SPIRITUALITY IS—Self-Reflective Consciousness

Personal/ social consciousness (spirituality) is kept vital by the exercise of self-reflectivity. Spirituality is consciousness, the energetic awareness that gives character to purpose and effectively elaborates the correlations of individuality and community.

The dynamic agency of self-reflective purpose is kept vital in the design and function of personal/ social intelligence — embodied in the hemispheres of the cortical brain in perpetual dialog. Hemispheric, cortical brain intelligence is characterized as “emotional” (female, faith) and “rational” (male, reason). The individual personality is continually active in process of transforming, “naturally”, genetically, and “nurturally”, memetically (culturally). The group interfacing of individuals characterizes the self-reflective persona of the group, the collective, the society.

Sustainable purpose is enabled individually/ collectively in the intentional pursuits of common wellbeing. The self-reflective interfacing of faith and reason happens by way of communication, which authenticates consciousness and personal/ social wellbeing. In the purposes of mutual intention and wellbeing, women and men together advance personal/ social self-reflectivity and moral relationships. [See http://ncrcafe.org/node/1999]

In essence, religion and civility are communally characterized in the authentic engagement of intentional spirituality, of moral relationships. The failure of emotional/ rational dialog effectively defeats purposes of good intentions and truncates spirituality from its resourceful role of vitalizing individuality and community.

Individuality supposes community as community supposes individuality; religion and civility suppose spirituality as spirituality supposes religion and civility. The reciprocal relationships of individual/ community, of religion and civility are sustained by the “process of reason”, which involves communication, consciousnesss and conscience — also called “trimorphic protennoia” (renewing “first consciousness”) and “trimorphic resonance”, [q.v. at Google].