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Dictionary - Telepathy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Telepathy
Telepathy [from Greek tele far off, at a distance + pathos feeling]   The transference of thought or feeling from mind to mind in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abhidheya: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Abhidheya
Abhidheya- comes from the verbal root abhidha, which means "to set forth or explain,” and the word abhidheya literally mean...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Somananda: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Somananda
Somananda: (Sanskrit) Disciple of Vasugupta and author of Sivadrishti (ca 850­900), which was said to be a highly influential expl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Homily: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Homily
Homily (Greek, "discourse") An address given during the Christian liturgy, often synonymous with sermon (Lat. , "speech...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ugghatitannu: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Ugghatitannu
ugghatitannu (uggha.tita~n~nu): Of swift understanding. After the Buddha attained Awakening and was considering whether or not to teac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Visualization: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Visualization
Visualization See Meditation Sutra for explanation.   The visualizations (in the Meditation Sutra) are distinguished into sixte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rasa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Rasa
Rasa - (1) the spiritual transformation of the heart which takes place when the perfectional state of love for Krsna, known as rati, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Loss Of A Sensory Ability Or Of A Motor Ability: Dream Interpretation - Loss Of A Sensory Ability Or Of A Motor Ability
  Loss of a Sensory Ability or of a Motor Ability Usually, this is a very symbolic event in a dream. A 34-year-old man reports: I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mudra: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Mudra
A Theosophical definition of Mudra :   Mudra (Sanskrit) A general name for certain intertwinings or positions of the fingers of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aboriginal Dreaming: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Aboriginal Dreaming
Aboriginal Dreaming An English expression adopted by Australian Aborigines to convey ideas that, though related in their thought, are ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dreams About Ghosts: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Ghosts
  Ghosts Some believe that the ghosts in their dreams are real representations of the dead. This is an unlikely explanation of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology C-d
A dictionary of Parapsycology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that pa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fourfold Classification: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fourfold Classification
Fourfold Classification There are many different ways of dividing the constitution of the universe or of any integral entity within it...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Magical Powers: Dream Interpretation - Magical Powers
  Magical Powers One of the great things about dreams, especially lucid dreams where you are aware of dreaming and can practicall...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Supernatural: Parapsychology Dictionary On Supernatural
Supernatural: Events that have no natural explanation. Commonly refers to acts of the divine but can also include extraordinary acts ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Analogy: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Analogy
analogy: An explanation of a thing made by comparing it point by point with another thing. For example, in the analogy of the potter, th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tarot, Implements Of: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Tarot, Implements Of
TAROT, IMPLEMENTS OF The best explanation of the sacred objects on The Magician's table can be found in Paul Christian's Histoire de l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solomon, King Of Israel, Judah, Shelomoh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solomon, King Of Israel, Judah, Shelomoh
Solomon, King of Israel and Judah shelomoh (Hebrew) [from shalom prosperous cf Arab zuleima, Greek Salomon Latin solomo, genitive solo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology N-p
A dictionary of parapsychology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypothesis: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Hypothesis
Hypothesis: Scientific term for wild guess, hunch, tentative explanation or possibility to be tested.   (See also: Hypothesis ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cosmos: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Cosmos
A Theosophical definition of Cosmos :   Cosmos vs Kosmos Whenever a theosophist speaks of the cosmos or the universe, he by no ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guides: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guides
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taste Process: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Taste Process
The Taste Process   The first subjective experience of a substance on the tongue is taste (rasa). A short time later, one feels h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Sex, Sexual Dreams: Dream Interpretation - Sex, Sexual Dreams
  Sex, Sexual Dreams Interpreting sexual dreams Sexual dreams are not about sex exclusively. Often they are about how we perceiv...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bach Flower Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Bach Flower Therapy
Bach flower therapy (Bach flower essence method, Bach flower essence system):  Homeopathic system of diagnosis and treatment deve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetary Chain: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Planetary Chain
A Theosophical definition of Planetary Chain :   Planetary Chain Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or com...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhur-bhuva: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bhur-bhuva
Bhur-Bhuva (Sanskrit). A mystic incantation, as Om, Bhur, Bhuva, Swar, meaning "Om, earth, sky, heaven, This is the exoteric expl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arcana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arcana
Arcana (Latin) Secrets, mysteries; in ancient times almost invariably what was secret, sacred, and taught in silence and privacy in th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychokinesis: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis The power of mind over matter without the use of physical or sensory means. Together with ESP, psychokinesis is investig...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Loss Of A Sensory Ability Or Of A Motor Ability: Dream Interpretation - Loss Of A Sensory Ability Or Of A Motor Ability
  Loss of a Sensory Ability or of a Motor Ability Usually, this is a very symbolic event in a dream. A 34-year-old man reports: I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hari-vasara: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Hari-vasara
Hari-vasara - the day of Lord Hari; this refers especially to Ekadasi; it also refers to other holy days such as Janmastami and Ramana...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology A-b
A dictionary of Parapsycology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that pa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dugpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dugpa
Dugpa 'drug pa dug-pa (Tibetan) Adherents of the Buddhist religion of Tibet who, previous to the reform by Tsong-kha-pa in the 14th ce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chased: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Being Chased
Chased : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Being Chased   BEING CHASED IN A DREAM This is the most common negative dream. Did ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology T-z
A dictionary of parapsychology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Faq Dictionary: Is This Dream Common?
