Esoteric Philosophy-Deeper Teachings in Spiritual Science

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Here's how restrictions apply. Library of Hidden Knowledge Paperback: Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 9 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Her writings lead one away from judgementalism and separation towards seeing the Unity of All Creation. This book is a great addition to anyone teaching classes on Emma's teaching.

Ruth Miller does an excellent job clarifying her work. The author is centered in truth. She and I are of one mind. She communicate from beyond the plane of duality. One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Excellent book, I am using as a talk series at my Unity church. I love the way Emma explores and explains Truth.

Outstanding primer to spiritual science. This book makes clearer for me some of the confusing 19th language of Ms. I'm still reading and digesting the information here, but I have already begun to put some of the suggestions to work. I expect it to be helpful in making the changes necessary to growing into a greater expression of the One Mind.

Overall pretty good but, I returned it. New Age in a restricted sense, which originated primarily in mid-twentieth century England and had its roots in Theosophy and Anthroposophy , and "New Age" in a general sense, which emerged in the later s. Those who speak of spirituality outside of religion often define themselves as spiritual but not religious and generally believe in the existence of different "spiritual paths," emphasizing the importance of finding one's own individual path to spirituality.

Modern spirituality is centered on the "deepest values and meanings by which people live. Not all modern notions of spirituality embrace transcendental ideas. Secular spirituality emphasizes humanistic ideas on moral character qualities such as love, compassion , patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, responsibility, harmony, and a concern for others. Nevertheless, many humanists e. Bertrand Russell , Jean-Paul Sartre who clearly value the non-material, communal and virtuous aspects of life reject this usage of the term spirituality as being overly-broad i.

Although personal well-being, both physical and psychological , is said to be an important aspect of modern spirituality, this does not imply spirituality is essential to achieving happiness e. Contemporary spirituality theorists assert that spirituality develops inner peace and forms a foundation for happiness. Yet such spiritually-informed treatment approaches have been challenged as pseudoscience , are far from uniformly curative and may for non-believers cause harm see iatrogenesis.

James' notions of "spiritual experience" had a further influence on the modernist streams in Asian traditions, making them even further recognisable for a western audience. William James popularized the use of the term "religious experience" in his The Varieties of Religious Experience. Wayne Proudfoot traces the roots of the notion of "religious experience" further back to the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher — , who argued that religion is based on a feeling of the infinite. The notion of "religious experience" was used by Schleiermacher to defend religion against the growing scientific and secular critique.

It was adopted by many scholars of religion, of which William James was the most influential. Major Asian influences were Vivekananda [] and D. Suzuki had a major influence on the popularisation of Zen in the west and popularized the idea of enlightenment as insight into a timeless, transcendent reality.

Spiritual experiences can include being connected to a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self ; joining with other individuals or the human community ; with nature or the cosmos ; or with the divine realm. Waaijman discerns four forms of spiritual practices: Spiritual practices may include meditation , mindfulness , prayer , the contemplation of sacred texts , ethical development, [] and spiritual retreats in a convent.

Within spirituality is also found "a common emphasis on the value of thoughtfulness, tolerance for breadth and practices and beliefs, and appreciation for the insights of other religious communities, as well as other sources of authority within the social sciences.

Historian John Hedley Brooke describes wide variations:. The natural sciences have been invested with religious meaning, with antireligious implications and, in many contexts, with no religious significance at all. Brooke has proposed that the currently held popular notion of antagonisms between science and religion [] [] has historically originated with "thinkers with a social or political axe to grind" rather than with the natural philosophers themselves. A few [ quantify ] religious leaders have shown openness to modern science and its methods.

The 14th Dalai Lama , for example, has proposed that if a scientific analysis conclusively showed certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then the claims must be abandoned and the findings of science accepted. During the twentieth century the relationship between science and spirituality has been influenced both by Freudian psychology, which has accentuated the boundaries between the two areas by accentuating individualism and secularism, and by developments in particle physics , which reopened the debate about complementarity between scientific and religious discourse and rekindled for many an interest in holistic conceptions of reality.

Various studies most originating from North America have reported a positive correlation between spirituality and mental well-being in both healthy people and those encountering a range of physical illnesses or psychological disorders. Both supporters and opponents of this claim agree that past statistical findings are difficult to interpret, in large part because of the ongoing disagreement over how spirituality should be defined and measured.

There is also some suggestion that the benefits associated with spirituality and religiosity might arise from being a member of a close-knit community. Social bonds available via secular sources i. In sum, spirituality may not be the "active ingredient" i. Masters and Spielmans [] conducted a meta-analysis of all the available and reputable research examining the effects of distant intercessory prayer. They found no discernible health effects from being prayed for by others.

In fact, one large and scientifically rigorous study by Herbert Benson and colleagues [] revealed that intercessory prayer had no effect on recovery from cardiac arrest, but patients told people were praying for them actually had an increased risk of medical complications. Knowing others are praying for you could actually be medically detrimental. In the health-care professions there is growing [ quantify ] interest in "spiritual care", to complement the medical-technical approaches and to improve the outcomes of medical treatments.

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Neuroscientists have examined brain functioning during reported spiritual experiences [] [] finding that certain neurotransmitters and specific areas of the brain are involved. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the belief in being able to contact the dead, see Spiritualism.

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Catholic spirituality and Christian mysticism. Five Pillars of Islam. Three of four paths of spirituality in Hinduism. Conflict thesis and Relationship between religion and science. Spiritual care in health care professions. Spirituality portal Religion portal. Different translations are possible: Some Islamic scholars dispute the authenticity of this reference and consider the meaning of jihad as a holy war to be more important.

In most general terms, the Sanskrit word yoga stands for spiritual discipline in Hinduism, Jainism, and certain schools of Buddhism. A spiritual practitioner is known as a yogin if male or a yogini if female. Cultivating disciplined practices of being engaged by god," in L. Gregory Jones and James J. Blackwell, , 3—28 [4, n. The Making of American Spirituality. McDermott, , in ReVision, vol. The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity. Cited in Anthony Giddens: Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

The Vital Interplay between Submission and Freedom". Retrieved 4 January The Art and Science of Sufi Meditation". The first dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD — See Google book search. Retrieved 20 February Archived from the original on One may be polytheistic or monotheistic, monistic or pantheistic, even an agnostic, humanist or atheist, and still be considered a Hindu. VB Kher, Navajivan Publishing, see p.

Journal of Managerial Psychology. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. The Purana suggests that "true knowledge of nature" leads to "true knowledge of Self and God. For example, earth teaches steadfastness and the wisdom that all things while pursuing their own activities, do nothing but follow the divine laws that are universally established; another wisdom from earth is her example of accepting the good and bad from everyone.

Another guru, the honeybee teaches that one must make effort to gain knowledge, a willingness and flexibility to examine, pick and collect essence from different scriptures and sources.

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