The Suffering Benefits of Spirituality

spirituality, these experiences that are transcended, where they're coming from, but they're not coming from the soul. Well, I think that these experiences feel connected to things larger than ourselves, appreciation of beauty. So where does it come from? If you go back into our evolutionary past, we didn't live in brick and steel and glass buildings. We lived in caves. And so, a sensitivity to nature would have had a very large survival benefit. But if we jump forward 300,000 years today, that feeling of connection to nature is tapping into something that has been hardwired into our brains hundreds of thousands of years ago to have survival benefit.