Summary
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 edit
Eastern edit
Esotericism and mysticism edit
Shabda edit
Other topics edit
Philosophy and religion edit
Paths edit
Inner path edit
"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 edit
Magic and occult edit
Martial arts edit
New Age edit
People edit
Spiritual and occult practices edit
Concentration edit
Divination edit
- Astrology
- Augur
- Cartomancy
- Cleromancy
- Divination
- Dowsing
- Fortune-telling
- Geomancy
- Haruspex
- I Ching
- Omen
- Tarot reading
Other edit
Western edit
Religion, esotericism, and mysticism edit
- Anthroposophy
- Christian mysticism
- Christian mystics
- Esotericism
- Hermeticism
- List of occultists
- Mysticism
- Salvation
- Spiritualism
- Western mystery tradition
Organizations edit
- AMORC
- FUDOFSI
- FUDOSI
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Illuminates of Thanateros
- Knights Templar
- Ordo Templi Orientis
- Subud
- List of general fraternities
People edit
- Constant Chevillon
- Dion Fortune
- Max Heindel
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
- Baron Carl Reichenbach
- Rudolf Steiner
- Osho
Rosicrucianism edit
- 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 edit
- Alchemy
- Faith healing
- Servants of the Light
Neopaganism edit
Christianity edit
Esoteric Christianity edit
Egyptian mythology edit
Islam edit
Sufism edit
- Dhikr
- Lataif-e-Sitta
- Muraqaba
- Qawwali
- Sama
- Sufi cosmology
- Sufi texts
- Sufi whirling
Judaism edit
- Kabbalah (also spelled Qabalah, QBLH)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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
External links edit
- Spiritual Awakening
- Spirituality Guide