A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Embodied Spirituality

Abstract

In this Essay, I will illustrate how I experience a spiritual life as a human being, how language is limited to transmit or transfer this experience and yet, once imparted to the human being, it plays a relevant role to either support or interfere with the awareness of a spiritual dimension in human life. I will also show how some of the recent findings in Cognitive Science are clarifying what it means to be spiritually aware in relationship to body functioning, and human creative capacities and how they relate to my own experience.