David Michael Cunningham is a respected and an influential figure in modern magick. He is primarily known as the last officially appointed administrator of the Society of Magi (SoM), a magickal organization, which in its original form doesn't exist today, although several modern fraternities claim to continue its tradition. Besides being a proficient occultist, Cunningham is a talented musician, artist, and actor. He was born on December 16 in the State of Ohio, USA, under the astrological sign of Sagittarius. His father, Gerry ...

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YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) is the youth organization that exists within the UUA (the Unitarian Universalist Association) which is the organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States of America. YRUU is an organization run by youth, and one of the pillars of YRUU is youth empowerment. YRUU - Structure. The YRUU structure is divided into 3 sections, local organization, district/regional organization, and continental organization. The accepted YRUU age rang ...

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• YRUU - Structure
• YRUU - Youth Conferences

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A hermit ἐρημίτης (from the Greek ἔρημος erēmos, signifying "desert", "uninhabited", hence "desert-dweller") is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. Originally the term was applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament (i.e. the 40 years wandering in the desert that ...

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• Hermit - Hermits in religion
• Hermit - Non-religious hermits
• Hermit - Hermits in philosophy

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Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. Both of these predecessor organizations were Christian Unitarian and Universalist denominations; but modern Unitarian Universalists define themselves as non-creedal, and therefore they may have not only Christian belief ...

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• Unitarian Universalist Association - Congregations
• Unitarian Universalist Association - Organization
• Unitarian Universalist Association - Decentralized Association
• Unitarian Universalist Association - Principles and Purposes
• Unitarian Universalist Association - General Assembly
• Unitarian Universalist Association - Related organizations

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Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990), better known during the 1970s as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later as Osho was an Indian spiritual teacher or guru. He lived in India and the United States and was the spiritual head of the Osho-Rajneesh movement, a controversial new religious movement. As is customary with spiritual teachers in India, Osho received several honorifics over his life. He was known as Acharya Rajneesh (teacher Rajneesh), later Shree Rajneesh and finally Bhagwan ...

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• Rajneesh - Osho's philosophy
• Rajneesh - Osho on meditation
• Rajneesh - Biographical notes
• Rajneesh - Childhood and awakening
• Rajneesh - The Commune
• Rajneesh - The U.S. chapter
• Rajneesh - Back in Pune
• Rajneesh - Quotations
• Rajneesh - Bibliography

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Iconography is the study and interpretation of images in art. This includes both religious and secular images of all varieties. Images have been used by many different religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Iconography - Hinduism. Images of Hindu gods use a rich symbolism. Some figures are blue-skinned (the color of heaven) or may have multiple arms holding various symbols depicting aspects of the god (the drums of change, the flower of new life, the fire of destruction, etc.). The ...

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• Iconography - Hinduism
• Iconography - Christianity
• Iconography - Symbolism in icons

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a collection of self-help recommendations, promoted through the popular psychology and self development sections of bookshops, and advertised in various media including the Internet and infomercials. NLP was proposed in 1973 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder as a set of models and principles to describe the relationship between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic, both verbal and non-verbal) and how their interaction might be organized (programming) to affect an ind ...

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• Neuro-linguistic programming - Overview
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Foundational Assumptions
• Neuro-linguistic programming - NLP and Theory
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Common Techniques and Practices
• Neuro-linguistic programming - NLP Modeling
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Fundamentals
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Presuppositions
• Neuro-linguistic programming - The B.A.G.E.L. Model
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Eye accessing cues body cues and NLP representational systems
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Meta-model and Milton Model
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Varying Concepts
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Background and Applications
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Background
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Applications
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Scientific analysis of NLP
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Criticism
• Neuro-linguistic programming - False claims to science
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Pseudoscience
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Ethical Concerns
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Questionable Applications
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Cult characteristics
• Neuro-linguistic programming - Developers

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John Paul "Jack" Rosenberg, born on September 5, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded the large group awareness training program est, short for Erhard Seminars Training, which later gave rise to WEA (1981 - 1991) and to the "Landmark Forum"/Landmark Education (1991 - ). Rosenberg married at age 18 and fathered four (some sources suggest three) children. In 1960, he left his wife and travelled west. Rosenberg changed his name to Werner Hans Erhard and his lover, June Bryde, changed hers to Ellen Virginia Erhard. Er ...

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• Werner Erhard - Philosophies and transformation
• Werner Erhard - Erhard Seminars Training
• Werner Erhard - The Hunger Project
• Werner Erhard - Werner Erhard and Associates - The Forum
• Werner Erhard - Legal strife
• Werner Erhard - Landmark Education era

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The Bruderhof Communities (German: place of brothers) are Christian faith-based communities with branches in New York and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. They have previously been called The Society of Brothers and The Hutterian Brethren. Bruderhof Communities - Beliefs and spiritual roots. The Bruderhof's foundation is faith in Jesus. His teachings are central to Bruderhof life - particularly the command "Love your neighbor as yourself," the Sermon ...

