Originally Posted by paulmh
The metaphysical part is about how wo/man has tried to relate to (and engage with) the unknown. That encompasses all of the religious traditions as well as the humanities.
Hey there Paul,
Secular spirituality, I thought, purports to encompass
spiritual principles
as opposed to the trappings of all religious traditions - which truly sounds impossible for a single field of study to do! (lol)
There's a metaphysical part to "secular Spirituality" and a cultural part, isn't there?
Metaphysics today has as much to do with quantum theory as spirituality. "Meta" in Latin means
beyond, so one could propound that its simplest definition is
beyond physics. However, a more comprehensive current definition acknowledges it quite literally as a branch of philosophy exploring the nature of reality and some really weird new science (black holes, particle physics, etc.)
Metaphysics is sorta like... the new physics.
*shrug*
I just still see "secular spirituality" as a contrived term synonymous with secular humanism.
Being so new to that term, however, I could be wrong.
To invert Billy Joel:
I may be right for all I know - but I may be wrong. 
-TCD-