Question by Smote: Atheists: Do you believe in spirituality, spiritual healing, karmic balance or anything like that?
Best answer:
Answer by TEH TYME KITTEH ~pantheist~
No to some and Yes to some, Spirituality has nothing to do with healing or Karma, but I do believe in the balance necessary in nature.
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I believe in that for which there is evidence.
No
inner alchemy could be for real
but I am way too lazy and it is hard
but I open to it as I have read many books
about this subject and the power of Chi
no
Spiritual healing in the sense that positive thinking can be benaficial
Some atheists are spiritual, others are not.
I’m somewhat spiritual. I believe in ghosts and I believe in the possibility of an afterlife. I just don’t think there’s a god controlling all of it.
spirituality, yes, look at carl sagan
spiritual healing as in homeopathy, no
and I dont know what karmic balance is
not one bit.they are all confidence tricksters.
None of it.
Nah.
I’m more into sex, drugs and rock and roll.
If I get really sick though, I’ll come to a religious person for some faith healing.
I’ll give it a fair listen but I won’t adopt it.
Define “spirituality”.
..As for spiritual healing:
I think the placebo effect might sometimes make it seem like it works.
But not *actual* spiritual healing, no.
And I don’t believe in karmic balance, nope.
Basically I see no reason to believe in anything supernatural, period.
Why would I believe in something which not only has zero supportive evidence, but doesn’t even have a clear concept of itself?
My definition of ‘spiritual’ is that which has to do with the spirit – spirit meaning the non-physical aspect of a person: their thoughts, their imagination, their feelings, desires, emotions, dreams, character, personality, memories etc – none of these things are physical, yet we all experience them.
Spiritual healing is simply using your emotions and will to keep a positive attitude toward health – nothing magical or supernatural about that.
Karma? dubious
Yes, yes, & yes.
Best bumper sicker ever: My Karma ran over your Dogma
Yes. I believe other people believe them, so they exist, at least as beliefs. Believe in something with enough belief, and the belief can manifest itself as something other than mere belief. I believe that belief can lead to the belief that belief itself enough to cause belief in others. Ummm…belief! Sorry, I just wanted to see if I could use the word “belief” or its variable, “believe,” as many times in such a short span as Obama uses the word “unprecedented.” Was I successful?
yes, no, and no
Personally, no not really. Not unless you play with the definitions of each in some way.
Also, I think spiritual healing works better than nothing simply because of the placebo effect.
why would we believe in something that has zero evidence and has never shown to actually work?
I believe that you can control your physical well being to a degree with a good state of mind. I don’t know if any the things you mentioned fall into that category.
I’ve seen people who want to get better recover much quicker than ones that get depressed about their illness.
Not really. None of those things (say spirit healing, for example) have been proven beyond doubt to actually work beyond a placebo effect, so it’s hard for me to really throw my support behind it. As for karma, well, you see plenty of bad things happen to good people while bad people manage to get away with being douche-canoes, so… no, don’t really believe in that either.
What I believe in are things that have proven to be effective. I believe in things that *work*.
No, no, no and….no. I do not believe there are any supernatural forces at work. They don’t heal, they don’t keep a balance, they don’t exist. I don’t believe in the paranormal at all. That is why there are TONS of paranormal investigators who can claim decades of experience, but not one that can prove anything.
I think those things are mostly false. Karmic balance can happen in obvious examples like if you are good to your friends, they will be good to you, but there is no magic involved.