Spiritual practice (Psycho-spiritually dynamic) and not just religious act

"Spiritual exercises (bowing, reciting and repentance)... a field of ground of training, it is not a field of faith, not a field of just devotion; it's a training ground, you are training... These spiritual exercises have been handed down over many generation and for some reason you don't have to know why, they have a psycho-dynamic or psych-spiritual-dynamic effect and that they catalyse and change things that are in a very deep level that aren't just accessible to conscious thought. Who know how this work? It is not magic, don't mystify it in that way. It is actually catalysing some capacity inside through these things, not with conscious discurse* of intellect but with something else which is moved or brought out in the function of, say bowing or reciting. That is just how it is. And it is presented not as mystical other device out of (our) powers. But actually developing, cultivating inherit capacity in one self... There are meditation comtemplation use when you are bowing that have an effect cleansing the mind and the heart, of bring this stuff up. It is very quite interesting in how it works but don't see it as religious but see it as psycho-spiritually dynamic. And even the chanting and the images in the Sutra text, not the content per say, but the imagery that is in there can also have an effect in the act of consciousness to shift, to adjust, to purify." ~ Dr Martin Verhoeven