I agree with seathanaich above. Why invoke a loaded word that has the propensity to create so much confusion, yet you are, in essence, simply trying to allude to well known emotions, or a range of those emotions? Just be specific.

I recall getting confused while reading the later chapters of Sam Harris' book End of Faith, where he kept throwing that word - spiritual - around. I was confused because this guy is supposed to be one of the sharpest rationionalists around, yet he kept harping on about 'spiritual experiences'. Afterwards, when I Googled "sam harris spirituality", I found that several skeptics (including Randi) had noted that, for a rationalist, Sam Harris was confusing many people with his allusions to 'spirituality'. It turns out, he reads alot stuff from people like Dean Radin and thinks mystical experiences can be rational..so yeah no wonder. Harris obviously has a 'woo' fetish, for which he has been deservedly criticised by the rationalist community.

http://www.sacw.net/free/Trading%20Faith%20for%20Spirituality_%20The%20Mystifications%20of%20Sam%20Harris.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmske/is_3_13/ai_n29381143/

Of course, YOU might mean something different when you say it, but to the ears of most people, spiritual equals supernatural - at least in everyday colloquial usage. So rather than start a war of semantics with theists about the meaning of 'spiritual', I think as atheists we'd be better of without ever using that word. Words like comfort, empathy, ecstacy, euphoria, joy, peace, etc..better explain the range of sensations we experience which some of you here are preferring to call 'spititual'. 'Spiritual' sounds suspiciously New Agey, and will be construed as such by most people.

I dismiss it [the concept of spirituality] as surely as I dismiss other bogus religious constructs like "soul" and "mind".

The concept of mind is bogus? Then why do you bother to use the word "I"? If you've no mind, where is your sense of self seated? Your shinbone?

Please clarify this line of thought.

There is no such thing as "spirituality". It's just another bogus concept made up by religions and the religious. "Soul" and "mind" are just religious terms for "personality" and "brain" that have been made obsolete by science, but remain in use for their artistic connotations, and because of societal familiarity with them.

The same is true of "spiritualality". What does this term actually convey? It's meaningless. Humour, kindness, enjoyment of life, love, joy - these are all real, identifiable qualities which people have, or don't have. What does "spirituality" contribute to any of them? It's just a term coined by by a pre-scientific society, today used by the religious to pretend that they have access to some secret that non-believers of their god and faith can't gain access to. I dismiss it as surely as I dismiss other bogus religious constructs like "soul" and "mind".

It is interesting that the woman you spoke with was looking for spirituality in atheism. One can't seem to get away from that need.

Basic HUMAN needs that have been highjacked by specific creeds tend to work that way, yes.

Also I am working to answer your 10 questions to pastors. I will post my answers, as a pastor's wife, in the coming week on my blogspot.

*Look, up in the sky - it's a bird; it's a plane; it's... Super Jesus!*

If you can't provide evidence that he isn't Jesus, then that proves that he is.

Yes, I admit that's the New Atheism's greatest failure.

He's secretly Jesus.

You're on to something. I mean, has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same room together?