A simple proposition:
Every human being with a normal mind has the capability for two opposing attentions - outward and inward - with respect to one's physical sense organs. Most humans don't use the capacity to look inward and it atrophies. Spirituality is simply dusting off and reusing that capability.
When a certain percentage of humans goes inward regularly to subtler and subtler levels, human evolution will become spiritual as well as intellectual.
The rest of this post will be entirely theoretical for the atrophied :-)
Going deeper inward requires less physical energy and more mental relaxation, aka surrender.
One human is unlikely to fully grasp the extent of human knowledge. Somewhat similarly, one will never reach the ultimate inward levels of transcendental experience. Partly because, at that level, there will _be_ no separate "one" to have that experience.
Inward attention - longer, deeper, and broader - transforms one's perspective of oneself, from a separate entity to a more and more connected one at subtler levels. Going even further inward leads to a universally connected perspective. There is an even subtler perspective, of a transcendent whole with embedded physical bodies.
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