Encyclopedia - Spiritual: Encyclopedia - Spiritual
See: Spirituality Spiritual music Spiritual dance The Age of Spiritual Machines Spiritual possession The term "spiritual" can be used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Spirituality
Spirituality is, in a narrow sense, a concern with matters of the spirit, however that may be defined; but it is also a wide term with ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia - Spiritualism
Spiritualism may refer to a variety of modern religious ideologies, primarily active in the United States and Europe. Central tenets of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catholic Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Catholic Spirituality
The Spiritual life for Roman Catholics. Once a Catholic has accepted the faith (fides quae creditur) by making a personal act of faith (f...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Spirituality: Reflections On Spirituality
When I was growing up, I thought that "spirituality" was the same thing as "religion," which was something for which ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Based Leadership: Making Spirituality Explicit  
    See also: Spirituality At Work, Work As A Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Based Leadership      » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Spiritual Character Part I: Defining Your Spiritual Context  
In our 1st article on spiritual character ("The Power of Spiritual Character"), we shared with you the following equation th...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: The Power Of Spiritual Character  
In high school and college, Debra excelled in accounting and William in mathematics. So, from time to time we love to represent new id...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Retreats - A Retreat For Enlightenment
Presentation of the Spiritual Reatreats in The Golden City.   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Work: Spiritual Business  
"We are all spiritual beings first and foremost, we exist beyond our bodies'', say Debra and William Miller, an American couple w...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Spiritual Character Part Iii: Embodying Spiritual Values  
In the past few articles, we've focused on various aspects of developing spiritual character, as found in our equation:   Spirit...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Based Leadership: Building A Spiritual Foundation  
As you begin to consider the ways to foster a spiritual revolution at work through your leadership, it's natural that you will want to...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Work: Spiritual Values Are Human Values  
In February of 2000, we began writing an in-depth programme for working people which explores five human values that are found across ...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Work: William And Debra Miller  
    See also: Spirituality At Work, Work As A Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Based Leadership      » Read the article

Article - Corporate Spirituality: Corporate Spirituality Encourages Inclusion  
If you are a corporate leader and you would like to include spirituality in your organisation's culture, you are not alone.   Bus...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality At Work: From Rationality To Morality To Spirituality
In previous articles, we've shared inspiring stories of people who have found their "true calling" in their work. Another wa...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: The Spiritual Basis Of Creativity  
In the mid-1980's, while William was consulting on corporate creativity, he began to recognise a similarity in the language that peopl...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Spiritual Character Part Ii: Identifying Your Spiritual Purpose  
As we discussed in our previous articles, the first step in developing spiritual character is to identify your spiritual context, whic...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality And Relationships: Relationship As A Spiritual Pathway
Some people have the idea that if they are really interested in spiritual awakening they should no longer focus on relationships, and yet...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Putting Your Spirituality To Work  
"Spirituality at work." Seeing or hearing these words, some people feel sceptical about whether spirituality can mix with wo...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Based Leadership: Distinguishing Between Spirituality And Religion At Work  
Several years ago William spoke at a large business symposium in New Delhi on the many varied aspects of becoming a spiritual-based le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality
Dark Spirituality is a broad term used to describe the Left Hand Path religions, however small groups of people are beginning to define t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Spiritual Use: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Spiritual Use
Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. Th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Evolution: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Spiritual Evolution
spiritual evolution: Adhyatma prasara. See: adhyatma prasara, evolution of the soul. (See also: Spiritual evolution , Hinduism, Bod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agnostic Spiritualism: Encyclopedia - Agnostic Spiritualism
The view that there may or may not be a god (or gods) while maintaining a general personal belief in a spiritual aspect of reality, parti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Healing: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Healing
All Music Guide (2/5) link Rate Your Music (4/5) link Spiritual Healing is the third album released by Death in February 1990. Spirit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Exercises: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Exercises
The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, (written within 1522-1524) is a brief set of meditations, prayers and mental exercises, av...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession
Spiritual possession is a concept of many religions and tales, where it is believed that a demon, or disincarnate being, may take tempora...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creation Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Creation Spirituality
Creation Spirituality is a set of beliefs about God and humanity promoted by the theologian and Episcopal priest Matthew Fox. It is a mys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Hierarchy: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Hierarchy
Spiritual Hierarchy is a term that comes from Theosophy, also knows as the Ageless Wisdom teachings. It represents a group of self-realis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Feminist Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Feminist Spirituality
Feminist spirituality is a class of religious beliefs in which certain feminist ideas play an important role. In the latter part of the 2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Gift: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Gift
According to Christian theology, the spiritual gifts (or charismata) are gifts that were supernaturally bestowed on the early Christians,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Experience: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Experience
Carl Jung once treated an American patient suffering from chronic alcoholism. After working with the patient for some time, and achieving...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Healing: Alternative Health Dictionary On Spiritual Healing
