Spiritual Psychology is based on an understanding of humans being multi-layered entities with a mind, body and Soul. How do we awaken the Soul Aspect of our being and how come we could meditate on a mountaintop for eons without significantly touching our underlying emotional traumas? Likewise, how come we could do psychoanalyze ourselves for a lifetime without moving a step closer to enlightenment. How do we reconcile this uneasy alliance between our emotional and spiritual selves?

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

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

Hierogrammatists (from Greek hierogrammateus from hieros sacred + grammateus scribe)

Applied by Greek writers to the sacred scribes of ancient Egypt, who wrote and read the sacred records, and among whose functions was that of the instruction of initiants or neophytes preparing for initiation.

(See also: Hierarchy of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Medical Astrology presented by Ingrid Naiman, is a wholistic approach to Astrology that include not only the interpretation of an Astrology chart but also involves astroendocrinology, the effects of stress, the elements and provide remidies that promotes physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing.

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Shiites seek revenge on Sunnis for the revenge they sought on Shiites; Irish Catholics retaliate against the Protestants who retaliated against them; Hezbollah and Hamas retaliate against Israel who in turn retaliates back.

In each of these instances, people on one side claim that they are merely responding to provocation and dismiss the other side's identical claim as disingenuous spin. But psychology research suggests that these claims reflect genuinely different perceptions of the same reality.

This article, by Daniel Gilbert professor of psychology at Harvard, gives an understanding to why the conflict in the Middle East can escalate into madness without the parties themselves being aware of their own role.

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Past Life Therapy is not for the weakminded or frail-hearted. It leads a person into the depths of his own psychological makeup, but the return trip is well worth the cost of the journey, and that cost is almost always a deflation to the person's ego! After all, who wants to believe they have committed acts that were harmful to others? Or wants to remember terrible crimes in which they were a participant, or tortures in which they have been a victim in one lifetime and perhaps returned to gain revenge in subsequent lives?

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Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) (IPA:[ˈkarl ˈgʊstaf ˈjʊŋ]) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. Often mentioned along with Sigmund Freud, with whom he initially collaborated, Carl Jung was one of the first and most widely read writers of the twentieth century on the psychology of the human mind. His approach to psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of anthropology, astrology, alchemy, ...

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• Carl Jung - Jungian psychology
• Carl Jung - The collective unconscious
• Carl Jung - The shadow
• Carl Jung - Anima and Animus
• Carl Jung - Jung's life
• Carl Jung - Jung and Freud
• Carl Jung - Psychological Types
• Carl Jung - Psychological Types – another view:
• Carl Jung - Influence
• Carl Jung - Spiritualism as a cure for alcoholism
• Carl Jung - Influences on culture
• Carl Jung - Recommended Reading
• Carl Jung - Jung bibliography

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Belief in the psychological sense, is a representational mental state that takes the form of a propositional attitude. In the religious sense, "belief" refers to a part of a wider spiritual or moral foundation, generally called faith; historically generated by a group's need to provide a functionally valid foundation to sustain them. The generally accepted faiths usually note that when oppressive states are generated by it being exercised, and not a fact of reality, it was ...

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• Belief - Belief knowledge and epistemology
• Belief - Belief as a psychological theory
• Belief - Is belief voluntary?
• Belief - Delusional beliefs

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Forgiveness is a choice the forgiver makes to let go of resentment held in the forgiver's mind of a perceived wrong or difference, either actual or imagined. As the choice of forgiveness is made in the mind of the forgiver, it can be made about any resentment, whether toward another, oneself, a group, a situation or even one's God. Forgiveness of another can be granted with or without the other asking for forgiveness. Some believe the choice of forgiveness is only properly exercised if forgiveness is requested. Another view is that fo ...

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• Forgiveness - Religious and spiritual views of forgiveness
• Forgiveness - Christianity
• Forgiveness - Mythology
• Forgiveness - Psychological theories about forgiveness
• Forgiveness - Forgiveness deep trauma and repeat deep trauma
• Forgiveness - The role of forgiveness in society

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A near-death experience (NDE) is the perception reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived. They are somewhat common, especially since the development of cardiac resuscitation techniques, and are reported in approximately one-fifth of persons who revive from clinical death. The experience often includes an out-of-body experience. The phenomenology of an NDE usually includes physiological, psychological and transcendental factors (Parnia, Waller, Yeates & Fenwick, 2001) such as subject ...

