Can spirituality and technology live together?

Spirituality and technology

What is spirituality?

Spirituality could be said as the experience from religious beliefs and traditions which may involve oneself believing in a supernatural realm beyond the ordinary observable.

_{As we have various religious beliefs and traditions is another cause of the emergence of individual spiritual existence. The Muslims believe in God called Allah and his creations. The Christians believe in Jesus as the son of God and the holy spirit, and so do the traditional worshippers who believe in the existence of their deities as the origin of the world and creation. The atheist never believes in the existence of God, gods, or any supernatural beings.}

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What is technology?

Technology is thereby the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes involving the branch of science that deals with engineering, applied science, computer science, and many more.

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I would say technically, technology brought about a great change to the universe. And taking a look at the definition of spirituality it does not have much in common or seems interwoven. They are entirely different from each other.

Technology and spirituality could still be looked into as a discussion. The relationship between spirituality and technology, the advantage of technology to the spiritual world, and many more.

The relationship between spirituality and technology

Looking back to days in the past when everything was done through manual effort, the source of power was from animals and human efforts (slaves). Things were quite advanced to them, only if they could dream of better ways to do things.

But there come religious beliefs cutting down some of these acts and traditions, their ways of doing things becoming more weakened. But a man would always think further. The stronger the religious beliefs, the stronger the advancement in the technological revolution.

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Back in the days when the use of slaves was used for transportation. It might seem unfair to some traditions as human brutality, then there came the use of domesticating animals (beasts of burden) as a way to do work.

It got a gradual improvement from there to the discovery of the moving wheel with a log of woods and there advanced to the innovation as the first moving vehicle.

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The spirituality in humankind never ceased. It continued to improve every day. Down the line after years of moving vehicles, there come the steam engines and steamboats. At this stage the spirituality in technology was amazing.

Travel down to today’s world of technology where the gradual growth in technology already resulted in electrical vehicles, automobiles, and many more.

This is just a single example, if we are to dive into other aspects and the advanced technology has brought, talking about the information technology how it moved from burning fires, leaving signs and signals as means of communication to the modern digital world we find ourselves where telecommunications companies had made it easy.

Technology and the spiritual world surely have something in common. Because as technology keeps growing, so does our spiritual journey keep moving. Advancement in technology has played its own role in the universe.
The advantage of technology to the spiritual existence cannot be overlooked. It sometimes looked like technology itself remains a mystery as it continues to advance further.

Conclusion

If I were asked the question. Can spirituality and technology live in the same world? My answer would be YES. Because technology has touched all part of live and made its way to humans heart. How odd would it have been if the world remain stagnant without any improvement and innovation?
Technology is a spiritual thing that comes from the mind of human and paved its way to the spiritual world.

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