Outline of spirituality

Overview of and topical guide to spirituality

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Spirituality
Outline

Religion

* History
* Timeline

Traditional

* Elite religion
* Jewish
* Merkabah
* Kabbalah
* Hasidism
* Christian
* Catholic
* Mysticism
* Sufism
* Folk religion

Modern

* Buddhist modernism
* New religious movement
* Secular spirituality
* "Spiritual but not religious"
* Syncretism

Spiritual experience

* Lived religion
* Mystical experience
* Oceanic feeling
* Religious experience
* Religious ecstasy
* Spiritual practice

Spiritual development

* Divine embodiment
* Ego death
* Individuation
* Self-actualization
* Spiritual activism

Influences

Western

General

* Divine illumination
* Pantheism
* Panentheism

Antiquity

* Divinity
* Gnosticism
* Hermeticism
* Neoplatonism
* Western esotericism

Medieval

* Mysticism

Early modern

* Perennial philosophy
* Jakob Böhme
* Emanuel Swedenborg
* Pietism

Modern

* Romanticism
* Transcendentalism
* Universalism
* New Thought
* Theosophy
* Anthroposophy
* Occultism
* Spiritualism
* Esoteric Christianity
* New Age

Orientalist

* Comparative religion
* Neo-Advaita
* Nonduality
* Orientalism
* Theosophical Society

Asian

Pre-historic

* Proto-Indo-Iranian religion

Iran

* Zoroastrianism

India

* Advaita Vedanta
* Buddha-nature
* Enlightenment
* Kevala jnana
* Madhyamaka
* Moksha
* Neo-Vedanta
* Tantra
* Yoga
* Yogachara

East-Asia

* Taoism

Other non-Western

* Animism
* Shamanism
* Totemism

Psychological

* Humanistic psychology
* Mindfulness
* Positive psychology
* Self-help
* Self-realization
* True self and false self

Research

Neurological

* Mystical psychosis
* Cognitive science of religion
* Neuroscience of religion
* Geschwind syndrome
* Evolutionary psychology of religion

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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 their own 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

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* Paranormal
* Extra-sensory perception
* Near-death experience
* Parapsychology (Paraphysics)
* Anomalous cognition
* Claims of parapsychology
* History of parapsychology
* Precognition
* Psychokinesis
* Remote viewing
* Uri Geller
* Philosophy
* Epistemology
* Ethics
* Free will
* Idealism
* Materialism
* Metaphysics
* Mechanism
* Mind-body dualism
* Mind-body problem
* Nondualism
* Noumenon
* Phenomenalism
* Phenomenon
* Philosophy of mind
* Philosophy of religion
* Philosophy of science
* Reductionism
* Spiritualism
* Skepticism
* Truth
* Vitalism
* Religion
* Agnosticism
* Animism
* Atheism
* Cult
* Faith
* Gnosticism
* God
* Goddess
* Higher consciousness
* Monotheism
* Mythology
* Neo-Pantheism
* New religious movement
* Pantheism
* Polytheism
* Prayer
* Religious naturalism
* Soul
* Spiritism
* Spiritual being
* Science
* Altered state of consciousness
* Brain
* Chaos theory
* Chemistry
* Cognitive psychology
* Consciousness
* Magical thinking
* Neuropsychology
* Odic force
* Paraphysics
* Parapsychology
* Physics
* Pseudoscience
* Psychiatry
* Psychology
* Quantum mechanics
* Superstition
* Unconscious mind
* Spirituality
* Esotericism
* Ietsism
* Karma
* Meditation
* Merkabah
* Mysticism
* New Age
* Occultism
* Reincarnation
* Subtle body

## Eastern

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### Esotericism and mysticism

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#### Shabda

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* Eckankar
* Harold Klemp
* Quan Yin Method
* Suma Ching Hai
* Sant Mat
* Baba Sawan Singh
* Radha Soami Satsang Beas
* Sant Baljit Singh
* Sant Kirpal Singh
* Sant Thakar Singh
* Shiv Dayal Singh
* Surat Shabda Yoga
* Techniques of Knowledge
* Prem Rawat

#### Other topics

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* Chakra
* Ajna / Mind's eye / Third eye
* Anahata
* Bindu
* Manipura
* Muladhara
* Sahasrara
* Subud, or Susila Budhi Dharma
* Swadhisthana
* Vishuddha
* Kundalini energy
* Planes of existence
* Tantra
* The Urantia Book
* Yoga