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• Near-death experience - Near-Death Research
• Near-death experience - As an afterlife experience
• Near-death experience - As a naturalistic experience
• Near-death experience - Clinical Implications
• Near-death experience - Implications for health professionals
• Near-death experience - Implications for the dying patient
• Near-death experience - Implications for family and friends
• Near-death experience - Spiritual and psychological after-effects

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A Course In Miracles (ACIM) is a self-study book of "spiritual psychotherapy" that was "scribed" by Dr. Helen Schucman. The book, often referred to by its students and followers as simply The Course, is written in first person in the voice of Jesus Christ. It was first published in 1976 as a three volume set and has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in 14 different languages. The Course is written in Christian terminology and its subject aims to teach how to attain the direct personal experience of God ...

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• A Course In Miracles - Authorship and prepublication editing
• A Course In Miracles - Publication
• A Course In Miracles - ACIM based publications of note
• A Course In Miracles - Decentralized leadership amongst most ACIM students
• A Course In Miracles - Contents of ACIM
• A Course In Miracles - Main tenets
• A Course In Miracles - Introductory paragraph of A Course In Miracles
• A Course In Miracles - Definitions of cause and effect in the material world
• A Course In Miracles - Cosmology of the separation and the Atonement
• A Course In Miracles - Reunifying psychology of forgiveness and the Atonement
• A Course In Miracles - Comparisons of ACIM to other spiritual belief systems
• A Course In Miracles - Comparison of ACIM to Christianity
• A Course In Miracles - Comparison to philosophical idealism responsibility assumption and the New Thought Movement
• A Course In Miracles - Similarities between ACIM and other miscellaneous spiritual belief systems
• A Course In Miracles - Unique aspects of ACIM's spiritual belief system
• A Course In Miracles - Critical reviews
• A Course In Miracles - Some negative critical reviews
• A Course In Miracles - Some positive critical reviews
• A Course In Miracles - Two common critical misunderstandings
• A Course In Miracles - Related movements
• A Course In Miracles - Some concerns expressed regarding Charles Anderson's study group
• A Course In Miracles - ACIM church movement
• A Course In Miracles - Other ACIM related movements of note and support organizations
• A Course In Miracles - Footnote references

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This article is about Neurotheology. Go here for Neuroethology. Neurotheology, also known as biotheology, is the study of the neural basis of spirituality. Neurotheology deals with the neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual. Neurotheology - Terminology. Aldous Huxley used the term neurotheology for the first time in the utopian novel Island. The term is also sometimes used in a less s ...

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• Neurotheology - Terminology
• Neurotheology - Defining and measuring spirituality
• Neurotheology - Methdology
• Neurotheology - Criticism
• Neurotheology - Philosophical criticism
• Neurotheology - Scientific criticism

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Breathwork usually refers to a type of Buddhist meditation in which one directs one's attention to one's breath. Sustained practice of breathwork is thought to result in spiritual and/or psychological benefits. It can also refer to Holotropic Breathwork, a technique for attaining alternate states of consciousness developed by transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof. See also. Rebirthing-Breathwork ...

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The term "vocation" should not be confused with vocational education. A vocation is an occupation, either professional or voluntary, that is carried out more for its altruistic benefit than for income, which might be regarded as a secondary aspect of the vocation, however beneficial. Vocations can be seen as providing a psychological or spiritual need for the worker, and the term can also be used to describe any occupation for which a person is specifically gifted, and usually implies that t ...

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Hierarchy of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy The hierarchy of spiritual beings extending from the highest solar or galactic monad, to the least element forming its vehicles or being.

"It is built of divinities, demigods, buddhas, bodhisattvas, and great and noble men, who serve as a living channel for the spiritual currents coming to this and every other planet of our system from the heart of the solar divinity, and who themselves shed glory and light and peace upon that pathway from the compassionate deeps of their own being. . . .

