The Spirit: alternative views

Julian Brotherton considers some descriptions of the inner voice

by Julian Brotherton 16th December 2011

‘No, I’m not religious, but I am spiritual!’ We regularly hear this nowadays and often from members of the Religious Society of Friends. It could mean various things. For some it involves serious doubts about traditional pictures of God ‘out there’ as a Super person, although Simon Best in his George Gorman lecture confidently used ‘God’ in a fairly old-fashioned manner.