Neglect means spiritual paralysis or death.

The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as " the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing " and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic ( fate and death ), moral ( guilt and condemnation ), and spiritual ( emptiness and meaninglessness ).

In reincarnation, spiritual development continues after death as the deceased begins another earthly life in the physical world, acquiring a superior grade of consciousness and altruism by means of successive reincarnations.

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter-day church.

He believed in " the immortality of the spiritual individuality, in a personal permanence after death, in a last order of things, in an eternal, righteous, omniscient and omnipotent God ".

TFI's founder and prophetic leader, David Berg, who was first called " Moses David " in the Texas press, communicated with his followers via Mo Letters — letters of instruction and counsel on myriad spiritual and practical subjects — until his death in late 1994.

This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer ( most famously, the Jesus Prayer ) or hesychasm, until united at death with the fire of God's love.

In life, the ka received its sustenance from food and drink, so it was believed that, to endure after death, the ka must continue to receive offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it could still consume.

In another study, data from a sample of white, Christian men and women were used to test the hypothesis that traditional, church-centered religiousness and de-institutionalized spiritual seeking are distinct ways of approaching fear of death in old age.

Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.

As a result, Jacob becomes the spiritual leader of the family after Isaac's death and the heir of the promises of Abraham ().

Contrary to mainstream Islam, the Ahmadis do not believe that Jesus is alive in heaven, but that he survived the crucifixion and migrated towards the east where he died a natural death and that Ghulam Ahmad was only the promised spiritual second coming and likeness of Jesus, the promised Messiah and Mahdi.

This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust ; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing ; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving ; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward ; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies.

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions.

Of those three books, the Ragyndrudis Codex shows incisions that could have been made by sword or axe ; its story appears confirmed in the Utrecht hagiography, the Vita altera, which reports that an eye-witness saw that the saint at the moment of death held up a gospel as spiritual protection.

Through this, Adam and Eve willfully turned away from God's will and purpose for them, thus bringing themselves and the human race into spiritual death.

# Resurrection: The process of resurrection is the process of restoration to spiritual life and spiritual maturity, ultimately uniting man with God ; it is passing from spiritual death into spiritual life.

After Bellini's death Florimo was treated as his spiritual heir.

Pope Martin IV had hopelessly compromised the Papacy in his cause ; and the botched secular " Crusades " against Sicily and ( after Charles ' death ) Aragon greatly tarnished its spiritual power.

The death of Mr. Hammarskjold removes the United Nations' most controversial leader.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

Alboin's death deprived the Lombards of the only leader who could have kept the newborn Germanic entity together, the last in the line of hero-kings who had led the Lombards through their migrations from the vale of the Elbe to Italy.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Upon the death of his predecessor Alexander in 328, more than fifty bishops gathered to choose a new leader to the Alexandrian see.

Franz Josef Strauss ( 1915 – 1988 ) had left behind the strongest legacy as a leader of the party, having led the party from 1961 until his death in 1988.

Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.

Although the WHIP ratio was not calculated until well after Young's death, Young was the retroactive league leader in this category seven times and was second or third another seven times.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

After his death, his widow Karen Zerby became the leader of TFI.

" In 1038, two years after the death of al-Zahir, the Druze movement was able to resume because the new leadership that replaced him had friendly political ties with at least one prominent Druze leader.

Enver Hoxha (; 16 October 190811 April 1985 ) was the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.

During breakfast at dawn, Granger ( leader of the group of wandering intellectuals ) discusses the legendary phoenix and its endless cycle of long life, death in flames, and rebirth, adding that the phoenix must have some relation to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but that man has something the phoenix doesn't.

Lawrence's position as Adjutant General ( militia leader ) of Virginia was divided into four offices after his death.

Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September – October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

He was assisted by Axel Oxenstierna ( 1583 – 1654 ), leader of the nobles who also acted as regent after his death.

After Peel's death in 1850 he became the recognized leader of the Peelites.

Socialist leader Otto Grotewohl ( 1894 – 1964 ) became prime minister until his death.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler's cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency vacant and transferred the role and powers of the head of state to Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ).

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, the Reichstag appointed Hitler Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ); he thus became head of state as well as head of government.