spiritual healing: A form of channeling and energy medicine (vibrational medicine) that involves the transference (commonly through th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Four Spiritual Laws: Encyclopedia - The Four Spiritual Laws
The Four Spiritual Laws is a evangelistic Christian tract created by Bill Bright (founder of Campus Crusade for Christ) in 1956. Bright w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Spirituality - The Spiritual And The Religious
An important distinction needs to be made between spirituality in religion and spirituality as opposed to religion. In recent years, spir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Spirituality - Directed Spirituality
One aspect of 'Being spiritual' is goal-directed, with aims such as: simultaneously improve one's wisdom and willpower, achieve a closer ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Being - Spiritual Possession
In some parts of the world, spirits are believed to be able to possess humans and control their behaviour. ... See also:Spiritual bein...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Spirituality - Spirituality And Personal Well-being
Due to its broad scope and individual nature, spirituality is perhaps better understood by highlighting a number of key concepts that ari...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism A movement that began in 1848 with the ÒrapsÓ of the Fox Sisters (Kate and Margaret) in Hydesville, NY. Normally associat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Spirituality - Defining Dark Spirituality
Defining dark spirituality in the western world is difficult, because of its reliance on the individual to define their own spirituality....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Assembly: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Assembly - National Spiritual Assemblies
`Abdu'l-Bahá ordained Secondary, or National Spiritual Assemblies in his will. They are elected annually by a system of electoral delega...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lord Spiritual: Encyclopedia Ii - Lord Spiritual - The Number Of Lords Spiritual
Early in England's history, Lords Spiritual—including lesser clergymen such as abbots—outnumbered Lords Temporal. Between 1536 and 15...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Spirituality - Spiritual Goal
Survival is often considered to be the overall goal of dark spirituality. Even in the physical, the survival of the individual is conside...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Marriage: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Marriage - Spiritual Marriage In Catholicism
Spiritual marriage is a concept that has a long history in Catholicism, and is also known as a "Josephite marriage" after the marriage be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lord Spiritual: Encyclopedia Ii - Lord Spiritual - Lords Spiritual As Peers
Authorities differ on whether the Lords Spiritual are peers. Some contend that archbishops and diocesan bishops are peers during their te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - Occult Concepts Of Spiritual Evolution
Theories of Spiritual Evolution are important in many Occult and Esoteric teachings, which emphasise the progression and development of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Background
Spiritualism in its modern incarnation started in the mid-19th century in the United States, a syncretic adjunct of largely Christian pop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Meditation
Meditation is used to calm the "voices" of modern, hectic life so that the practitioner can better hear his or her guide. Meditation ofte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Music - Choral Arrangements Of The Spiritual
With the advent of Harry Burleigh (1866–1949), the spiritual began to develop into a sophisticated art form. Burleigh attended the cons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - German Idealism
The nineteenth century German philosophers inherited Kant’s overwhelmingly influential ontological framework, which had distinguished b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualize: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritualize
spiritualize To energize, activate the chakras and consciousness   (See also: Spiritualize , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Origins
Modern Spiritualism first appeared in the 1840s in the Burned-Over District of upstate New York where earlier religious movements such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Characteristic Beliefs
The central tenet of Spiritualism is the belief in and practice of mediumship which is believed to provide evidence of the continued exis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Spiritualist Church
Spiritualist churches are places of worship for the practitioners of Spiritualism. The Spiritualist service is usually conducted by a med...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritual
spiritual Having to do with the evolving soul. Distinguished from "religious" dogmas and teachings by following the prompti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism (American) Religion teaching life-after-death and spirit communication begun by Kate and Margaretta Fox in Hydesville, N...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Healing: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritual Healing
spiritual healing The art and science of working with the subtle energies, in a spiritual setting, for the purpose of improving or ha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Teacher: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritual Teacher
spiritual teacher One who shares with others what he or she has realized in order to give comfort and assurance as to goals, to mark ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Books
Several notable books describe entering a trance state to allow a dead or other-dimensional being to speak through them. It's claimed tha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Science: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritual Science
spiritual science The evolution of high consciousness as it relates to the human being, to the Universe, and all creation, as taught ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - Precursors To The Idea
Spiritual evolution - The Cyclic Cosmos. Mircea Eliade has suggested that in many pre-modern cultures one finds the concept of the Fall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - Surat Shabda Yoga
Surat Shabda Yoga cosmology depicts the whole of creation (the macrocosm) as being emanated and arranged in a spiritually differentiated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - Evolution Towards Godhead
Spiritual evolution - A Common Vision. Although contemporaries, Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin did not meet, or even seem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - New Age Ideas
New Age thought is strongly syncretic and based on a superficial but creative interpretation of previous spiritual and esoteric tradition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lord Spiritual: Encyclopedia Ii - Lord Spiritual - Ranks And Titles
The Church of England comprises 44 dioceses, which include the two archdioceses of Canterbury and York; each archdiocese is led by an Arc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Science - Historical Foundations
Even before the rise of modern science, Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics asserted the applicability of reason to the divine. They could...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Religious Views
