He writes, " The first, or carnal men, will return to the grossness of matter and finally be consumed by fire ; the second, or psychic men, together with the Demiurge as their master, will enter a middle state, neither heaven ( pleroma ) nor hell ( whyle ); the purely spiritual men will be completely freed from the influence of the Demiurge and together with the Saviour and Achamoth, his spouse, will enter the pleroma divested of body ( húle ) and soul ( psuché ).

Psychologist Douglas Haldeman writes that conversion therapy comprises efforts by mental health professionals and pastoral care providers to convert lesbians and gay men to heterosexuality by techniques including aversive treatments, such as " the application of electric shock to the hands and / or genitals ," and " nausea-inducing drugs ... administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli ," masturbatory reconditioning, visualization, social skills training, psychoanalytic therapy, and spiritual interventions, such as " prayer and group support and pressure.

* July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting to prevent any possible war.

* December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

The hermit spends most of his day in the cell: he meditates, prays the minor hours of the Liturgy of the Hours on his own, eats, studies and writes ( Carthusian monks have published scholarly and spiritual works ), and works in his garden or at some manual trade.

Although he expressed concern over Li's totalizing discourse and millennial themes, Craig Burgdoff writes that such concerns are tempered by the fact that Falun Gong practice does not require unquestioning acceptance of all of Li's teachings, and there is no overt emphasis on dogmatically enforcing orthodoxy, Instead, Burgdoff writes that he found " practitioners to be engaged seriously in a highly disciplined spiritual and ethical practice.

Professor Lisa Kahaleole Hall writes that Huna " bears absolutely no resemblance to any Hawaiian worldview or spiritual practice " and calls it part of the " New Age spiritual industry.

Author Rachel Held Evans resides in Dayton and writes about the town in the spiritual memoir Evolving in Monkey Town.

In April 1844, Joseph Smith referred to polygamy as " John C. Bennett's spiritual wife system " and warned " if any man writes to you, or preaches to you, doctrines contrary to the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or the book of Doctrine and Covenants, set him down as an imposter.

* Highlighting what he sees as the difficulty in understanding the guru from Eastern tradition in Western society, Dr. Georg Feuerstein, a well-known German-American Indologist, writes in the article Understanding the Guru from his book The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and practice :" The traditional role of the guru, or spiritual teacher, is not widely understood in the West, even by those professing to practice Yoga or some other Eastern tradition entailing discipleship.

In his Encyclopedic Dictionary of Yoga ( 1990 ), Dr. Feuerstein writes that the importation of yoga to the West has raised questions as to the appropriateness of spiritual discipleship and the legitimacy of spiritual authority.

* Rob Preece, a psychotherapist and a practicing Buddhist, writes in The Noble Imperfection that while the teacher / disciple relationship can be an invaluable and fruitful experience, the process of relating to spiritual teachers also has its hazards.

The spiritual bearing in strategy, which Musashi writes about concerns your temperament and spirituality whilst in the midst of, or in formulation of a battle.

In his Guesses at the Riddle of Existence ( 1897 ), he abandons the faith in Christianity expressed in his lecture of 1861 on Historical Progress ( where he forecast the speedy reunion of Christendom on the ” basis of free conviction “), and writes in a spirit “ not of Agnosticism, if Agnosticism imports despair of spiritual truth, but of free and hopeful inquiry, the way for which it is necessary to clear by removing the wreck of that upon which we can found our faith no more .”

" Muir felt that his task was more than just recording " phenomena ," but also to " illuminate the spiritual implications of those phenomena ," writes Williams.

Evola writes that war always has an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.

" In this context ," writes Paul V. Murphy, " the Agrarian image of a better antebellum South came to represent for Warren a potential source of spiritual revitalization.

"( Chap. 7 ) Kempis writes that false sense of freedom and overconfidence are obstacles for spiritual life.

Kempis writes that in this Sacrament spiritual grace is conferred, the soul's strength is replenished, and the recipient's mind is fortified and strength is given to the body debilitated by sin.

He writes about spiritual gifts, faith, hope and charity.

Prof. Spiegelberg writes, " While outward religious practice never entered his life any more than it did that of most academic scholars of the time, his mind remained open for the religious phenomenon as for any other genuine experience.

