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What is Spirituality? In a recent article by Aryeh Lazar (2009), he asked "what is spirituality?" He concluded that "there is little agreement in the literature as to what spirituality actually is. However, almost all researchers appear to agree that spirituality is a multi-dimensional construct" (p. 4). Mark A. Schroll: Before we begin our inquiry into the question, what is spirituality, let me hark back to the Editor's Introduction to this section, in which I expressed support for the work of: Kaisa Puhakka's antidote to the postmodern malaise of experiential deconstruction (Puhakka, 2008, p. 12), and Jorge N. Ferrer's participatory turn toward "coevolutionary perspectives" that embody "pluralistic approaches to spirituality" (Ferrer, 2009, p. 142) to help assist in recognizing the "web of life as primary" (Puhakka, 2008, p. 16). Puhakka and Ferrer's papers do not explore the concept of ecosophies of communication and ecology of mind based on the legacy of Arne Naess and Gregory Bateson (Bateson, 2010; Drengson, Devall & Schroll, 2011); Bateson and Naess were both addressing these concerns. Ecosophies (the wisdom of place and the person's unique relationship to it) and ecology of mind (modes