Often enough during social events when one introduces oneself as an energy worker, healer or therapist, people ask the standard question “are you a spiritual person”? If not they say “you must into spiritual stuff”. No one has really ever stopped for a moment to consider what is ‘spiritual’, who is a ‘spiritual person’ and what exactly is this ‘spiritual stuff’?

Images of people dresses in exotic robes or men and women standing in uncomfortable postures or wise old men meditating on mountain tops normally flash through people’s heads. The way people use the term spiritual may imply that there is a physical reality separate from the supposed spiritual reality and people who are spiritual must therefore be different or weird or holier than the rest of the world.

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