Outline of spirituality

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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to spirituality

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality:

Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality,[1][need quotation to verify] 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][need quotation to verify]

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

Esotericism and mysticism

Other topics

Philosophy and religion

Paths

Inner path

"Inner path", as a spiritual or religious concept, is referred to in:

Left-hand path

Magic and occult

Martial arts

New Age

People

Spiritual and occult practices

Concentration

Divination

Other

Western

Religion, esotericism, and mysticism

Organizations

  • AMORC
  • FUDOFSI
  • FUDOSI
  • Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Illuminates of Thanateros
  • Knights Templar
  • Ordo Templi Orientis
  • Subud
  • List of general fraternities

People

Rosicrucianism

Occultism and practical mysticism

Neopaganism

Christianity

Esoteric Christianity

Egyptian mythology

Islam

Sufism

Judaism

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992.
  2. ↑ Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2
  3. ↑ Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii

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