* Spiritual transformation, a psychological and New-Age concept

A Spiritual Emergency may cause significant disruption in psychological, social and occupational functioning.

* Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care has as its purpose advancing the discussion of the theory and practice of Christian formation and soul care for the sake of the educational ministries of the church, Christian education, and other para-church organizations through scholarly publications that are rooted in Biblical exegesis, systematic theology, the history of Christian spirituality, philosophical analysis, psychological theory / research, spiritual theology, and Christian experience.

Molokans ( Russian for " milk-drinkers ": молокане ) are sectarian Christians who evolved from " Spiritual Christian " Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church.

* Publication of Martin Noth's groundbreaking Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament der Konigsberger Gelehrten Gesellschaft: Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse ; 18, 2 ( trans: " Writings of the Konigsberger Scholarly Society: Spiritual Scientific Class No. 18. 2 "): ( Halle an der Saale ": M. Niemeyer, 1943 )

* The Spanish had Ignatius Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises were designed to open people to a receptive mode of consciousness in which they can experience God through careful spiritual direction and through understanding how the mind connects to the will and how to weather the experiences of spiritual consolation and desolation ; Teresa of Avila, who used the metaphors of watering a garden and walking through the rooms of a castle to explain how meditation leads to union with God ; and John of the Cross, who used a wide range of biblical and spiritual influences both to rewrite the traditional " three ways " of mysticism after the manner of bridal mysticism and to present the two " dark nights ": the dark night of the senses and the dark night of the soul, during which the individual renounces everything that might become an obstacle between the soul and God and then experiences the pain of feeling separated from God, unable to carry on normal spiritual exercises, as it encounters the enormous gap between its human nature and God's divine wisdom and light and moves up the 10-step ladder of ascent towards God.

* Criticism of the modern world and of " neospiritualism ": East and West, The Crisis of the Modern World, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power, Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion, The Spiritist Fallacy and The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times, the latter book being often considered as his masterpiece as an explanation of the modern world from the traditional perspective.

* Robert R. Brown, 9th Bishop of Arkansas, author of " And One Was a Soldier ": The Spiritual Prilgrimage of Robert E. Lee ( 1998 ).

*" Historiography in Germany Today " from Observations on " The Spiritual Situation of the Age ": Contemporary German Perspectives, edited by Jürgen Habermas, 1984.

Each day at 1pm Eastern Time the Daily Prayer for Peace is held at the Community of Christ Spiritual Formation Center portion of the Kirtland Temple Complex.

Each year the university hosts the Spiritual Enrichment Conference.

Each day at 1pm in the Spiritual Formation Center the Daily Prayer for Peace is held based on the Daily Prayer for Peace at the Independence Temple.

Each level of the Legion of Mary has the same officers: The President, the Vice President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Spiritual director.

* The Wisdom of Each Other: A Conversation Between Spiritual Friends ( Zondervan, 2001 )

In addition to the Anglican and Pentecostal traditions, Rastafarian music has spread to the island in more recent years, along with African American musical forms, especially gospel, and the Spiritual Baptist religion, which derives from the Trinidadian Shango cult that spread to Barbados in the 1960s.

Crowley had founded a religion known as Thelema based upon a Spiritual experience that he had in Egypt in 1904, in which he claimed a being known as Aiwass had contacted him and recited to him The Book of the Law.

Anyone can become a member, without regard to nationality, social standing, religion, scientific or artistic conviction, who considers as justified the existence of an institution such as the Goetheanum in Dornach, in its capacity as a School of Spiritual Science.

The Spiritual Baptist ( or Shouter Baptist ) faith is a syncretic Afro-American religion which combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity.

The Universal House of Justice has added that among the responsibilities of Local Spiritual Assemblies are to be “ channels of divine guidance, planners of the teaching work, developers of human resources, builders of communities, and loving shepherds of the multitudes .” On a practical level, they organize local Bahá ' í communities by maintaining a local Bahá ' í Fund, owning the local Bahá ' í center ( if one exists ), organizing Bahá ' í events, counseling Bahá ' ís about personal difficulties, assisting with Bahá ' í marriages and funerals, providing educational programs to adults and children, publicizing the Bahá ' í Faith locally, fostering projects for the social and economic development of the region, and enrolling new members of the religion.

Unlike the members of the elected institutions and other appointed institutions in the Bahá ' í Faith, who serve in those offices, these are considered to have demonstrated sincerity and praiseworthy morals and qualities and achieved a distinguished rank in service to the religion and an overall station above a National Spiritual Assembly.

During Shoghi Effendi's time as leader of the religion there was a great increase in the number of Baha ' is, and he presided over the election of many National Spiritual Assemblies.

Therefore " Computer Supported Spiritual Development " ( CSSD ) is more generally accepted both in the worlds of traditional religion and non-traditional spiritual paths.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.

Spiritual life is incorporated in matter, when it is given artistic form.

In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries ( Spiritual Lights ) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

This is expressly denied by Covenant Theologians who claim the existence of a relationship via “ Spiritual Israel .” A dispensationalist would claim that none of the prophecies pertaining to Israel are or will be fulfilled in or by the New Testament Church.

Spiritual deism is the religious and philosophical belief in one indefinable, omnipresent god who is the cause or the substance ( or both ) of the universe.

Spiritual deism is extremely general and is not bound by any ideology other than the belief in one indefinable god whose spiritual presence can be felt in nature.

* Some deists, usually referred to as Spiritual Deists, practice meditation and make frequent use of Affirmative Prayer, a non-supplicative form of prayer which is common in the New Thought movement.

Spiritual practice ( sadhana ) is performed with the faith that knowledge beyond the mind and sense perception will be revealed to the practitioner.

It is referred to within Victoria as the " Spiritual Home of Australian Sport ".

In February 2007, Ptolemaic Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity is Near, The Age of Spiritual Machines and Fantastic Voyage including the rights to Kurzweil's life and ideas for the film Transcendent Man.

Spiritual training is to support what Steiner considered the overall purpose of human evolution, the development of the mutually interdependent qualities of love and freedom.

The body is elected every five years during a convention of the members of the various National or Regional Spiritual Assemblies ( NSAs ) across the world.

The Universal House of Justice is supported by the elected national and local governing bodies of the Bahá ' í Faith, ( the National Spiritual Assemblies and Local Spiritual Assemblies respectively ).

* March 20 – In the German town Memmingen the pamphlet The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed is published, the first human rights related document written in Europe.

The Spiritual Canticle is an eclogue in which the bride ( representing the soul ) searches for the bridegroom ( representing Jesus Christ ), and is anxious at having lost him ; both are filled with joy upon reuniting.

Spiritual growth in Tenrikyo is also viewed as a step-by-step process by which you can walk your own path at your own pace.

Spiritual elevation is achieved through the elimination of negative karma and the accumulation of virtue.