Some religions — in particular, most Abrahamic religions — do not admit the existence of beneficial spiritual possessions; so, if the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Scientific View
Science does recognize that "possession" exists, but only in the sense that some people occasionally behave in a way that fits the expect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Exercises: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Exercises - Theological Teachings Of The Exercises
Spiritual Exercises - Some historically contextual aspects of the Exercises. The teachings conveyed via the exercises appear to reflect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Music - Historical Background
Spirituals are primarily expressions of religious faith, originated by African slaves in the United States. Slavery was introduced into t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sex Ecology Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Sex Ecology Spirituality - The Structure And Theses Of Ses
Sex Ecology Spirituality - Introduction. Wilber describes the deeply dysteleological perspective of contemporary philosophical natur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sex Ecology Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Sex Ecology Spirituality - Content
Published in 1995, SES (as it is sometimes abbreviated) is the work in which Wilber grapples with modern philosophical naturalism, attemp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Dictionary: Dictionary Of Spiritual Terms
A Dictionary of Spiritual Terms. From Acupuncture to Zoroaster.   Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Healing: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Healing
Spiritual Healing Healing by the power of a spiritual energy, operating through the body of the medium or practitioner.   (See...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism A movement that began in 1848 with the “raps” of the Fox Sisters (Kate and Margaret) in Hydesville, NY. Norma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Abuse: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual Abuse The damage or mistreatment of someone seeking spiritual or religious help or guidance. This injury can occur when some...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Hierarchy: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Hierarchy
Spiritual Hierarchy A bureaucracy of spiritual "masters", or highly evolved men who, having already perfected themselves, ar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Self: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Self
Spiritual Self Used for buddhi-manas, the spiritual monad.   (See also: Spiritual Self , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Parapsychology Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism: Religious doctrines that advocate communication between the living and the spirits of the dead using a medium as interm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Ego: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Ego
Spiritual Ego The spiritual monad, the first vehicle of the atman, divine ego, or jivatman. It expresses itself through the spiritual ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Soul: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Soul
Spiritual Soul Buddhi; in man, typically the immortal individual monad. The first vehicle of the atmic monadic ray is the spiritual eg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Therapies: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Spiritual Healing
Spiritual therapies , Spiritual healing ,  : Mystical, religious, or spiritual practices performed for health benefit.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Dictionary: Spiritual Hinduism Dictionary
A spiritual dictionary of the 280 most common words in Hinduism. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritual D...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Principles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Principles
Spiritual Principles Atma and buddhi are the two essentially spiritual principles in man; and manas is to be classed as a spiritual pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Spiritualism
SPIRITUALISM: is the belief that the spirits (or 'dead' people) can talk to us in this dimension.   (See also: SPIRITUALISM , ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Counselor/consultant: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Counselor/consultant
Spiritual Counselor/Consultant A practitioner who uses one or more spiritual and/or psychological techniques in rder to achieve holist...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Partnership Spirituality: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Partnership Spirituality
PARTNERSHIP SPIRITUALITY - cooperative male or female spirituality that preceded and surpassed historic religion and philosophy. (Rian...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirituality: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Spirituality
Spirituality: Having the nature of spirit, soul. God, sometimes religion or a higher consciousness.   (See also: Spirituality ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Plane: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Spiritual Plane
SPIRITUAL PLANE: a person's perception of life's existence, consisting of belief or lack of belief in the Divine.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism. In philosophy, the state or condition of mind opposed to materialism or a material conception of things. Theosophy, a do...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Spiritualism
Spiritualism: A religion based upon the belief in life after death and the experiences of various mediums over the last hundred years;...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Monad: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Monad
Spiritual Monad The second monadic center in the descending scale of intimately related human monadic centers; in the septenary consti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Powers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Powers
Spiritual Powers Generally used in contradistinction to psychic powers; for while psychic powers pertain to the intermediate, psychome...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritus
Spiritus (Latin) Breath, air, spirit; in medieval European alchemy it corresponds with fire and sulfur in the triad of sulfur, mercury...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Soul: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Spiritual Soul
A Theosophical definition of Spiritual Soul :   Spiritual Soul The spiritual soul is the vehicle of the individual monad, the j...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Gifts: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual Gifts The Christian doctrine that certain gifts are given by Jesus to his church. There are some that are obviously supernat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirituality: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spirituality
Spirituality Considering spirit and matter as contrasted aspects in the evolutionary process, as opposite poles in the kosmos, this wo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chela: A Spiritual Dictionary On Chela
Chela: A sanskrit word referring to a student on the spiritual path. or a spiritual aspirant in an Ashram.   (See also: Chela...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ashram: A Spiritual Dictionary On Ashram
Ashram: Hermitage, residence for saints and spiritual aspirants. A spiritual school.   (See also: Ashram , Body Mind and Soul...   » Read the article