Version 2026.02.20
1. Getting Oriented: How to Use This Guide
1.2 Why This Secular Guide Is Necessary Today
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)
3.3 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 It’s Truth
5.4 Its Still Ok To Be Religious
6. From Theory to Practice: A Step‑By‑Step Spiritual Process
6.1 From Understanding to Living
6.3 How the Concepts of Fate and Destiny Apply to Secular Spirituality
6.4 Deconstruct, Qualify, and Rebuild Your Beliefs
6.5 Using the Creative Process in General
6.6 Iterations: Degree Depends on Where You Are and Where You Want to Go
6.7 Doing the Work Simultaneously (Not Sequentially)
7. Designing Your Own Secular Spiritual Path / Mix
- Intro to things related to secular spirituality
- Theories about how the world works
- facts and fields of knowledge that you can learn indirectly from like history, anthropology, rtc
- Activities to stimulate and or calm your mind, practices like meditation, flow, walking, breathing etc