Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Journal article
Version: Latest archived (Apr 2026)
This paper develops the spiritual and ontological implications of Structural Intelligence without reducing spirituality to sentiment, belief, or symbolic language alone. Its central claim is that spirituality becomes structurally real only where contact with being remains answerable under pressure, contradiction, and lived consequence. The paper argues that the soul should not be treated as a decorative abstraction, but as a way of naming the depth at which a being remains in living relation to truth, burden, and the wider field from which local forms arise. Spirituality, in this framework, is not escape from structure. It is deeper contact with what structure is trying to organize. This allows a distinction between genuine contact and spiritualized coherence, between living depth and performance, and between real inwardness and defended image. The paper brings together being, contact, field, inwardness, and answerability into a more exact structural language for what is often discussed vaguely under the names of soul, spirit, or transcendence.
soul; spirituality; being; contact; Structural Intelligence; inwardness; field; answerability; depth; ontology; transcendence; coherence