The website

Spiritual Study is a portal to spirituality. It is like a finger, whose task is to point continuously towards the intimate experience of inner life, to help to continuously orientate and keep living our attention towards it. The experience of inner life lies behind the appearance of material things and lives in the ongoing intermingling of their braiding.

Here you can find:

• an online discussion forum where you can express and share yourself, your thoughts, questions, experience; you can also use the forum to get or give, depending on your competence or needs, counselling and help, either publicly or privately, or just to share friendship;
• a complete Course of Spirituality for all levels, from absolute beginners with no ideas about spirituality to the highest, most advanced, levels;
• a blog with videos, progressively integrated in the Course of Spirituality;
• the most complete indexed database, continuously updated, of best resources (books and articles, journals and magazines, websites and webpages, people, groups, videos), with reviews, for your research about spirituality.

Spiritual Study means primarily study and experience of spirituality as such, that is, in the most general perspective that embraces all together all kinds of spirituality, especially including secular, artistic, atheistic, agnostic, skeptic, materialistic and “spiritual but not religious” spiritualities; secondarily, we consider, in detail and specifically, the perspective of any particular spirituality as well. You can find an in depth study of the definition of spirituality in the academic article What is spirituality?

Spiritual Study is study of spirituality involving not only our mind and intelligence, but our whole life, emotions, body, experiences: it is cultivation of a spiritual experience, indirect connections, awareness of our self, art of living and building a lifestyle. This website is an instrument to make a spiritual experience existing and shared. It is aimed to be, as much as possible, the highest quality comprehensive portal to spirituality. You can use any part of it, and especially the course, as a ready instrument to practice meditation, nourishment, the pleasure of practicing the art of Spiritual Study. It is an instrument to cultivate and listen to the memory of spirituality carrying out its history in conjunction with the history of the world and our personal history.

Spiritual Study appreciates critical thinking: we like to consider multiple and opposing perspectives. Some people think that criticism is an obstacle to the spontaneity that is typical of spirituality. Well, this is already a good criticism! Criticism does not come just from reasoning, reflecting, analyzing; a lot of important criticism comes exactly from claiming the importance of experience, emotions, body, feelings, spontaneity. Here we love to take into consideration this kind of criticism, as well as any other kind of criticism and different perspectives. This thorough management of criticism makes Spiritual Study a place that offers the highest quality spirituality.