My belief is first comes sensation then emotion then conscious thought then spirituality as a way of symbolically processing sensation holistically
Every time you blink your eyes there is a "bubble" created in your visual perception. Ie you don't know what is happening while your eyes are closed. Analogous things happen with the other sensors. All there is is perception in free flow. Logic is the attempt to tie these perceptions into cohesive wholes, but because we are biological sensors that can be damaged we just happen by complete chance I'm sure ignore wide swaths of reality in order to tie the cohesive wholes into forms that reinforce our egos.
^this is where you stop if you're an existentialist
Next level: realize that you're not so different from the other biological sensors around you. Then if you're aware of others around and history you can start to relate emotionally to WHY people believe what they believe even if you disagree. This will let you place yourself in their shoes and create a way of viewing creation stories and death stories as what they really are. Metaphors for events in the individual/culture. Symbols of perception
Next level: the extra-human world. The world of plants, animals, microscopic organisms, etc, their parts (organ systems, cells, dna, rna, proteins, etc, their constituent compounds, elements, etc, the quarks, strings, and math of which they are composed, universes, super massive black holes, quasars, and galaxies, etc
This lets you see that you're in a constant soup of interaction. In fact it gets so complex even math breaks down in trying to describe it. This is where your identity becomes one with your physicality. Where you realize your own universality. That's when the cool shit starts where you start doing on the flt perceptive, emotive, mind poetry and become a soul
There are so many ways to put it all together to "make sense of it all"
YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
Whether I die or am reincarnated go to another plane of existence or heaven or hell WHO GIVES A FUCK
Everyone agrees we have 100 years here if we're lucky so you best be damn fuxking sure I'm gonna live 200 years in that time if I have anything to say about it. And the whole time I'm going to float and be happy and spread love cheer and goodness wherever I go but you better believe I'm going to be riding life's ass @ 80 mph in a schoolzone because I deserve to give it my all and reshape the parts I encounter to really LIVE. That's what I think about the afterlife, it's a motivator to make the most of the time we have HERE