Religion and Spirituality - are they the same? Is religion damaging or healthy?

Steve and Serge discuss religion and spirituality, how religious people can be both spiritual and non-spiritual, and how religion can express both the best and worst in human nature. Religion is about supporting and strengthening the ego, while spirituality is about transcending it. Indigenous peoples' worldviews were essentially non-religious, and theistic worldviews developed at a fairly late stage in human history. Can religion help to heal the world, or do human beings need to transcend religion?