You can be religious and believe in God and not be spiritual at all. Very religious people believe only in their own way and think that every other way is wrong. They even go so far as to say it's the only way or you burn in hell.

Truly Spiritual people however are tolerant of all different beliefs as they know that it is to each his own way according to their own evolution and accept this and don't interfere in others beliefs.

God however is central to both for without God there is no Religion as well as no spirituality. I know that some will disagree with this and say But I don't believe in God and I'm spiritual. Whether you believe or not or know or not it is the awakening of God within you that is giving you the impulse to be a more spiritual individual.

I get a daily mail from "the Universe and today's was this.

Of course there are exceptions, but all-in-all it seems to me that those who are religious, cling, whereas those who are spiritual, seek.

I'd say I seek.

I am more like this Nontheistic religions than I am this Atheism
peace

true religion is at the same vibrational level as spirituality,
it is the cessation of free thinking and dogmatism
that imprisones the ego with culture expectations;
compassion, universality and retired self-centeredness remains
does any religion still champion this?

this depends a bit on what you consider "God." if you mean in the Christian sense, than no, believing in "God" does not equal spirituality. spirituality and God are two separate things. i dont believe in the "God" described in monotheistic religions. a creator who has power and control over all, but i would consider myself spiritual. so let me try to explain that... i believe that our bodys and our souls are two separate entities and that our souls separate from our body when we die and enter the spiritual realm and i believe that you can be more or less in touch with this "soul" during your waking life and spirituality is just working on developing the connection between your body and your soul. but if you changed the definition of God to describe this other realm... that changes things -thats as much as ive got.

(ps I used to be very Christian)

well that is where you are wrong i do not believe i know. as for the name you give God: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God there is alot of names but it point all to the same God. Religion as some good and bad in it take what is good and leave the rest. as for spirituality it is from the spirit. spirituality is not from cult or dogma or people trying to make money. for me spirituality is :Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality;[1] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.”[2] Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.[3] Spirituality is often experienced as a source of inspiration or orientation in life.[4] It can encompass belief in immaterial realities or experiences of the immanent or transcendent nature of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality

if you do not believe in God then are you atheist? then you believe in nothing only the material world exist then at death nothing of you remains it gets pitch black.

well i do not judge you . you are free to experience annything you like or believe in annything you like you have free will.

In one word yes...god, universal force, all powerful, high power...and different religions have different names...it is that "force" that is beyond our understanding exactly as is spiritual "force". For me it is evident that there is "something" far beyond our comprehension so i believe in an "energy", however i don't follow a religious (human) spiritual leader, that is, i don't follow a particular religion.

Belief in "God" can equal spirituality, but it all depends if that belief manifests in a spiritual experience. If belief is purely an intellectual idea or activity, then it won't be spiritual since the intellect and thinking mind is not of a spiritual nature (but purely thought).. spirituality encompasses those experience beyond the intellectual mind.

Unfortunately most "believers" are caught in an intellectual activity, thinking it is actually spiritual due to the subject matter. They then wonder why they are not experiencing "God" at all in their lives.

A non-believer can most certainly have a spiritual experience and existence.. as evidenced by religions & systems that contain no belief in "God", such as certain types of Buddhism, Yoga, Magick, etc.

Absoulutly not ! lol. The issue of connecting to gd is what makes soene spiritual, When it ocvmes to god, or a creator, the best thing abouty it is that it is a part of everything, so when u learn to appricate god, u see that u cna appricate life, and that is a TRUE spirirtula connection. I am a channeler but seth form Jane roberts, describes god in teh greatest way, and even if u do not believe in him, this desription makes alot of sense.

"God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality he has created ,and yet he is within each one of these, without exeption. He is therefore within each man and women , he is also within each spider, shadow and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit. God can only be experianced, and you experience him whether or not u reailize it through your own existance. In the most inexapable truth, he is not human in ur tems at all, nor in ur terms is he a personality. Your ideas of personality are too limited to contain the facitts of his multideminsonal existance,," ................Seth Speks, The Eternal Validity of the Soul...... Channeled by Jane Robberts Recorded by Robbert Butts Material by Seth

love n light,

rob