A Dictionary of Spiritual Terms. From Acupuncture to Zoroaster.

Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "enlightenment" or "kundalini" are hyperlinked to archives further explaining the term. At the corresponding archive you will also find articles related to the term.

A spiritual dictionary from J-R of the most common spiritual words in Hinduism. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritual Dictionary and Hinduism Dictionary.

Spiritualism:

Religious doctrines that advocate communication between the living and the spirits of the dead using a medium as intermediary.

(See also: Spiritualism, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Spiritual Self Used for buddhi-manas, the spiritual monad.

(See also: Spiritual Self, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Spiritual Ego The spiritual monad, the first vehicle of the atman, divine ego, or jivatman. It expresses itself through the spiritual soul or buddhis. Also called the spirit-man.

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Spiritual Soul Buddhi; in man, typically the immortal individual monad. The first vehicle of the atmic monadic ray is the spiritual ego, a copy in miniature of the monad, individualized throughout manvantaric evolution. The second vehicle is the spiritual soul, the bearer, veil, or carrier of the spiritual ego.

(See also: Spiritual Soul, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

A Hinduism dictionary with the most common spiritual words from P-Z. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritual Dictionary and Hinduism Dictionary.

SPIRITUALISM: is the belief that the spirits (or 'dead' people) can talk to us in this dimension.

(See also: SPIRITUALISM, Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

SPIRITUAL PLANE: a person's perception of life's existence, consisting of belief or lack of belief in the Divine.

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PARTNERSHIP SPIRITUALITY - cooperative male or female spirituality that preceded and surpassed historic religion and philosophy. (Riano Eisler) (NAD)

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Spiritualism:

A religion based upon the belief in life after death and the experiences of various mediums over the last hundred years; organized primarily to provide legal protection for the mediums and their followers.

(See also: Spiritualism, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

spiritual healing: A form of channeling and energy medicine (vibrational medicine) that involves the transference (commonly through the hands) of healing energy from its spiritual source to one who needs help. Its theory posits a spiritual body.

(See also: Spiritual healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Spiritual Principles Atma and buddhi are the two essentially spiritual principles in man; and manas is to be classed as a spiritual principle when it is the vehicle for atma-buddhi, although manas itself is monadic in essence, and therefore at its heart -- but not in its present manifested condition or evolutionary state -- is as spiritual as the two former. There is an atman and a buddhi of the manas itself, and belonging to the manasic principle itself; and it is precisely this svabhavic atma-buddhi in the manas which allows the atman and buddhi principles to coalesce with the manas and use it.

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spiritual psychotherapy: Method promoted by Carol Weidberg, a psychoanalyst and intuitive. It includes dreamwork, and its theory affirms the Jungian theory of synchronicity.

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spiritual psychology: Healing modality that stems from anthroposophy, archetypal psychology, and Jungian psychology.

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Spiritualism. In philosophy, the state or condition of mind opposed to materialism or a material conception of things. Theosophy, a doctrine which teaches that all which exists is animated or informed by the Universal Soul or Spirit, and that not an atom in our universe can be outside of this omnipresent Principle - is pure Spiritualism.

As to the belief that goes under that name, namely, belief in the constant communication of the living with the dead, whether through the mediumistic powers of oneself or a

so-called medium - it is no better than the materialisation of spirit, and the degradation of the human and the divine, souls. Believers in such communications are simply dishonouring the dead and performing constant sacrilege. It was well called "Necromancy" in days of old. But our modern Spiritualists take offence at being told this simple truth.

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Spiritual Surgery: Form of spirit healing and variation of spirit surgery promoted by Lorna Green. Green is a medium for a team of Spiritual Surgeons, entities of the fifth plain (a plain of Christ Consciousness) who work through God.

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Spiritus (Latin) Breath, air, spirit; in medieval European alchemy it corresponds with fire and sulfur in the triad of sulfur, mercury, and salt -- or spirit, soul, and body. With the Nazarenes, the female aspect of the anima mundi, the manifested part as contrasted with its unmanifest or divine aspect.

(See also: Spiritus, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)