The naturalization of spirituality (2)

Abstract

Starting from the affirmation that the spiritual dimension is constitutive of the human being, we present a theoretical proposal of an anthropological model that accounts for spirituality as an emergency of life and substrate for the living of a consciously assumed religious faith. The psychoanalytic view is adequated to study the evolution process of human maturation and makes possible the access to the unconscious world, in this case, the Object Relations Theory (ORT) is used as theoretical model of interpretation. What it may be the starting point of psychic reality is addressed point 0 of Bion. The concomitance of human maturation with spiritual maturation is also observed, pointing out the importance of the symbolizing function, as well as the different phases of spiritual maturation and its psychoanalytic correlate. Can our mind, our brain, perceive the ineffable mystery? We will approach the spiritual process with all its complexity of spiritual growth towards the mystical experience. How is the mystical phenomenon produced psychologically? What is the relationship between ineffable experience and ‘neurons’? To give an account of these realities and to answer these questions, a theoretical field not reducible to that of natural science is necessary.