Naturalization of spirituality (1)

Abstract

This article exposes the emergence of expressions of spirituality not linked to religious experience, and in particular that manifestation that seeks to place this human dimension as a natural phenomenon, recognizable and therefore transformable from the method of the sciences of Nature. It presents a broad framework that places this phenomenon in the development of theories that establish a continuum between biology and culture. Examples of authors, who have presented proposals for spirituality without God are given, and some that respond to the, so called, «really difficult problem» of how to account for the natural science of this phenomenon of consciousness. It closes by pointing out limits and referring to the presentation of a proposal of an anthropological model with clinical and theoretical foundations that, in order to account for the phenomenon of spirituality, requires a theoretical framework that surpasses the limits of natural science and goes, in this case, to psychoanalysis. This same model also shows that the spirituality elaborated on the basis of the religious experience of the subject is one of the ways of human maturation.