As TFI grew and expanded around the world, so did its message of salvation, apocalypticism, and spiritual " revolution " against the outside world, which the members called " the System ", which resulted in controversy.

During the last few months of his exile, Khomeini received a constant stream of reporters, supporters, and notables, eager to hear the spiritual leader of the revolution.

Nisker cites the San Francisco Oracle, which described the 1967 Human Be-In as a " spiritual revolution ".

Though ' God-Building ' was suppressed by Lenin, Gorky retained his belief that " culture "— the moral and spiritual awareness of the value and potential of the human self — would be more critical to the revolution ’ s success than political or economic arrangements.

The way forward was seen to be through the spiritual renewal entailed in a revolution in culture " The group members were discontent with the political and intellectual composition of Hungary, however, " they rejected a materialist Marxist critique of this society.

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Some observers believe " what began as an authentic and anti-dictatorial popular revolution based on a broad coalition of all anti-Shah forces was soon transformed into an Islamic fundamentalist power-grab ," that except for his core supporters, the members of the coalition thought Khomeini intended to be more a spiritual guide than a ruler – Khomeini being in his mid-70s, having never held public office, been out of Iran for more than a decade, and having told questioners things like " the religious dignitaries do not want to rule.

But a great spiritual revolution was imminent.

His journal and letters show how he was led from a sustained effort to attain the morality of the Gospel to a profound spiritual revolution.

One half-minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution ; that half-minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.

The historian Fritz Stern stated that it was " a tribute to the genuine spiritual quality of the conservative revolution that the reality of the Third Reich aroused many of them to opposition, sometimes silent, often open and costly ".

Unless we and others see the bigger vision of spiritual revolution, the other may be possible.

The Baal Shem Tov was thus determined to encourage his influential disciples ( talmidim ) to launch a spiritual revolution in Jewish life in order to reinvigorate the Jewish masses ' connections with Torah Judaism and to vigorously motivate them to bind themselves to the joyous observance of the commandments, worship, Torah study, and sincere belief in God, so that the lures of Christianity and Islam, and the appeal of the rising secular Enlightenment, to the Jewish masses would be weakened and halted.

Zureiq even left a list of changes that must be made in order for a revolution to succeed: there must be use of the machine on a wide scale, the state and religion must be separated, the scientific spirit of each individual and the society as a whole must be invigorated, and Arab society must be open toward the rational and spiritual values of other human civilizations.

It is just that for any social revolution to succeed, spiritual revolution should always be one step ahead of it.

Cornwall was however an unorthodox Muslim, and his interest in local peoples included their magical and spiritual beliefs, to which he also introduced Gardner, who took a particular interest in the kris, a ritual knife with magical uses.

The four-iwan format, finalized by the Seljuqs, and later inherited by the Safavids, firmly established the courtyard facade of such mosques, with the towering gateways at every side, as more important than the actual buildings themselves, and they typically took the form of a square-shaped, central courtyard with large entrances at each side, giving the impression of being gateways to the spiritual world.

Further, the most recent edition of Ives's biography admits that Anne may very well have had a personal spiritual awakening in her youth which spurred her on, not just as catalyst but expediter for Henry's Reformation, though the process took a number of years.

Rowland took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal spiritual experience.

After a series of victories over rival subsect leaders and Tibetan invaders, Ngawang Namgyal took the title shabdrung ( At Whose Feet One Submits, or, in many Western sources, Dharma Raja ), becoming the temporal and spiritual leader of Bhutan.

They took the Romantic approach of rooting religion in the inner world of the human spirit, so that it is a person's feeling or sensibility about spiritual matters that comprises religion.

In the spiritual vacuum of the post-Mao era, tens of millions of mostly urban and elderly Chinese citizens took up the practice of qigong, and a variety of charismatic qigong masters established practices.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Around 585 the first bishop took up residence in Konstanz and this marked the beginning of the city's importance as a spiritual centre.

Vamana then took on the form of Mahavishnu and was pleased by King Mahabali's determination and ability to keep his promise, despite his spiritual master's curse and the prospect of losing all his wealth.

At the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, took the stage at the start of game publisher Ubisoft's annual media event to reveal, to the surprise of the assembled media, the spiritual successor to his game Rez, called Child of Eden.

