You are the first person that I have seen suggest that spirituality is emotional intelligence. But that makes a lot of sense.
Especially when trying to sort out the spirituality of disciplined masters of their craft (swordsman, martial artists, artists/performers, flow states) and how that marries to religious spirituality.
In Daniel Goleman’s book “emotional intelligence, he describes a Physiological link between physical states (breathing, posture, hr) and emotion. And as a two way street.
If we continue that link, physical discipline IS emotional management IS spirituality.
Also I never paired cognitive dissonance with agent disagreement. No idea why. Seems obvious now.
Are you all up proposing that spirituality is aligning the parts of us? There’s a discussion in Judaism where they talk about the animalistic self and the spiritual self. Which seems to confuse things compared to “spirituality is emotional alignment”. Thoughts?
I once participated in an ice water test. I maxxed out on the timer because I felt like it. Thinking that’s a willpower test is really not great science, “put your hand in the ice bucket for as long as you like”, “what’s the max time?” it really wasn’t an effective measure and I hope I didn’t break their experiment.
Specifically this is about encouraging people to choose the spiritual pull over the animalistic pull. Not alignment but rather choice.
Although I personally suspect that your options for congruence include picking one, picking the other or trying to find alignment.
“There’s a discussion in Judaism where they talk about the animalistic self and the spiritual self”—That sounds roughly like the id and the super-ego in Freudian terms (though he also includes an ego)
You are the first person that I have seen suggest that spirituality is emotional intelligence. But that makes a lot of sense.
Especially when trying to sort out the spirituality of disciplined masters of their craft (swordsman, martial artists, artists/performers, flow states) and how that marries to religious spirituality.
In Daniel Goleman’s book “emotional intelligence, he describes a Physiological link between physical states (breathing, posture, hr) and emotion. And as a two way street.
If we continue that link, physical discipline IS emotional management IS spirituality.
Also I never paired cognitive dissonance with agent disagreement. No idea why. Seems obvious now.
Are you all up proposing that spirituality is aligning the parts of us? There’s a discussion in Judaism where they talk about the animalistic self and the spiritual self. Which seems to confuse things compared to “spirituality is emotional alignment”. Thoughts?
Re animalistic self vs spiritual self: I’m confused too. I’d just label them as two subagents, but then why call one spiritual.
Perhaps you could say that spirituality is about giving the spiritual subagent more space by aligning other subagents with it.
Maybe the spiritual self is not a subagent but the agent, constituting of a subset of your subagents that are already aligned.
There was a study where people that recited religious memes had a lot more willpower (they held their hands in ice water much longer).
I once participated in an ice water test. I maxxed out on the timer because I felt like it. Thinking that’s a willpower test is really not great science, “put your hand in the ice bucket for as long as you like”, “what’s the max time?” it really wasn’t an effective measure and I hope I didn’t break their experiment.
Specifically this is about encouraging people to choose the spiritual pull over the animalistic pull. Not alignment but rather choice.
Although I personally suspect that your options for congruence include picking one, picking the other or trying to find alignment.
“There’s a discussion in Judaism where they talk about the animalistic self and the spiritual self”—That sounds roughly like the id and the super-ego in Freudian terms (though he also includes an ego)