To me, that's what it means to be spiritual -- what makes your spine tingle. It's what gives you a sense of awe and wonder and transcendence. It doesn't matter to me if you call it God or the cosmos. We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.
--Michael Shermer
The Weird-Woven Cosmic Area Rug
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Fun fact: the other day I read that "the word *weird *derives from the Old
English *wyrd*," and that "as used in the profoundly Catholic culture of
Anglo...
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