She is psychologically healthy. Even more so than I am.

You don’t need more roads, you need better quality ones :)

Ugh, I can imagine. I think gnostic $anything$ would be unpleasant to talk to.

Do gnostic atheist even exist? I think the distinction is only there to tease people who think that you can really know anything…

That’s what most people think, but when you go on long meditation retreats the experiences that you can have are quite profound and very far beyond being calm and in control. Those experiences are transformative. Spiritual is not really a bad word for it, except that with meditation it is all so very clear. You can explain exactly what happened, what the transformative insight was and how it changes your perspective. It is spiritual, yet lucid and repeatable.

I practice meditation quite seriously, but I stopped telling people I’m spiritual. I really am not interested in ghost stories, gods and angels at all.

I reject any argument based on something supposedly being natural. Who draws the line? And nature is a bitch anyway.