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The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,_ he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. __ithout the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random speck of matter in the universe. It__ we who understand it, and we who give it meaning. All our centuries of looking up at the night sky and watching it wander through the stars. All those nights of watching it through the telescopes, looking at a tiny disk trying to see canals in the albedo changes. All those dumb sci-fi novels with their monsters and maidens and dying civilizations. And all the scientists who studied the data, or got us here. That__ what makes Mars beautiful. Not the basalt and the oxides

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Twenty percent of Americans describe themselves as __piritual but not religious._ Although the claim seems to annoy believers and atheists equally, separating spirituality from religion is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It is to assert two important truths simultaneously: Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit. One purpose of this book is to give both these convictions intellectual and empirical support.Before going any further, I should address the animosity that many readers feel toward the term spiritual. Whenever I use the word, as in referring to meditation as a __piritual practice,_ I hear from fellow skeptics and atheists who think that I have committed a grievous error.The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning __reath._ Around the thirteenth century, the term became entangled with beliefs about immaterial souls, supernatural beings, ghosts, and so forth. It acquired other meanings as well: We speak of the spirit of a thing as its most essential principle or of certain volatile substances and liquors as spirits. Nevertheless, many nonbelievers now consider all things __piritual_ to be contaminated by medieval superstition.I do not share their semantic concerns.[1] Yes, to walk the aisles of any __piritual_ bookstore is to confront the yearning and credulity of our species by the yard, but there is no other term__part from the even more problematic mystical or the more restrictive contemplative__ith which to discuss the efforts people make, through meditation, psychedelics, or other means, to fully bring their minds into the present or to induce nonordinary states of consciousness. And no other word links this spectrum of experience to our ethical lives.

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Sam Harris

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion