Abstract

Usually moods are associated with mental health In this context they are often related to spirituality An example of such an approach is found in the book of K Raab Mayo Creativity Spirituality and Mental Health Exploring Connections Routledge 2016 In consequence spirituality can be considered as a tool to improve mood In this paper another approach towards moods is proposed a philosophical one based on phenomenological theory as developed by H Schmitz G B hme and T Griffero This vision of moods called by these authors atmospheres will be interpreted in the context of spirituality and applied to a new perception of it or perhaps better a new understanding Thanks to this we will propose another key to the interpretation of classical spiritual texts with a hope that such interpretation will bring spirituality closer to life and refresh its important affinity with art This reflection arises from an observation of Cassirer who pointed out that lan guage religion art and myth though they share the same structure have in fact separate modalities of spiritual form geistige Auffassung and geistige Formung Cassirer 1977 7 1 The structural affinity of different realities is crucial in identifying their mutual relationships As N Hartmann points out The world has a shape given by the Spirit and despite its unity the world is by no means a simplicity but it salvages a concrete multiplicity of different directions and actualizations Hartmannn 1938 60 2 If this is true one can say that spirituality is everywhere What is needed is merely to discoverit The truth of spiritual forms is to be measured by these forms themselves