### Philosophy and religion

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* Buddhism
* Mahayana Buddhism
* Theravada
* Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism)
* Zen
* Hinduism
* Bhakti yoga
* Jnana Yoga
* Karma yoga
* List of sutras
* Śruti
* Smriti
* Tantra
* Upanishads
* Vedanta
* Yoga
* I Ching
* Sikhism
* The Sikh Gurus
* Guru Granth Sahib
* Sikh religious philosophy
* List of Sikhism-related topics
* Taoism
* Lao Zi
* Dao De Jing
* Taiji
* Universal Dialectic
* Yin Yang
* The Urantia Book

## Paths

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### Inner path

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

* Spiritual paths
* Involution (Meher Baba)
* Eckankar
* Salik
* Burhaniya
* Gilgul
* Nizari
* Sulook
* Involution (esoterism)
* Ordre Reaux Croix
* Universal Life
* Surat Shabd Yoga or Sant Mat

### Left-hand path

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* Left-hand path and right-hand path
* Black art
* Black magic
* Necromancy
* Satanism
* Baphomet
* Church of Satan
* Luciferianism
* Philosophical Satanism
* Satan
* Satanic panic
* Satanic ritual abuse
* Anton LaVey
* Vampire
* Temple of Set

## Magic and occult

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* Aleister Crowley
* The Book of Thoth
* Magick
* Chaos magic
* Eliphas Levi
* Enochian magic
* Goetia
* Grimoire
* Necronomicon
* Hoodoo
* Magic
* Occultism
* Pentagram
* Quareia
* Ritual magic
* Santería
* Seid
* Thelema
* Vodou

## Martial arts

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* Martial arts
* List of martial arts
* List of martial arts weapons
* Neijia
* Baguazhang
* Xingyiquan
* Tai chi

## New Age

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* Age of Aquarius
* New Age
* List of New Age topics
* Qigong

## People

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* Helena Blavatsky
* Edgar Cayce
* Evelyn Underhill
* G. I. Gurdjieff
* Rudolf Steiner
* Ken Wilber
* Giuliano Kremmerz

## Spiritual and occult practices

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### Concentration

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* Astral projection
* Dhikr
* Meditation
* Muraqaba
* Prayer
* Remote viewing
* Yoga

### Divination

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* Astrology
* Augur
* Cartomancy
* Cleromancy
* Divination
* Dowsing
* Pendulum
* Fortune-telling
* Geomancy
* Haruspex
* I Ching
* Omen
* Tarot reading

### Other

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* Lucid dream
* Out-of-body experience

## Western

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### Religion, esotericism, and mysticism

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* Anthroposophy
* Christian mysticism
* Christian mystics
* Esotericism
* Hermeticism
* List of occultists
* Mysticism
* Salvation
* Spiritualism
* Western mystery tradition

#### Organizations

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

#### People

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* Constant Chevillon
* Dion Fortune
* Max Heindel
* Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
* Baron Carl Reichenbach
* Rudolf Steiner
* Osho

#### Rosicrucianism

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* Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC)
* Builders of the Adytum (BOTA)
* Fraternitas Rosae Crucis
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Ordo Templi Orientis
* Rosicrucian Fellowship
* Scottish Rite Freemasonry
* Societas Rosicruciana

### Occultism and practical mysticism

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* Alchemy
* Faith healing
* Servants of the Light

#### Neopaganism

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* Neopaganism
* Paganism
* Rule of Three (Wiccan)
* Wicca

#### Christianity

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* Catholicism
* Christian mysticism
* Christian Science
* Mount Athos
* Orthodoxy

##### Esoteric Christianity

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* Anthroposophy
* Christian vegetarianism
* Theosis
* Hesychasm
* Gregory Palamas
* Philokalia

#### Egyptian mythology

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#### Islam

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##### Sufism

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* Dhikr
* Lataif-e-Sitta
* Muraqaba
* Qawwali
* Sama
* Sufi cosmology
* Sufi texts
* Sufi whirling

#### Judaism

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* Kabbalah (also spelled Qabalah, QBLH)

## See also

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* Involution
* List of occult terms
* Outline of religion
* Synchronicity

## References

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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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