. is not really distinguishable from a bunch of other stuff, eg talmudic study is part of religion but what about ordinary legal study, mathematical study? lots of things arouse awe and devotion: group dance/chanting re sports events, esp music at sports events, music in general, superhero movies, etc etc.
  • and then it's just like, yeah, there's a bunch of these emotional and psychological states, they can be more altered, they can be more intense, they can be more spacious, submissive, devotional, etc; and in the usual modern view they're taken as mostly a separate domain but I don't buy this
• ghost touched my honker story (not the ghost but seeing god etc); devotional practice; mystical attainment: "held int he hands of the buddha/god" mooji peace pilgrim, harada roshi