True Spirituality

True Spirituality is an intimate affair.
Wittgenstein used to vaguely talked about “'das Mystische”, a realm inaccessible to analysis or articulate description.
I have used the word “true” attached to “spirituality”, because any manifestation that goes away from that indispensable “intimacy”, must be suspected. This obviously includes any relation whatsoever with organized religions, that in this sense, must be observed as possibly anything, except Spirituality.
I quite understand that my statement is rather nasty, but I don’t think that Spirituality can be bent and twist to fit into anything of the sort.
In organized religions we have morals, codes, rules and a lot of collective manipulation. But Spirituality is rather alien to all of them.
This seemingly extreme opinion is really in concordance with the essence of Jesus sayings in the Gospel. Not that I need to arrive to an agreement with what the Gospel said, but just for the record.

Wittgenstein “vagueness”, which has been criticized, here and there, could not be otherwise, taking into account the elusive nature of the issue involved. As Lao Tzu clearly wrote, “The Tao that could be explained is not the real Tao”.

Once the true role of organized religions is understood –to establish some particular moral standards that mostly will serve the needs of the most powerful men and corporations at a given time and place- it must be also clear that any pretended wisdom about what lies before or beyond this life, is just a rather conceited supposition.
The all-embracing power of organized religions has always come from the alleged visions of the alleged visionaries of the alleged Gods. Too many allegations for the rational mind to be comfortable with.

True Spirituality is a process that comes and goes mostly in Silence. It is a rather unseen activity, but its fruits are and have always been visible and tangible: kindness, tenderness, compassion, acceptance, forgiveness and peace. Not precisely the sort of fruits that we are watching coming out from organized religions in today’s world.


Manuel Gerardo Monasterio