For Isa, spirituality is having a relationship with an outside reality and embracing what she sees as this truer nature of reality in order to open a new realm of tradition that taps into an individual’s own interior. Religion she understands as a practice that takes the place of that interior work. Spirituality is a process. Religion is a discipline. Religion is memorizing your multiplication tables; spirituality is learning why the multiplication tables work—knowing not just that seven times seven is forty-nine but knowing why.