Dream FAQ Dictionary: Is this dream common?   Is this dream common? A. Yes.:-) Specifically, if people ask the newsgroups abou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seasons: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seasons
Seasons The seasons are at least in part due to the inclination of the earth's axis, and wholly according to this explanation in moder...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Causal Body: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Causal Body
A Theosophical definition of Causal Body :   Causal Body For a proper explanation of the doctrine connected with this term the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Faq Dictionary: Do Dreams Predict The Future?
Dream FAQ Dictionary: Do dreams predict the future?   Do dreams predict the future? A. This, like many other things commonly r...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Invisible Worlds: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Invisible Worlds
A Theosophical definition of Invisible Worlds :   Invisible Worlds The ancient wisdom teaches that the universe is not only a l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metempsychosis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis. The progress of the soul from one stage of existence to another. Symbolized as and vulgarly believed to be rebirths in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Accupuncture: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Accupuncture
ACCUPUNCTURE: ·      The modern name is derived from the Latin words Acus (needle) and Punctura (pene...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetary Chain: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Planetary Chain
Planetary Chain Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or comet, atom or electron, is a composite entity comprised of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pluralism: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Pluralism
pluralism In metaphysical view, the phenomena of reality (including life) must have multiple explanation. For example, the body is ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vortex-atom Theory: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vortex-atom Theory
Vortex-Atom Theory The theory devised by Kelvin (1824-1907), more or less copied after misunderstood teachings of the ancients, to rep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhakshetra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Buddhakshetra
Buddhakshetra buddhakshetra (Sanskrit) (from buddha awakened + kshetra field, sphere of action)   The sphere of action of an enli...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rings And Rounds: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rings And Rounds
Rings and Rounds. Terms employed by Theosophists in explanation of Eastern cosmogony. They are used to denote the various evolutionary...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fifty-two Stages Of Bodhisattva Practice: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary On Fifty-two Stages Of Bodhisattva Practice
Fifty-two stages of bodhisattva practice (Jpn.: gojuni-i)   Also, fifty-two stages of practice. The stages through which bodhisat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guhya-vidya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guhya-vidya
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Folklore: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Folklore
Folklore - (in reference to chapter seventeen) , there is a saying: "To make money by counting the waves.” The explanation ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Besom: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Besom
Besom (Old English) A ritual broom. A witch's broomstick. European folklore has witches riding their brooms through the sky, which may...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Diakka: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Diakka
Diakka. Called by Occultists and Theosophists "spooks" and "shells", i.e., phantoms from Kama Loka. A word invente...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occam's Razor: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Occam's Razor
A Christian theological definition of Occam's Razor according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:   &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vyakarana Vedanga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vyakarana Vedanga
Vyakarana Vedanga: (Sanskrit) Auxiliary Vedic texts on Sanskrit grammar. Vyakarana is among four linguistic skills taught for mastery ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Incense: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Incense
Incense Fragrant incense has been used from immemorial antiquity practically worldwide, often in ceremonial magic of various kinds. In...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chased: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Being Chased
Chased : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Being Chased   BEING CHASED IN A DREAM This is the most common negative dream. Did ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zend, Zand: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zend, Zand
Zend, Zand (Pahlavi) Zantay (Avestan) [from the verbal root zan cognition, knowledge cf Old Persian dan]   Commentary, interpreta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tao Teh Ching, Tao Te King: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tao Teh Ching, Tao Te King
Tao Teh Ching or Tao Te King (Chinese) [from tao path, way + te virtue + ching book]   The canon of tao and virtue, or the Book o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Soma
Soma (Sanskrit) In Hinduism, the moon astronomically; mystically, a sacred beverage of initiates, "made from a rare mountain plan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Upasruti: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Upasruti
Upasruti (Sanskrit). According to Orientahists a "supernatural voice which is heard at night revealing the secrets of the future ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hyades: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hyades
