Any NARS devoted to spiritual development?

[sylvan]

Is there a (NA) religion which nurtures spiritual development?

Can laws nurture spiritual development?

If not, how can the capacities of spirit and soul be encouraged?

[Will.L]

Depends on what you define as spiritual development. Based on my understanding of that term, I'd say sure! Any of them have the potential to. It just depends on how it challenges the person, how it leads one to live, to look at the world differently, etc. To me, humanism is the only good that religions offer us, and so if it can affect someone in a small or big way to live more humanistically, then it is doing good. If it detracts from freethinking or promotes dogma, then it is doing bad. :)

Regarding laws, I think laws can certainly help people's spiritual development in the sense that they prevent or allow certain behaviors leading to a society in which one is free to pursue certain activities. I don't know if you would call this NURTURING though...

I personally don't believe in a spirit or soul, but a PERSON can be encouraged in their spirituality only through education. If you don't know what's out there, where do you have to go? Fortunately we (some of us) live in a word in which information is quite easy to come by, it's just a matter of an individual's desire, and the strength of that desire, to learn and to grow I think. Having a willingness to step outside of one's "comfort zone" is a big part of this in my view.

[aupmanyav]

If by being spiritual, you mean being in sync with other humans, other living beings, and nature, then NAR&P is all about it. Rules of civilized society, humanism, hindu 'dharma', buddhist 'dhamma', are all the same things (I do not know much about chinese and other far eastern philosophies of life). The easiest way to achieve this is to think less of oneself and more of the totality.