Outline of spirituality
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality:
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Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality,[1] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."[2]
Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.[3]
Introductory topics
Eastern
Shabda
Other topics
Magic and occult
Martial arts
Spiritual and occult practices
Concentration
Divination
Western
Religion, esotericism, and mysticism
Organizations
People
Occultism and practical mysticism
- Alchemy
- Faith healing
- Servants of the Light
Neopaganism
Sufism
- Dhikr
- Lataif-e-Sitta
- Muraqaba
- Qawwali
- Sama
- Sufi cosmology
- Sufi texts
- Sufi whirling
References
- Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992.
- Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2
- Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii
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