According to award-winning professor John Vervaeke, spirituality relates to the spirit. It is something that accompanies the scientific worldview by providing what it cannot: attention, agency, connection, to tether us to this world in ways that we cannot see or explain.

In the opening week of Contemporary Spirituality, he explains how what we believe in and seek meaning from is continuously evolving, and asks questions about the power and purpose of belief and meaning in this time. In this clip, he introduces the idea of religiō, ritual, mythos, and connection, relating all these to the modern person's seeking of spirituality. Why do we want to be spiritual? Why are people turning to spirituality now?