Is a word that turns people off, because A: It has been used and abused for years by charlatans and religious nuts as an attempt to keep people in awe whilst sleight of hand did it's dirty work (hmm, sounds like politics and big business). And B: It's etymologically bound to 'mystery', which has negative connotations in the current climate of thought. I refer the gentleman to 'Anam Cara' by John O' Donohue, a work which although abhorrent to many who would say that it lacks hard science, nevertheless, at the very least, it illuminates the better sides of the 'spiritual' experience and places it in context in a modern world that illumines everything by flourescent light saying that 'THAT' is the way to view things. Science can take forever ever to tell us how to think, whilst we forget about *being*.

I refuse to live in a black and white world when people are telling me to, especially when there's so much delicious vibrant colour and shadow in the human experience of the natural world.