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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is an American guru, spiritual teacher, and author who has contributed to the subject of what he calls "evolutionary spirituality." He sees himself as working to bring about "the next stage" of human cultural development. Cohen was born in New York City in 1955. Raised as a secular Jew, his life was changed by a spontaneous experience of "cosmic consciousness" at the age of sixteen. As a result, Cohen studied martial arts, then Kriya Yoga, then Buddhism. In 1986, he met the Advaita Vedanta master H.W.L. Poonja. Wit ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Unity Church

The Unity Church (also known as the Unity School of Christianity) is the largest of the New Thought denominations of Christianity. It was founded by Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931) in 1889 in Kansas City, Missouri. It is headquartered in Unity Village, Missouri. There are over 900 churches and study groups that are affiliated with Unity. Unity has over tw ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Self-Realization Fellowship

The Self-Realization Fellowship is a religious organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920. The group carries on Yogananda's teachings, including Kriya Yoga, a form of yoga the group claims originated millennia ago in India. To this end, it conducts correspondence courses in this discipline. It also publishes Yogananda's writings, lectures, and recorded talks; oversees temples, retreats, meditation centers, and monastic communities bearing the name Self-Realization Order; and coordinates the Worldwide Prayer Circle, which it ...

Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Ashokananda

Image:Ashokananda.jpg Swami Ashokananda was born in the village of Bekitaka in the year 1893. His premonastic name was Yogeshchandra Datta. He spent his childhood days in Durgapur(now part of Bangladesh). He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1921 and took the vow of Sannyasa in 1923 from Swami Shivananda, second President fo the Order. He served as the editor of the Prabuddha Bharata, English monthly organ of the Ramakrishna Order, from 1926 to 1930. He was Swami-in-charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco (founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1900) from 1932 till h ...

Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Chitra Singh

Chitra Singh is a famous India-based singer of Urdu/Hindi ghazals and wife of Jagjit Singh, also a prominent ghazal singer. They together remain one of the most popular duet teams and are considered pioneers in modern ghazal singing. Chitra Singh (maiden name Née Dutta), born in a Bengali family had no formal musical training but had strong roots of music in her family and learnt much of her music by listening to her mother's guru. Chitra singh met Jagjit singh in Bombay in late 1960s and both used to sing jingles for various ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Yogoda Satsanga

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) is a non-profit religious organisation founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1917. In 1920, he carried India’s sacred soul liberating science of Raja Yoga to the West where, in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., he established the international headquarters of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). YSS/SRF is devoted to the spiritual upliftment of mankind. Paramahansa Yogananda dedicated his life to awakening in the hearts of all a deep love for God. He opened the door of his teachings to all persons r ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Culture of Bhutan

Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographic isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally and economically, with the goal of preserving its cultural heritage and independence. Only in the last decades of the 20th century were foreigners allowed to visit the country, and only then in limited numbers. In this way, Bhutan has successfully preserved many aspects of a cu ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Kalu Rinpoche

Kalu Rinpoche (1905 - May 10, 1989) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar and teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan masters to teach in the West. The term Rinpoche is an honorific title (meaning "precious one" or "precious jewel") which is frequently used to address or describe reincarnated Tibetan lamas. Kalu is rarely referred to without this title. Kalu Rinpoche - History. Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 during the Female Wood Snake year of the Tibetan lunar ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Bellarmine College Preparatory

© Bellarmine College Prep Bellarmine College Preparatory is the oldest secondary school in California and one of the oldest private secondary schools in the United States. It is a Roman Catholic school in the tradition of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Located in San Jose, California, the school is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of San Jose, and sponsored by the Society of Jesus. Bellarmine College Preparatory - History. Bellarmine has its origin in 1851 when Father John Nobi ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Cessationism

Cessationism, in Christian theology, is the view that the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit were for the purpose of founding and strengthening the church as it grew and expanded into the Roman Empire, thus they were in effect only during the time between the coming of the Spirit on Pentecost c. 33 AD (see Acts 2) and the fulfilment of God's purposes in history, usually identified as either the completion of the last book of the New Testament or the death of the last Apostle. This view is usually supported by reference to Ephesians ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Abbey of Sénanque

The Abbey of Sénanque (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France. It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of the bishop of Cavaillon, and Raymond Berenger II, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from the Abbey of Maza in the Vivarais. Temporary huts housed the first community of monks, who found patrons in the seigneuurs of Simiane and enabled them to raise the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to fo ...

Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Yamabushi

Yamabushi (山伏, Yamabushi?) were Japanese mountain ascetics and warriors, mostly of the Shingon sect of Buddh ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Kriya yoga

Kriya yoga is a system of Indian yoga that was first popularized in the West by Paramahansa Yogananda. The system consists of a number of yogic techniques that purportedly hasten the practitioner's spiritual evolution and help to bring about a profound state of tranquility and god-communion within one's own self. Kriya yoga - History. According to Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, kriya yoga was well-known in ancient India, but was eventually lost. In 1861 however, the book con ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Golden Age Foundation

Golden Age Foundation founded by Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma is an Indian based, secular, socio-spiritual organization committed to the transformation of mankind to an altered state of consciousness thus ushering humanity into its next phase of evolution in terms of consciousness. This movement was inspired by the noble vision of its founders to liberate Man from all kinds of suffering by bestowing the highest benediction, Enlightenment or the state of Oneness. Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma claim themselves as the Avatars for enlight ...

Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Esalen Institute

Esalen Institute is a center for humanistic education, a nonprofit organization devoted to multidisciplinary studies ordinarily neglected by traditional academia. Now in its fifth decade, Esalen offers more than 500 public workshops a year in addition to invitational conferences, residential work-study programs, research initiatives, and internships. Part think-tank for the emerging world culture, part college and lab for transformative practices, and part restorative retreat, Esalen is dedicated to exploring work in the humanities and sciences tha ...

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Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia - Inedia

A breatharian is someone who believes that food (and possibly water) are not necessary for human sustenance. Breatharians claim that the body can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight. There have been no verified cases of this occurring indefinitely to date. Breatharianism or inedia may also refer to this philosophy practiced as a lifestyle in place of the usual diet. While it is often seen as an esoteric practice performed by eastern ascet ...

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Spiritual Retreats: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Universal Mother Mary's Garden

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Spiritual Retreats: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary III on Ashram

Ashram: A spiritual settlement or community, a peaceful retreat. A place to meditate or study the philosophy of Yoga.

(See also: Ashram, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

Spiritual Retreats: Sai Baba Dictionary on Kuteeram

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Kuteeram: Spiritual retreat (SSS-II)

Spiritual Retreats: Encyclopedia II - Spiritual Exercises - Typical methodology and structure of the Exercises

Ideally these Exercises were designed to take place in the setting of a secluded retreat, during which those undergoing the exercises would be focused on nothing other than the Exercises. They were also designed to be carried out while under the direction of a spiritual director. The primary aim of their authorship appears to have been for use as a part of the Catholic religious order of Jesuits' novitiate program. As such they are a required component of the Jesuit novitiate training program, that usually takes place during the first ...

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