What Is Spirituality ?

We concentrate briefly on three points. First: what is Spirituality ? Second: the challenges one faces in bringing spirituality to the fore in our contemporary world. Thirdly: what are some possible solutions in bringing our spirituality to the fore? I . Now, What is spirituality? I have been attempting to address this issue for a very long time. For me the essence of spirituality is the relationship between the human being and the divine – that is the starting point. Out of that relationship emerges a certain notion of the transcendent and the sacred. You cannot talk of spirituality and ignore the transcendent and the sacred – this is fundamental. When you look at the way in which Communism has talked about spirituality, for example at writings by the early and middle stage Marxists, they talked about spirituality devoid of any reference to the transcendent and sacred. For me that is not spirituality, for the transcendent and the sacred are vital in understanding spirituality.