[Skybird]

Wanting to know by self-experiencing the answers to the Why, Where-from, Where-to, How-much-time, is spirituality.

Instead of that just believing something one has been fed, may it be a missionary, a claimed holy book, or one own's parents, is religion, and dogma.

Religious dogma that one believes while keeping in private, keeping to oneself, is an obsession.

The moment religious dogma takes to the public, it stops to be a private obsession only, not to mention being "spiritual", but becomes pure power-politics, no matter whether the majority of public believes the same way, or opposes its views. It's about controlling people and make them obeying.

Educating one's own children in a spiritual manner can only mean to teach them to ask questions and to want experiencing the answers themselves. And only then you can learn about how limited man's reach is to find such answers. For every answer, there opens new questions, it seems. And that holds a lesson in itself. No wisdom without realising how limited knowledge always necessarily is.

For me, science/scientific methodology, and spirituality, are no opposites at all, but share the same sceptical but open mindset. They are two ways towards the same goal, and sooner or later they merge and become just one way, even if you started by following just one of them . Put our heart into just one of them, and you win both.

But science and religion are not only opposites - they are antagonists. Any attempt to find a compromise between them can only mean to erode reason, and scientific mindset - like any compromise between food and poison can only mean to die when eating.

He who believes to know, in reality believes exclusively.

He who knows, must not just believe anymore.

In the end, self-realisation can only be had at the the cost of transcending oneself, forgetting oneself, overlooking oneself. And that is the essence of wisdom, and deep insight.