Secular Guide To Spirituality

A Secular Guide To Spirituality

Version 2026.02.20


1. Getting Oriented: How to Use This Guide

1.1 Who This Guide Is For

1.2 Why This Secular Guide Is Necessary Today

1.3 How to Use This Guide

1.4 About Me and This Project

1.5 What This Guide Can And Can’t Do

1.6 How I Use AI Tools in This Guide


2. The Modern Spiritual Gap: What’s Broken and Why

2.1 Identifying the Modern Spiritual Problem

2.2 The Root Cause of the Spiritual Gap

2.3 What This Guide Proposes as a Solution


3. What Spirituality Really Is (Before Religion)

3.1 Overview And Aims

3.2 Your Spiritual Options

3.3 Spirituality Is An Innate Human Need

3.4 Two Paths to Spiritual Fulfillment


4. The Core Ideas Behind Secular Spirituality

4.1 Atheism and It’s Role In Secular Spirituality

4.2 Understanding Naturalism: A Philosophy Grounded in Nature

4.3 Existentialism: Creating Meaning Without Religion

4.4 Epistemological Humility in Secular Spirituality

4.5 How These Key Principles Work Together


5. What Secular Spirituality Aims For

5.1 What To Expect At The End Of Your Spiritual Journey

5.2 Spirituality Is Not Measured By Truth

5.3 Living With Uncertainty

5.4 Why It’s Still Ok To Be Religious


6. From Theory to Practice: A Step‑By‑Step Spiritual Process

  • 6.1 How the concepts of fate and destiny apply to secular spirituality
  • introduction
  • deconstruct, qualify, rebuild your beliefs
  • creative process in general
  • iterations, degree depends on where your are and where you want to go
  • simultaneously
    • Qualify or eliminate
      • Presuppositions
      • childhood environment, upbringing
      • culture
      • religion
    • simultaneous replace using a mix of these variables
      • theories
      • fields of study
    • activities, applications


7. Designing Your Own Secular Spiritual Path / Mix