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| Robert and Shana Parke Harrison |
From the beginning of history, we see that all human communities develop a certain degree of spirituality or not linked to religious forms. Changes in the spirituality and even in those forms of religion are related to different life forms and to organize human groups.
In a detailed analysis of the great moments in history we see a parallel between the labor and social structures and different religious or spiritual traditions. Thus we find that the people who lived in the same way, mythical worlds were identical in their deep structure.
In many preindustrial societies, symbols, myths and rituals did not have a religious purpose, but programmatically.
Accepting this premise, the emergence of industrial societies represented a transformation of collective programming systems, replacing the previous through sacred stories, myths and symbols, ideological and scientific.
The emergence of industrial and postindustrial societies had to mark the start of the progressive marginalization of religion as a way to live the radical dimensions of human societies themselves extinct.
The development of modern societies, continuous innovation, global knowledge and information, has made another important mutation in the ideological structure. The new collective programming should encourage the creation and continuous change, because that is the key to economic success.
In preindustrial societies, spirituality and religion came mediated by a collective agenda, agrarian, authoritarian, patriarchal and static, which precluded any change, citing the submission and belief.
In modern societies, the way spiritual, inner way, should be able to express themselves through the continuous creation, continuous change, equality and freedom, excluding the patriarchy, and beliefs, because they set exclusions that have no place in a global society.
As a result the new companies are emerging secular and without belief in parallel with the changes in the way of survival of human groups.
In the new society we face a challenge and a risk to build and to build all aspects of our lives, no longer come from the past or are descended from the heavens. The quality of our projects will depend on how you use our science and technology, and the fate that we give our life for people on the earth and the earth itself.
In a secular society without belief, can accommodate the wealth of all traditions, and all are within reach of all humanity.
This change in the new company has also reached some religious sectors, which include the possibility and necessity of a secular spirituality. I remember the words of the Dalai Lama, visiting Argentina, said that "makes no sense to say that one religion is better than another" and that the world needs a lay spirituality, not religious, but based on values \u200b\u200bsuch as love and compassion.
also should be noted that religions are relatively recent, and that humanity has lived many tens of thousands of years without religions with them, but always with a spiritual sense.
is why we should restore conceptually the distinction between religion and spirituality. The latter is much broader, and religion is just one of many ways that spirituality could be realized human being.
secular spirituality is a return to sources, the relocation of spirituality in its natural place: the deep human existential.
not necessary to be "religious" to meet their own spiritual realization, needless to belong to a particular religion. Just be a man of integrity and claim the fullness of their own human potential. Spirituality is thus a purely secular issue. Is so identified with the deepest being, which comes to the human quality.
Today the science, especially quantum physics, has highlighted the approach to spiritual phenomena from science itself. The microbiology of the brain has spun new concepts like "intelligence emotional "(Coleman) and" spiritual intelligence (Zohar Danh). Spirituality has ceased to be a mystery "supernatural" to show how a specific capacity of the human being to be brought to the realization makes him a complete being.
secular spirituality is characterized by its qualities of modesty, sincerity, tolerance and respect for others, qualities that harmonize with the principles of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This spirituality, it also implies independence of thought, pursuit of personal truth, doubt and deepening constructive universal truths. Do not forget that the term laico procede del griego y significa: “lo que pertenece al pueblo”, y su sinónimo latino es “universal”. Por tanto la espiritualidad laica es universal, opuesta al integrismo, al totalitarismo y al fundamentalismo
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