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Spiritual Work

A spiritual experience can be triggered by work. Work is the activity that adults spend most of their conscious time performing.

See spirit.

Mastery of a task brings out zen experiences, or being in "the zone", when performing the task. Mastery is often attained when doing something that you enjoy enough to practice. The master can get into "the zone" regularly.

The feeling of harmony & coherence has beneficial effects on creativity & health. This creativity leads to novelty, or something new & different. This novelty expands the consciousness of the creator & the collective of humanity, thus is a Spiritual endeavor.

Cultural Definition

spiritual (wiktionary)

Adjective (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. "Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice."

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal. "a spiritual substance or being"

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

(Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical. "the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation"

work (wiktionary)

Noun

(heading, uncountable) Employment.

Labour, occupation, job. "My work involves a lot of travel."
The place where one is employed. "He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work."

(heading, uncountable) Effort.

Effort expended on a particular task. "Holding a brick over your head is hard work." "It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary."
Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. "We know what we must do. Let's go to work."
(physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. "Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground."
(thermodynamics) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.

Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. "We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags."

(heading) Product; the result of effort.

(uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production. "There's a lot of guesswork involved."
(uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool. "We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started.  The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work."
(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. "It is a work of art." "the poetic works of Alexander Pope"
(countable) A fortification. "William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works."

(uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.

(mining) Ore before it is dressed.

Pattern Expression

All Entities in Existence that are capable of modifying it's Philosophy are capable of doing spiritual work.