Local prophets took up his spiritual call, and the Creek split into two factions, roughly conforming to their settlement patterns: the Red Sticks, mostly from the Upper Towns, which comprised the majority of population, opposed the settlement of their land by whites.

In 1967, the Maharishi's fame increased and his movement " really took off " when he became the " spiritual advisor to The Beatles ".

He began initiating disciples ( known as neo-sannyasins ) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher.

During the day, various meditations and therapies took place, whose intensity was ascribed to the spiritual energy of Osho's " buddhafield ".

The third vision also occurs at Kaaba in a spiritual conversation with the Ḥaram and the Zamzam stream ; Kaaba ordered him to circumambulate it and the Zamzam told him to drink this pure water but a soft refusal made Kaaba angry and he took revenge on a cold and rainy night in the year 600 AH.

He took up afresh his study of Hebrew and began to work on the spiritual interpretation of the Bible with the goal of interpreting the spiritual meaning of every verse.

The Judgment took place because the Christian church had lost its charity and faith, resulting in a loss of spiritual free will that threatened the equilibrium between heaven and hell in everyone ’ s life

She took for her spiritual director the Abbé Antoine Singlin ( 1607 – 1664 ), famous in the history of Port-Royal.

In addition to the spiritual teachings of Haji Bektash Veli the Bktashi tariqat was significantly influenced during its formative period by both the Hurufis ( in the early 15th century ) as well as the Qalandariyah stream of Sufism, which took many forms in 13th century Anatolia.

With great knowledge of spiritual metaphysics, Autochthon devised a way to invest human souls with miraculous potency that could not be stripped away by the other Primordials, and took the gods into his confidence.

She became an active midwife, and took on the role of spiritual adviser to other women, and even John Winthrop noted that " her ordinary talke was about the things of the Kingdome of God ", and " her usuall conversation was in the way of righteousness and kindnesse.

The Stoics took all activity to imply a Logos, or spiritual principle.

In some popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in other popular views, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past.

In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or Otherworld.

The Zohar describes Gehenna not as a place of punishment for the wicked but as a place of spiritual purification for souls.

The Agora, meaning " gathering place " or " assembly ", was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the polis.

The pope assumed at times, due to the non-existence of other possibilities and on account of the Church's spiritual superiority over kingdoms, the place of an arbiter of natural and divine law in deposing kings that had offended it, for instance, in attacking the liberty of the church.

: “ Initiation is essentially the transmission of a spiritual influence, a transmission that can only take place through a regular, traditional organization, so that one cannot speak of initiation outside of an affiliation with an organization of this kind.

This Jewish rabbinical concept of a " higher Gan Eden " is opposed by the Hebrew terms Gehinnom and Sheol, figurative names for the place of spiritual purification for the wicked dead in Judaism, a place envisioned as being at the greatest possible distance from " heaven ".

It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Christian revelator and theologian who gives a spiritual interpretation of the teachings of the Bible and who claims that the second coming of Jesus Christ has already taken place.

Not only was it a place for spiritual learning and guidance, but also a gathering place for fellowship and socializing with like minded individuals.

Traditional Korean martial arts place emphasis on the development of the practitioner's spiritual and philosophical development.

As had happened previously, the Lord told the king ( who appears to be a spiritual leader as well as a secular leader ) to lead the righteous Nephites out of the land of Nephi, their ancestral home for the previous 400 years, to a new place.

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.

Eventually, however, Amritsar and Harmandir Saheb ( the Golden Temple ) became the centre of the Sikh faith, and if a Sikh goes on pilgrimage it is usually to this place considered the spiritual and cultural centre of Sikhs rather than a pilgrimage.

This not only denies the personhood of God-the-Son ( Jesus Christ ), but also distorts the spiritual transaction that was taking place at the Cross, which the Apostle Paul described as follows: " God Father was reconciling the world to himself in Christ Son, not counting people ’ s sins against them.

This awakening to moral and spiritual realities thus precedes a transformation of lifestyle and thought patterns often taking place over a long period of time and requiring a significant level of effort and commitment as described in the spiritual teachings of the world's great religions.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.