Spiritual Potential Needed by Every Human During Life
Author: Jacob Ereste
Freelance Journalist
Indeed, spiritual values for humans began to exist since humans first realized their existence and began to ask about the meaning of life, death, love and their relationship with a higher power in this universe.
This means that spiritual values emerged along with the growth of human consciousness, since prehistoric times. Real evidence can be traced from human funeral rituals in prehistoric times, such as Neanderthals who buried their bodies with tools and flowers.
In the Neanderthal (ancient) human group that lived around 400,000 years ago in Europe and West Asia — as relatives of modern humans — they were physically and genetically different. Those who already used stone tools, made fire, clearly showed signs of culture through funeral rituals as a form of spiritual and social awareness.
In the development of human spiritual values, it goes through stages and is greatly influenced by life experiences, environment and self-awareness with the process of basic awareness stages – instincts and emotions – since childhood, when they begin to feel affection, fear or security. That is how spiritual values are formed emotionally and intuitively. The role of emotions in the development of spiritual potential for humans is very important because emotions are a bridge between inner experience and spiritual awareness. While emotions – which include affection, empathy, fear and peaceful feelings – will greatly help to feel and understand spiritual values more deeply.
Emotional energy can encourage efforts to absorb the meaning of life that flows with oneself, others and the power in the universe that is higher and greater. The more real spiritual experiences are processed through emotions, the more spiritual experiences will ignite and illuminate the heart. So, the potential of emotions that are processed well can be used as a tool in growing spiritual awareness and understanding to then complement the mind and emotions to absorb the essence of spiritual experience to be more meaningful for life and life in this world.
The relationship between emotions and intuition turns out to be very closely related to increasing a person’s spiritual awareness and understanding. Because each supports and deepens the process of inner awareness. Because emotions can be empowered as triggers and drivers to deepen and experience spirituality as a provision for a beautiful and happy life. While intuition can guide the mind to give whispers to further enter the vast spiritual realm. And intuition can strengthen spiritual awareness and understanding in a broader, limitless horizon. So, spiritual exploration has no end point, except for a terminal or a kind of stopover to simply gather energy to be able to continue the long journey.
That’s how, emotions and intuition play a controlled role to participate in pumping up the spiritual journey with harmonious resonance to understand the meaning and essence of spirituality that is truly needed by every human being for the perfection of living together and being close to God’s circle. So that all human souls and bodies can always be protected from all evil intentions and actions.**
Banten, June 12, 2025
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