Why Religion Feeds the Mind but Spirituality Heals the Soul

Religion lives in the left hemisphere; Spirituality in the right.

Your brain.

You've got two hemispheres. Two sides.

The left side is concerned with being correct, facts, data, bullet points, in and out, right and wrong, black and white.

But the right?

The right hemisphere is experiential. Perceptive. The right thrives on art, imagination, creativity, connection, and story.

Throughout human history, ancient religions throughout all time, were the heart of the right-brain encounter—and the spiritual backbone of society.

The right brain is where we heal our trauma.

Growing up in fundamentalist Christianity, being taught all the reasons why your church is correct, (or even why just a few people in your church are correct)

...there comes a day when all the logic falls in on itself.

Implodes.

Tens of thousands of claims of being the "correct" church?

And the left brain is desperate to find the correct one.

But what if that was never the point?

And what if our left-brain, western-mind, in and out based religion isn't so much of the problem, but rather a symptom of something bigger?

And what if the feeling of living in an isolated, fragmented, painful desert is tied to the fact that our society has no more place to encounter the right brain?

To feel the love. The connection. The breaking then the blessing. The beauty. The story and community.

How do we breathe the Spirit back into the faith?