"On our earth there is a minor hierarchy of light. Working in this sphere there are lofty intelligences, human souls, having their respective places in the hierarchical degrees. These masters or mahatmas are living forces in the spiritual life of the world; and awakened minds and intuitive hearts sense their presence, at least at times" (FSO 467-8). The head of the terrestrial spiritual-psychological hierarchy is a being sometimes called the Silent Watcher, who acts as a channel for all the spiritual forces flowing to and from the earth, and who is connected inwardly with all the beings on earth.

In theosophical literature, the Hierarchy of Compassion of our solar system is sometimes given as:

1)    adi-buddhi (primal wisdom), the mystic universally diffused essence;

2)    mahabuddhi (universal buddhi), the Logos;

3)    daiviprakriti (universal divine light), universal life, the Second Logos;

4)    ) Sons of Light, the seven cosmic logoi, the logoi of cosmic life, the Third Logos;

5)    dhyani-buddhas (buddhas of contemplation);

6)    dhyani-bodhisattvas (bodhisattvas of contemplation);

7)    manushya-buddhas (human buddhas), racial buddhas;

8)    bodhisattvas; and

9)    men.

Here, the Sons of Light or the seven cosmic logoi emanating from the sun and working in its kingdom are the parents of the rectors or planetary spirits of the seven sacred planets. The seven dhyani-buddhas, also called the celestial buddhas or causal buddhas, through their emanated representatives each govern one round of the septenary cycles of evolution on a planetary chain. The seven dhyani-bodhisattvas, or bodhisattvas of the celestial realms, similarly through their emanated representatives each govern one of the seven globes comprising a planetary chain.

The manushya-buddhas are the buddhas which watch over the root-races in a round, two appearing in every race, one near the commencement and one near the midpoint of each root-race. Gautama Buddha was the second racial buddha of the fifth root-race.

The bodhisattvas of earth are those spiritual and intellectually advanced human beings who leave the nirvana of buddhahood in order to remain on earth for their sublime work of aiding, stimulating, and guiding those hosts of entities, including humanity, trailing behind them.

(See also: Hierarchy of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

NDE subjects often report long-term after-effects, and changes in worldview, such as an increased interest in spirituality, an increased interest in the meaning of life, increased empathic understanding and a decrease in fear of death (van Lommel et.al, 2001). Some subjects also report internal feelings of bodily energy and/or altered states of consciousness similar to those associated with the yogic concept of kundalini (Greyson, 2000). Greyson (1983) developed The Near-Death Experience Scale in order to measure the after-effects of ...

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Near-death experience, Near-death experience - Near-Death Research, Near-death experience - As an afterlife experience, Near-death experience - As a naturalistic experience, Near-death experience - Clinical Implications, Near-death experience - Implications for health professionals, Near-death experience - Implications for the dying patient, Near-death experience - Implications for family and friends, Near-death experience - Spiritual and psychological after-effects

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NDE subjects often report long-term after-effects, and changes in worldview, such as an increased interest in spirituality, an increased interest in the meaning of life, increased empathic understanding and a decrease in fear of death (van Lommel et.al, 2001). Some subjects also report internal feelings of bodily energy and/or altered states of consciousness similar to those associated with the yogic concept of kundalini (Greyson, 2000). Greyson (1983) developed The Near-Death Experience Scale in order to measure the after-effects of ...

See also:

Near-death experience, Near-death experience - Near-death research, Near-death experience - As an afterlife experience, Near-death experience - As a naturalistic experience, Near-death experience - Clinical implications, Near-death experience - Implications for health professionals, Near-death experience - Implications for the dying patient, Near-death experience - Implications for family and friends, Near-death experience - Spiritual and psychological after-effects

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Humanistic Psychology

The school of psychology originated by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and others, that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual self and the integration of the whole person: feelings, intellect, physical and spiritual.

(See also: Humanistic Psychology, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Humanistic Psychology

The school of psychology originated by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and others, that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual self and the integration of the whole person: feelings, intellect, physical and spiritual.

(See also: Humanistic Psychology, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

transpersonal psychology (TP)

Movement stressing full sensory, psychic and spiritual development

(See also: Transpersonal psychology (TP, Body Mind and Soul)