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YMMV naturally, but here's a snippet of Richard Dawkins on secular spirituality:

Dawkins is equally emotional when he talks about the ashes of the planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker being taken to the Moon in a capsule aboard a space probe. "Shoemaker wanted to be an astronaut, but for reasons of health, he couldn't go. Instead, he spent his life training astronauts and conducting research on the specimens they brought back, and he gave the Shoemaker-Levy comet its name. When he died, people lobbied Nasa to send his ashes to the Moon, which they did, with a plaque [on the capsule] with a quote from Romeo and Juliet: 'And, when he shall die/ Take him and cut him out in little stars/ And he will make the face of heaven so fine/ That all the world will be in love with night/ And pay no worship to the garish sun.'"

It's not quite pagan worship, but "it's a fine example of secular spirituality", says Dawkins.

Obviously 'spirituality' like many words can be twisted, turned and used in a million different ways by a thousand people...

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