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For almost any attribute, if you have nobody at all in your community like that, it would probably be worthwhile to expand your community to include such people.

It's all too easy for "engineers and science minded folks" to become a rather insular community, if you're not careful.

> nobody in my 'community' is deeply spiritual, really spiritual at all.

Ooo, er, ... "You're gonna have a bad time."

> I do not believe in a god in any traditional sense

Excellent place to start from: less to unlearn.

> I am stuck wondering what exactly I can be 'spiritual' of?

Try five different things. For example: attend a church service; take a meditation class (Buddhist or otherwise); spend the weekend in the woods; volunteer at a hospital (reading to terminal patients maybe?); etc...

The idea is to gather information. Listen to your heart (literally.)

Buddhists (with misnomer exceptions) don't believe in God. Hinduism makes room for atheists, too. So being a meditation-fiend is open to you.