I just started thinking about what I would write to someone who disagreed with me on the claim "Rationalists would be better off if they were more spiritual/religious", and for this I'd need to define what I mean by "spiritual".

Here are some things that I would classify under "spirituality":

• Rationalist Solstices (based on what I've read about them, not actually having been in one)
• Meditation, especially the kind that shows you new things about the way your mind works
• Some forms of therapy, especially ones that help you notice blindspots or significantly reframe your experience or relationship to yourself or the world (e.g. parts work where you first shift to perceiving yourself as being made of parts, and then to seeing those parts with love)
• Devoting yourself to the practice of some virtue, especially if it is done from a stance of something like "devotion", "surrender" [...]

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