spirituality is about enlightenment, awareness, etc.
all mystical religions have this as the centerpiece. they are focused on a form of communion that creates awareness thru connection. it's also especially feely bc it creates a holistic sense of belonging, feeling your place, finding your own liberation from yourself, your past, etc. you find a way to absorb the world and affirm it even in its most glaring contradictions. you find a way to identify with the parts of the world that were once seen as foreign, threatening, and decidedly OTHER to the ego.
i think this thread is awesome and the fruit of the holy spirit and the kaballah links are really consuming. the idea of a MAP is very strange but makes sense. the lazy tao analogies "the Way" etc.
spiritual enlightenment is thru art, ritual, and religious expression. it is founded on a perceptual experience, a sudden flash of insight or intuition, a glimpse of something greater. it is existential and metaphysical. it is fucking cosmic. that these things can only be represented on a map, that there is a journey that must be undertaken, is to say that our capabilities for experiencing them are predicated on a journey thru time, for we cannot seem them in their simultaneity in one glimpse, grasp their eternal nature, their unfolding, etc.