In a previous blog post I distinguished between life-affirming and life-denying spiritualities. Life-affirming spiritualities inherently heal, empower and liberate our spirit. Life-denying spiritualities inherently weaken, tame, and suppress our spirit.
In my view, life-denying spiritualities are not real spiritualities. They are anti-spiritualities.
Another difference between life-affirming and life-denying spiritualities is this: Life-denying spiritualities tend to speak the language of transcendence. They promote ascending, going up and out of this world into a higher and better non-physical (spiritual) plane of existence. In other words, they promote escaping all together the less desirable physical realm and life in it.
I believe that the language of transcendence plays a significant role in the damage we humans do to the rest of the natural world. After all, why take good care of a place we're just visiting and looking forward to ascending out of? It could be called the "beam me up" approach to life.
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