Book: Sceptical Spirituality

Doing your spiritual homework: a checklist

An index of the articles to date

If we want to get beyond silly and sentimental ideas, we have to put in the work. It’s not always easy, but it is rewarding in the end.

Learning to do your spiritual homework

Homework ? You mean like sitting at a table and studying? And using your ‘brain’? ‘And thinking’? Surely this is for kids, and not for adults.

Well, if only people did their spiritual homework when they were younger, they wouldn’t have to do it in middle and old age. But very few people take the quest for spiritual knowledge seriously, and can’t be bothered to think things through, so they remain in a state of spiritual immaturity, even on their deathbeds. It doesn’t have to be this way. All it takes is a bit of effort, and a healthy dose of scepticism.

Are there such things as spiritual ‘facts’? Let’s have a go

What’s the point of it all ?