From the perspective of Thumotics, creating a personal religion has little if anything to do with taking good care of our own spirit and that of others. If anything, given the current understanding of "spirituality", it distracts us from attending to our spirit and has us attend to our religious beliefs instead.
Creating a personal religion can also deceive us into believing that by having a personal religion we're taking good care of our spirit. We might not be. Taking good care of our personal religious beliefs is not the same as taking good care of our spirit.
Being spirited, alive, precedes having a personal religion. In order to have a personal religion we must first be alive. We must first be spirited. Without spirit we cannot create a personal religion. Spiritedness ontologically precedes our personal religion.
In order to create a healthy personal religion, we do well to first take good care of our body, mind, and spirit. Just as an apple tree needs to be healthy in order to produce healthy apples, so we need to be healthy in body, mind, and spirit to produce whatever we choose to produce, a personal religion or anything else.
This begs the question: How do we take good care of our own spirit and that of others? It also begs this question: Why?
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