Hyades (from Greek hyo to rain)   The rainers, or daughters of rain; the stars in the head of Taurus the Bull, the brightest of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hwyl: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hwyl
Hyades (from Greek hyo to rain)   The rainers, or daughters of rain; the stars in the head of Taurus the Bull, the brightest of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mistletoe: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mistletoe
Mistletoe. This curious plant, which grows only as a parasite upon other trees, such as the apple and the oak, was a mystic plant in s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iaho: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iaho
Iaho. Though this name is more fully treated under the word"Yaho" and "Iao", a few words of explanation will not b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tulku, Sprul Sku: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tulku, Sprul Sku
Tulku sprul sku (Tibetan) [short for sprul pa'i sku (tul-pe-ku) from sprul pa phantom, disembodied spirit; cf Sanskrit nirmanakaya bod...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Automatic Writing: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing The practice in which a person takes pen and paper, makes his mind blank, and waits for his pen to write by some inv...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shrauta Shastra: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Shrauta Shastra
Shrauta Shastra: (Sanskrit) "Texts on the revelation." 1)    Refers to scriptures or teachings that are in a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phlogiston: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Phlogiston
Phlogiston [from Greek phlog fire]   In the 17th century modern chemistry was in process of birth and alchemical ideas still surv...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chou Tun-i: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Chou Tun-i
Chou Tun-i (1017-1073): Founder of Neo-Confucianism whose short work Explanation on the Diagram of the Great Ultimate describes how al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rowhanee: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rowhanee
Rowhanee (Egypt, Egyptian) or Er-Roohanee. is the Magic of modern Egypt, supposed to proceed from Angels and Spirits, that is Genii, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhashya: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Bhashya
bhashya: n (Sanskrit) "Speech, discussion." Commentary on a text.   Hindu philosophies are largely founded upon the in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vasudeva: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vasudeva
Vasudeva (Sanskrit) The son of Vasudeva -- Krishna. The Mahabharata, however, gives another explanation why Krishna was given this nam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occam's Razor: Parapsychology Dictionary On Occam's Razor
Occam's Razor: The principle that we should always prefer the simplest explanation of events.   (See also: Occam's Razor , Ps...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychokinesis: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis The power of mind over matter without the use of physical or sensory means. Together with ESP, psychokinesis is investig...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychic Experience: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Psychic Experience
psychic experience The reality of a supernormal phenomenon, either of spontaneous or meditative type. The event must have a personali...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parakinesis: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Parakinesis
parakinesis Physical psychic phenomenon in which there is no normal explanation for movement manifested   (See also: Parakine...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Out: Parapsychology Dictionary On Out
Out: In conjuring and mentalism, a convincing explanation for an apparent failure, or a convincing alternative ending to an effect th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zend-avesta: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Zend-avesta
Zend-Avesta (Pahli). The general name for the sacred books of the Parsis, fire or sun worshippers, as they are ignorantly called. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Urim: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Urim
Urim (Hebrew) [plural 'ur light, flame, revelation, illumination from the verbal root 'arar to curse]   Lights; the 'urim and tum...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cryptomnesia: Parapsychology Dictionary On Cryptomnesia
Cryptomnesia: Knowledge (acquired in normal ways) that may be revealed without the person remembering its source. Such memories may f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma-drink: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Soma-drink
Soma-drink. Made from a rare mountain plant by initiated Brahmans. This Hindu sacred beverage answers to the Greek ambrosia or nectar,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Temporal Lobe Activity: Parapsychology Dictionary On Temporal Lobe Activity
Temporal Lobe Activity: Electrical activity in the temporal lobes of the brain. Often associated with strange sensations, time distor...   » Read the article

Article - Vedic Science: Understanding The Creation Of The Universe
Why should we understand how the universe was created? Because it gives us a clearer understanding of where we have come from, where we a...   » Read the article

Article - Group Mind: The Group Mind Principle Ii
The number of similarities between the function of a two-way radio and the human body are quite surprising. The body/mind constantly emit...   » Read the article

Article - Hinduism: Hinduism Lexicon On B
Hinduism Lexicon on B From backbiting to buddhi chitta.    » Read the article

Article - Meaning Of Dreams: Dream Works
In the stillness of the night, when not a sound breaks the hushed silence, they timorously creep into your mind. Fragile, flittering form...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality And Science: The Holographic Universe
This very, very exciting article actually gives a scientific theory behind many spiritual viewpoints and spiritual experiences, including...   » Read the article