Description of Secular Spirituality with an Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's Discourse: A Psycho- biographical Study

Spirituality according to the meaning of world events, the hidden goodness in the sufferings of life, increases resilience and adaptation. In religious spirituality, secure attachment to God, strengthens the relationship with self, people, nature and provides a meaning for suffering. Secular spirituality promotes the separation and marginalization of religion from the various spheres of human life. The purpose of this study is description of secular spirituality with an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's discourse, in a bio-psychographic study.

This qualitative research was conducted in 1401 with the operational method of discourse analysis, in order to create a semantic connection between the content and understanding of the discourse of secular spiritualism, by studying the reasons for the events of Nietzsche's life. The research included explanations: extra-textual discourse (cultural and historical conditions), in-context discourse (ontological perspective), communication space (anthropological perspective), textual semantic space (theorist lifestyle), and structural space.

Despite being born into a religious family, Nietzsche, by announcing the death of God and writing the Antichrist, explains a man whose jealousy and sense of inferiority are the cause of knowing the meaning of life and striving for it. Lack of secure attachment to God and people, creating feelings of insecurity, helplessness and abandonment, lack of belonging and respect, turned Nietzsche into an atheist and nihilist philosopher.

Spiritual attitude towards the world, attention to the kingdom of the universe, along with attachment to God, by strengthening the relationship with self, people and nature, relieves human suffering that is not seen in secular spirituality.