spiritualizing

Infusing with soul

Spiritualizing is giving something a spiritual or religious interpretation, or treating material matters as having deeper metaphysical significance.

Someone spiritualizing a mundane experience finds sacred meaning in it: She had a way of spiritualizing everyday tasks like cooking and cleaning.

The term can carry skepticism—suggesting someone is imposing religious significance where none exists.

enlightenment

awakening

Return to consciousness

epiphany · awareness · consciousness · wisdom · understanding · gnosis · bodhi · satori · self-realization · liberation

devotion

prayer

Address to deity

piety · faith · adoration · devotional · liturgy · sacred · divine · altar · ritual · meditation

elevation

uplifting

Emotionally encouraging

sublimation · transcending · exalting · idealizing · transforming · cultivating · raising · heightening · glorifying · beautifying

purification

sanctification

Making someone or something sacred

atonement · redemption · purging · renewal · holiness · sacredness · fasting · penance · exorcism · baptism

metaphysical

esoteric

Accessible to few

pantheism · cosmology · hermeticism · kabbalah · vedanta · chakras · aura · ethereal · otherworldly · ineffable

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Opposites
spiritual vs. material interpretation

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Becoming real or visible

physicalizing · secularizing · literalizing · embodying · substantiating

abstract vs. concrete rendering

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Treating figures as facts

concretizing · particularizing · specifying · instantiating · operationalizing

sacred vs. secular orientation

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Removing sacred character

profaning · demystifying · disenchanting · desanctifying · naturalizing

Family

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