Around 85 percent of women experience Types I and II, and 15 percent Type III, though Martha Nussbaum writes that Type III nevertheless accounts for 80 – 90 percent of all such procedures in countries such as Sudan, Somalia, and Dijbouti.

Bernard Rollin of Colorado State University, the principal author of two U. S. federal laws regulating pain relief for animals, writes that researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain, and that veterinarians trained in the U. S. before 1989 were simply taught to ignore animal pain.

Nonetheless, Imad al-Din writes the raid was alarming to the Muslims because they were not accustomed to attacks on that sea and Ibn al-Athir adds that the inhabitants had no experience with the Crusaders either as fighters or traders.

In summary, Huxley writes that the ability to think straight is not reduced while under the influence of mescaline, visual impressions are intensified, and the human experimenter will see no reason for action because the experience is so fascinating.

He writes that he was transported into a world of farcical meaninglessness and notes that the experience was interesting and funny, but not religious.

As Marius writes in his biography of More: " To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment's hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us.

Based on this introspection, he writes " This discloses the real mystery of free will: if our experience is compatible with its utter absence, how can we say that we see any evidence for it in the first place?

Arabesk is folk music style that originally appeared in Turkey during the 1960s as a reflection of migrant workers first experience of immigration inside the homeland As Brown writes, “ With its bittersweet longing for a homeland left behind — a homeland most Turkish-German youngsters could never have seen expect perhaps on vacation — Arabesk expresses a nostalgia and cultural pessimism that dovetails perfectly with hip hop ’ s invention of community through stories of displacement ” ( Brown, 144 ).

Her tragic cycle Requiem documents her personal experience of this time ; as she writes, " one hundred million voices shout " through her " tortured mouth ".

In 1986, Sue writes a memoir of her experience entitled My Name is Susan Snell, which warns the reader not to forget about the events that took place in Chamberlain, otherwise something like it may happen again.

Of the uncanny feeling of emotional unity we experience in surrendering ourselves — giving up temporarily the burden of our difference — to the Other in art, Rank writes in Art and Artist: " produces a satisfaction which suggests that it is more than a matter of the passing identification of two individuals, that it is the potential restoration of a union with the Cosmos, which once existed and was then lost.

He writes that " widespread acceptance of readiness and independent toileting have since been supported by clinical experience and resulted in agreement that a child should be ready to participate in toilet training at approximately 18 months of age and be trained completely by 2 or 3 years old.

Pius seems to have given him no military experience ; the biographer writes that Marcus spent the whole of Pius ' twenty-three-year reign at his emperor's side — and not in the provinces, where most previous emperors had spent their early careers.

Anna writes at the beginning of the Alexiad about her education, highlighting her experience with literature, Greek language, rhetoric, and sciences.

In describing the rationale for this early appointment as studio manager, film historian David Thomson writes that his new job " owed nothing to nepotism, private wealth, or experience in the film industry.

Larry Carbone, a laboratory animal veterinarian, writes that, in his experience, IACUCs take their work very seriously regardless of the species involved, though the use of non-human primates always raises what he calls a " red flag of special concern.

Bernard Rollin of Colorado State University, the principal author of two U. S. federal laws regulating pain relief for animals, writes that researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain, and that veterinarians trained in the U. S. before 1989 were simply taught to ignore animal pain.

Williams writes, " Such an upbringing presented to a young man of marked intelligence, such as Idries Shah soon proved himself to possess, many opportunities to acquire a truly international outlook, a broad vision, and an acquaintance with people and places that any professional diplomat of more advanced age and longer experience might well envy.

Muir's biographer, Frederick Turner, notes Muir's journal entry upon first visiting the valley and writes that his description " blazes from the page with the authentic force of a conversion experience.

During his career as writer and while living in the mountains, Muir continued to experience the " presence of the divine in nature ," writes Holmes From Travels in Alaska: " Every particle of rock or water or air has God by its side leading it the way it should go ; The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness ; In God's wildness is the hope of the world.

" He drew inspiration from personal experience, noting years later that " Whatever one writes is in a sense autobiographical, of course.

The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego " dawn state ", depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child.