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• Bruderhof Communities - Beliefs and spiritual roots
• Bruderhof Communities - History
• Bruderhof Communities - Bruderhof today
• Bruderhof Communities - Involvement in the wider community
• Bruderhof Communities - Bruderhof enterprises

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The Azeemia Order is a Sufi order founded in Pakistan in 1960 by Qalandar Baba Auliya. Azeemia - PREFACE. Its name is Silsila-e-Alia-e-Azeemia. This organization is also known as AZEEMIA TRUST FOUNDATION. Abdal-e-Haque SYED MUHAMMAD AZEEM BARKHIA founded it. He is known by the name of 'Hazoor Qalandar Baba Auliya', a well known spiritual scholar and teacher, an intellectual and a scientist. The basic purpose of this foundation was the preaching and teaching of spiritualism and the propagation of know ...

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• Azeemia - PREFACE
• Azeemia - Establishment of Silsila-e-Azeemia
• Azeemia - Names and Titles
• Azeemia - Hassan Ukhra Sayyed Muhammed Azeem Barkhiya
• Azeemia - Huzoor Qalandar Baba Auliya R.A
• Azeemia - Worldly Life
• Azeemia - Birth
• Azeemia - Early Education
• Azeemia - Over View of Life
• Azeemia - Career
• Azeemia - Last Days
• Azeemia - Noble Character
• Azeemia - Praise Worthy Qualities
• Azeemia - Disposition
• Azeemia - Some Habits
• Azeemia - Spiritual Training & Initiation
• Azeemia - Miracles
• Azeemia - Pigeon That Came To Life
• Azeemia - Deaf & Dumb Girl
• Azeemia - Spiritual Healing of Tumor
• Azeemia - Work
• Azeemia - Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
• Azeemia - Birth
• Azeemia - Initiation
• Azeemia - Books
• Azeemia - Societies for Promotion of Education
• Azeemia - Editorship
• Azeemia - Mission
• Azeemia - HUE
• Azeemia - rules

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Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (CR) is a Neopagan religious movement. It is an effort to reconstruct, in a modern context, an ancient Celtic religious framework. Neopagan reconstructionists have been around since the 1970s but little of it has been specifically Celtic. Many of the people who went on to establish CR were involved in Neopagan groups in the seventies and eighties. Often these groups contained many Celtic elements that eventually found their way into core CR practice. This period, and these groups, are often ref ...

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• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - First Modern Appearance of the Term and Other Historical Data
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Celtic Reconstructionism and Neo-Druidry
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Bibliography

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Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name spelled as [vassi:li]) (December 4, 1866 (O.S., December 16, 1866 N.S.) – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born French painter and art theorist. One of the most important 20th-century artists, alongside Picasso and Matisse, he is credited with painting the first abstract works in the history of modern art. Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and economics. Although quite successful in his profession, he started painting studies ...

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• Wassily Kandinsky - Artistic periods
• Wassily Kandinsky - Youth and inspirations 1866-1896
• Wassily Kandinsky - Artistic metamorphosis 1896-1911
• Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider 1911-1914
• Wassily Kandinsky - Return to Russia 1914-1921
• Wassily Kandinsky - The Bauhaus 1922-1933
• Wassily Kandinsky - The great synthesis 1934-1944
• Wassily Kandinsky - Assessment
• Wassily Kandinsky - Theoretical writings on Art
• Wassily Kandinsky - On the Spiritual In Art
• Wassily Kandinsky - Point and Line to Plane
• Wassily Kandinsky - Quotes from Kandinsky
• Wassily Kandinsky - Quotations on Kandinsky

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Weigh Down Workshop (Weight Down Workshop approach): Christian weight loss program founded in 1986 by nutritionist Gwen Shamblin, author of The Weigh Down Diet (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1997). Shamblin ascribes the program to divine inspiration. According to a 1995 edition of the television newsmagazine A Current Affair, Shamblin's gospel is: Eat what you want, whenever you want, and ask the lord to help you to stop when you've had enough, so you leave room for a hefty helping of the holy spirit. Then, the program included audiocassettes, videos, books (e.g., Feasting on the Will of the Father), and revival-like religious rallies.

(See also: Weigh Down Workshop, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Chanting with Krishna Das consists of: Chanting with musical accompaniment Meditation instruction Readings from different spiritual traditions Teachings and discussions about the spiritual path Krishna Das leads chanting and satsang alone or in conjunction with other like-minded teachers of the Path. Satsangs usually last from 1-2 hours or can be scheduled to last all night. Intensive seminar/workshops can last a weekend or longer. Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of Krishna Das' own spiritual work; his way of servi ...

