I would like to share to you my own personal religion. I have a hedonistic view on spirituality. Hedonism is a philosophy which states that pleasure (the positive emotions) are the only good things in life and that displeasure (the negative emotions) are the only bad things in life. So, this philosophy says that it can only be us having fun, being happy, and enjoying our lives through our positive emotions that makes our lives something beautiful, joyful, and worth living for.

But, what if you were to combine hedonism with spirituality? It would be my worldview which I would call Spiritual Hedonism or New Age Hedonism. According to this worldview/religion, positive emotions are the holy or divine inner light. Without it, then we can only be empty vessels or beings of darkness and negativity through our negative emotions. Having no emotions renders us as the empty vessels while having negative emotions such as hate, despair, and misery fill us with inner darkness/negativity.

Having the holy inner light (positive emotions) allows us to perceive things, moments, people, and situations in our lives as something good, beautiful, positive, and worth living for. Having the inner darkness (negative emotions) allows us to perceive things, moments, people, and situations in our lives as something horrible, disgusting, negative, tragic, morbid, disturbing, etc. In other words, emotions are the perception of value. They are states of mind where we perceive value.

We cannot perceive any value in our lives independent of our emotions and you would have to be delusional and in denial to believe otherwise. In other words, our intellect, morality, and character alone does not allow us to perceive/experience value. Without our emotions, then we could only have ideas, beliefs, and thoughts of value in our minds. But we wouldn't be able to actually perceive that value. Now, our brains would be receivers that pick up on divine spiritual energy in this universe. This energy engulfs our being which puts us into a divine mental state known as a positive emotional state.

But if this reception were to be blocked off due to brain damage or some mental illness such as clinical depression which prevents you from feeling positive emotions, then you would have nothing positive in your life. Your life would be nothing good or beautiful for the time being until you regain those positive emotions back to you again. It's sad because positive emotions are very fleeting things and they are the only things that can make our lives something beautiful and positive.

So, the next time you feel a positive emotion such as a feeling of excitement to go to the carnival, sexual arousal, or a feeling of profound beauty and joy, do not ignore and dismiss that emotion as being nothing more than just a feeling. It is something far more than that. It is everything to your human existence. It is the perception of beauty and joy in your life which makes your whole entire reality something beautiful and joyful.

I would describe positive emotions as being divine, holy, magnificent, and transcending states. They transcend you into the heavens, so to speak, and they make you and your life something awesome. But I would describe the negative emotions as being descending states. They lower you down into the realm of darkness and negativity since they can make you feel disgust about yourself and they can make you feel morbid and miserable.