I for one, find more spirituality in the notion of meaning and the psychology of being then metaphysics ever offered me.
A notion I have not shared with others in a long time, and I am curious...
Does anyone else relate to this (non-theistic or otherwise)?
If so, in what ways can you say to have experienced spirituality without metaphysics?
Is it even possible? Can the definition and notion of spirituality can sustain this and still be meaningful?
I've known people who discussed a dichotomy between spirituality and religion years ago, some of them were actually priests, and it related to the seperation between what they felt, practiced and believed usually and history, legacies or politics which they were estranged from or alienated by.
I've also known of some atheists who professed this dichotomy too for the reason of rejecting supernatural beliefs or order and affirming naturalistic wonders and beliefs, although sometimes it was connected with things like a western, secularised, "celebrity" buddhism too. This would be close to what you've described as a seperation between metaphysics and spirituality.
I dont really believe in these dichotomies to be honest, myself, personally, reading some of Erich Fromm's books and trying to figure out once and for all his own thinking, being a confirmed materialist and non-believer but also affirmer of traditional religion, including eastern buddhism and traditional Judahism, was pretty rewarding when thinking about this. Perhaps it shouldnt surprise me given that Fromm was a marxist and believed in the basic idea of thesis, antithesis, synthesis, new thesis but he does seem to have been able to reconcile some opposites. While firmly rejecting supernatural believes, which he thought were idolatrous and illusion, he seemed also to reject atheism.
Instead talking about non-theism and affirming an interpretation of Mohamides (spelling) teaching about God being non-corporeal as a kind of suggestion not to speculate about "that" any further and focus instead on the business of ethics, how to live and creating the kingdom of God as an actual existing social order in historical time as the culmination of human history.
I do believe in a lot of metaphysics, I do believe in a lot of things, without fear or favour though, which some people dismiss as nonsense or superstition because life is better that way. There are a lot, in my opinion, of alienated and estranged people out there who'll attack it and perhaps they have reason in their personal history or find rationales from human history and politics for feeling that way too but that's fine, everyone should so far as possible without interference with anyone else live after their own fashion, breath after their own fashion, think after their own fashion. Truth cant be harmed by that.