"Breath is not spiritual," some guy said.

I got feedback on one of my posts on a different site. The commenter said he didn't agree with my fundamental viewpoint that "Breath is Spirit." He said "Breath is not spiritual. Breath is nothing special. It is just oxygen and that is all there is to it. It just is. Move on."

Hard core scientific materialism blinds us to the breath.

Most people are completely stuck in the idea that breath is only about the transfer of oxygen and CO2.... and that is ALL breath is about. Scientific Materialism posits that only atoms exist. We live in this cold, unthinking universe and these egos are illusory, passive victims of molecules bumping into each other. There is no purpose or meaning to life. It is just atoms. Scientific materialism is a grim philosophy. Everything else, like beauty, music and enjoyment is not really real. The things we care about most in our day to day experience do not really matter. Our awareness, our experience do not matter as they are deluded fictions and have no validity.

"How do you get consciousness out of six pounds of neurons?" This is called the "Hard Question" in neuroscience that doesn't have an answer in materialistic Newtonian terms. Either consciousness is relegated to a “ghost like delusion” or “consciousness becomes everything” like (the yogis,) some quantum physicists and the “Biocentrists” like Robert Lanza claim. Follow this link for great stuff: (https://www.robertlanza.com)

The quality of our awareness is tied to the breath. This becomes so apparent when you are committed to everyday early morning breath practice.

The Ancient Greeks, Romans, Christians, Jews, Taoists, Buddhists, Jains, Native Americans, Egyptians and many other wisdom traditions, and the Yogis have claimed that Breath is Spirit. Our Breath is connected to Spirit. Jesus Christ mysteriously blew the Holy Spirit into his disciples. Our innermost essence, who we think we are, is tied to the breath. Our moment to moment experience is tied to the breath. That is what really matters to us.

If you want to change your moment to moment experience, change your breath.

The flow of energy, praana, chi through our bodies, is flowing with the flow of breath. The moment to moment miracle of breath and its relationship to being conscious is left out of scientific materialism. 

We get to chose what paradigm we live in. We either examine our thoughts and beliefs and how we came to these conclusions, or we don't and we accept what was given to us.