Episode 8 - What is Spiritual. Whisky or Ghost Spirits… Which has the Higher Proof?

Published: June 24, 2019, 4 p.m.

Pour yourself a whisky shot, slam it down and contemplate why a spirit might be called a ‘spirit’. What is a spirit? Who’s the ‘spirit’? Come on, that’s the spirit. Let’s drink some spirits! What do you mean by ‘spiritual’ when you utter the word? Have you considered? Anything that is equated to a belief system isn’t spiritual. So when I’m asked ‘am I spiritual?’, I must always reply by asking, “What do you mean by ‘spiritual’?”. In fact, anything I could possibly put in words would completely miss the point, for that which has true spirit has no words, symbols, energies, beliefs, or perspectives. While the spirit cannot correctly be portrayed as transient or permanent, it can also never be described as ‘eternal’ either.