In 2005 Lerner became chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives whose mission was to " challenge the materialism and selfishness in American society and to promote an ethos of love, generosity, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

In 2004 Lerner became chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives whose mission was to " challenge the materialism and selfishness in American society and to promote an ethos of love, generosity, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

* Spiritual materialism

Chögyam Trungpa coined the term spiritual materialism with his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism from talks explaining Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center in Boulder, Colorado.

# Spiritual materialism is the belief that a certain temporary state of mind is a refuge from suffering.

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.

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.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

From 1900 on, he began lecturing about concrete details of the spiritual world ( s ), culminating in the publication in 1904 of the first of several systematic presentations, his Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos, followed by How to Know Higher Worlds ( 1904 / 5 ), Cosmic Memory ( a collection of articles written between 1904 and 1908 ), and An Outline of Esoteric Science ( 1910 ).

** Timothy Leary forms the spiritual group League for Spiritual Discovery.

In the meantime, he had composed a great part of his most famous poem Spiritual Canticle during this imprisonment ; his harsh sufferings and spiritual endeavours are then reflected in all of his subsequent writings.

Spiritual identity appears when the symbolic religious and spiritual value of a culture is found by individuals in the setting of their own life.

* The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre in Memory of Bruno Hussar ( known as " Doumia ~ Sakinah "): a place and a framework for spiritual reflection on issues at the core of the middle east conflict and the search for its resolution.

Considering misunderstandings about Khayyám in the West and elsewhere, Hossein Nasr concludes by saying that if a correct study of the authentic rubaiyat is done, but along with the philosophical works, or even the spiritual biography entitled Sayr wa sulak ( Spiritual Wayfaring ), we can no longer view the man as a simple hedonistic wine-lover, or even an early skeptic, but a profound mystical thinker and scientist whose works are more important than some verses.

Spiritual practitioner e. g. a dibia can through this means convey the good news to people while a spiritual student can learn from the same channel.

His major academic work, Spiritual Intimacy: A study of Counseling in Hasidim, was the result of his doctoral research into the system of spiritual direction cultivated within Chabad Hasidism.

Eliade's articles before and after his adherence to the principles of the Iron Guard ( or, as it was usually known at the time, the Legionary Movement ), beginning with his famous Itinerar spiritual (" Spiritual Itinerary ", serialized in Cuvântul in 1927 ), center on several political ideals advocated by the far right.

* Spiritual capital, which refers to the power, influence and dispositions created by a person or an organization ’ s spiritual belief, knowledge and practice.

The Supreme Spiritual and Administrative leader of the Armenian Church is the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, who is the worldwide spiritual leader of the Nation, for Armenians both in Armenia and dispersed throughout the world.

* The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation Hilyat al-abdāl a short work on the essentials of the spiritual Path

He explained his spiritual journey in two privately printed books, Apologia ( 1917 ) and A Spiritual Aeneid ( 1918 ).

An ecclesiastical court, also called Court Christian or Court Spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters.

* Spiritual Example: Demonstrate commitment to Christ through the practice of the spiritual disciplines ( prayer, praise, worship, confession, fasting, meditation and study ); demonstrate commitment to the body of Christ through loyalty to God and commitment to his church ; and demonstrate commitment to the work of Christ through being good stewards.

The text is divided into four books, which provide detailed spiritual instructions: " Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life ", " Directives for the Interior Life ", " On Interior Consolation " and " On the Blessed Sacrament ".

Spiritual warfare has been applied to spiritual growth in holiness, or what is technically called sanctification.

* Spiritual evolution, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and / or human culture evolve along a predetermined cosmological pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-determined potentials

* Spiritual theology — studying theology as a means to orthopraxy – Scripture and tradition are both used as guides for spiritual growth and discipline

The terms " Spiritual Emergence " and " Spiritual Emergency " were coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof in order to describe a spiritual crisis in a person's life ( precedents of Grof's approach in this regard are found in Jung, Perry, Dabrowski, Bateson, Laing, Cooper and antipsychiatry in the widest sense of the term ).

The term " Spiritual emergence " describes a " gradual unfoldment of spiritual potential with no disruption in psychological-social-occupational functioning ".

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

Spiritual and philosophical institutions have been allowed to be established or re-established, as long they are not perceived to be a threat to the power of the CPC.

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.

Because of this, Spiritual Deists are extremely welcoming and tolerant to all except dogma, demagoguery, and intolerance itself.

Therefore, most Spiritual Deists are more comfortable contemplating the universe as a mystery than they are in filling it with belief systems such as eternal reward, reincarnation, karma, etc.

Spiritual Deists are likely to label themselves “ Spiritual But Not Religious ”.

Spiritual values are therefore worth striving for as they alone offer the soul, its ultimate freedom and stability.

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

The Olney Hymns are subdivided into three books: Book I, On Select Texts of Scripture ; Book II, On occasional Subjects ; and, Book III, On the Progress and Changes of the Spiritual Life.

Spiritual gifts are received as a result of the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

The balance are Lords Spiritual ( prelates of the Anglican Church ).

" Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life.

Most recently, the last principle, adopted in 1985 and generally known as the Seventh Principle, " Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part ", and a sixth source ( adopted in 1995 ), " Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature " were added to explicitly include members with Neopagan, Native American, and pantheist spiritualities.

Its nine members are elected every five years from the male membership in good standing of the world community by an electoral college consisting of all the members of each Bahá ' í National Spiritual Assembly throughout the world.

* Henry Constable's Spiritual Sonnetts are written.

Most of these are either part of the more traditional Old Believer movement, which arose from a schism within Russian Orthodoxy, or the more radical " Spiritual Christianity " movement.

Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them — the Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.

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.

Students at the Spiritual University must conquer lust in order to go to Golden Age heaven on earth where children are created by power of mind for 2, 500 years of peace and purity ( like holy swan ).

Spiritual gifts are distinguished from other graces of the Holy Spirit, such as the fruit of the Spirit and the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, in that the charismata are to be used for the benefit of others while the fruit of the Spirit and the Isaiahan gifts result in personal sanctification.