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Spiritual instincts

Spiritual instincts connect our individual existence to a wider sense of self. This starts with our family and can expand to include our local community, our country, all of humanity, other species, all of life and ultimately the creative process itself. How we see ourselves is largely a matter of conscious choice. We are of course individuals with an individual destiny. But we are also part of a creative process. Our genes and our instincts are very much a product of and designed to support that creative process. Excessive focus on our individual existence does violence to this deeper sense of self. The development of a deeper sense of self is a subject of Chapter .