Published December 31, 2012 | 
The Covenant is both the idea that we must acknowledge the essential truth of the division between secular and spiritual matters and also the commitment to treating the secular differently from the spiritual: all secular matters are governed by Reason alone, and all spiritual matters are governed by whatsoever is called from within us so to do.
Published January 6, 2013 | See Spirit. A person’s core truth of self, from a subjective, personal perspective. Used in place of “mind” when the purpose is spiritual, not secular.
Published January 6, 2013 | The idea that we can have very real and profound experiences that can touch us and teach us, regardless of whether or not the object of the experience is involved or even exists. Putting the emphasis on the nature of an experience and not its source.
Published January 6, 2013 | A person’s core self, from an objective, secular perspective. Used in place of “spirit” or”heart” when the purpose is secular or scientific, not spiritual.
Published December 31, 2012 | The manner of observance or worship of a Spirituality. Some spiritualities have very somber rituals, while others are more emotive and energetic, for example.
Published December 31, 2012 | An element of spiritual practice common in one form or another to most Spiritualities. Example: Prayer/Meditation, Sermons/teachings, Confession/Sin-eating, etc. The plural of praxis is praxes.
Published January 6, 2013 | The faculty and consequent tools that, if applied correctly, discard inconsistent and unjustified statements, claims, and beliefs leaving only that which must be necessarily true. The sole arbiter of secular and factual truth.
Published January 6, 2013 | A feeling of profundity, depth, or engagement beyond transient emotion. An experience of of connection or “compellingness”. The difference between mere sentiment and something more.
Published December 31, 2012 | Relating to matters of fact, proof, and of the real, objective world. Not dependent on feeling or opinion. The domain of Reason, and Reason alone.
Published January 6, 2013 | The truth that sometimes the proper response to a claim of truth is neither to believe it true nor false, but to reject it as unjustified and to simply say “We can’t say.” That Reason dictates that it is the burden of the one that claims to speak secular, factual truth to justify why what they say must be accepted as true, or retract their claim.