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Krishna Das, Krishna Das - Chanting, Krishna Das - Discography

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In the early history of the ashram there was a regular routine. At 6:15 every morning The Mother appeared on the ashram balcony to initiate the day with her blessings. Sadhaks (spiritual aspirants), who got up at 3AM, finished their own meditations and a good portion of the day’s work, and then assembled under the balcony to receive her blessings (Karmayogi no date). As the ashram grew, many departments sprang up: the office, library, dining room, press, workshops, playground, art gallery, dispensary, farms, dairies, flower gardens, ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - The Early Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - The Ashram Today

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Luis Batíz Sainz was born on September 13, 1870. He attended a minor seminary from age 12, and was ordained on January 1, 1894. He worked as spiritual director of the seminary and as parish priest in Chalchihuites. He was noted for his pastoral zeal and capacity to organize the parish. He founded a workshop for Catholic workers and a school. He spent a great part of his time on the catechesis of children and adults and was very fervent in his Eucharistic adoration. He is reported to have said, "Lord, I want to be a martyr; though I am your unworthy ...

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Saints of the Cristero War, Saints of the Cristero War - Luis Batíz Sainz, Saints of the Cristero War - Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán, Saints of the Cristero War - Agustín Caloca, Saints of the Cristero War - Román Adame Rosales, Saints of the Cristero War - Atilano Cruz Alvarado

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Astral Light (Occult) The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle of Kosmos (the third being Life, of which it is the vehicle) to the Linga Sharira or the Astral Double in man.

A subtle Essence visible only to a clairvoyant eye, and the lowest but one (viz., the earth), of the Seven Akasic or Kosmic Principles. Eliphas Levi calls it the great Serpent and the Dragon from which radiates on Humanity every evil influence. This is so; but why not add that the Astral Light gives out nothing but what it has received; that it is the great terrestrial crucible, in which the vile emanations of the earth (moral and physical) upon which the Astral Light is fed, are all converted into their subtlest essence, and radiated back intensified, thus becoming epidemics -  moral, psychic and physical. Finally, the Astral Light is the same as the Sidereal Light of Paracelsus and other Hermetic philosophers. "Physically, it is the ether of modern science.

Metaphysically, and in its spiritual, or occult sense, ether is a great deal more than is often imagined. In occult physics, and alchemy, it is well demonstrated to enclose within its shoreless waves not only Mr. Tyndall’s ‘promise and potency of every quality of life’, but also the realization of the potency of every quality of spirit. Alchemists and Hermetists believe that their astral, or sidereal ether, besides the above properties of sulphur, and white and red magnesia, or magnes, is the anima mundi, the workshop of Nature and of all the Kosmos, spiritually, as well as physically.

The ‘grand magisterium’ asserts itself in the phenomenon of mesmerism, in the ‘levitation’ of human and inert objects; and may be called the ether from its spiritual aspect. The designation astral is ancient, and was used by some of the Neo-platonists, although it is claimed by some that the word was coined by the Martinists. Porphyry describes the celestial body which is always joined with the soul as ‘immortal, luminous, and star-like’. The root of this word may be found, perhaps, in the Scythic Aist-aer - which means star, or the Assyrian Istar, which, according to Burnouf has the same sense." (Isis Unveiled.)

(See also: Astral Light, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

The last third of Keyes' life took him deeply into spirituality and the personal growth arena. He was older than many of those around him and many of those he influenced. He spoke in a younger idiom than might be expected of one who was born in 1921, expressing many of his concepts using terms such as "uptight" and "headspace" that those of the time might have considered "hippie" in nature. In 1970, just shy of his 50th birthday, he traveled to the Esalen Institute in California and enrolled in two workshops there. He then returned to ...

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Ken Keyes Jr., Ken Keyes Jr. - Early years, Ken Keyes Jr. - Childhood and adolescence, Ken Keyes Jr. - College military service and a new family, Ken Keyes Jr. - Polio and quadriplegia, Ken Keyes Jr. - The first book, Ken Keyes Jr. - Resuming life, Ken Keyes Jr. - Divorce and remarriage, Ken Keyes Jr. - Awakening, Ken Keyes Jr. - Living Love years, Ken Keyes Jr. - Going west and the Living Love Center in Berkeley, Ken Keyes Jr. - Cornucopia in Kentucky, Ken Keyes Jr. - On retreat in Santa Cruz, Ken Keyes Jr. - Coos Bay Oregon and the Ken Keyes College, Ken Keyes Jr. - Final years, Ken Keyes Jr. - Influence and legacy, Ken Keyes Jr. - Published works, Ken Keyes Jr. - Autobiography, Ken Keyes Jr. - Nutrition, Ken Keyes Jr. - Personal growth, Ken Keyes Jr. - Politics and futurism

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The Bruderhof movement has continued to grow, and membership is more than 2500. The largest Bruderhof has over four hundred members; the smallest has less than twenty. Most communities have a nursery, kindergarten, school, communal kitchen, laundry, various workshops, and offices. Bruderhof life is built around the family, though there are also many single members. Children are an important part of each community and participate in most communal gatherings. Disabled and elderly members are loved and cared for within the community and par ...

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Bruderhof Communities, Bruderhof Communities - Beliefs and spiritual roots, Bruderhof Communities - History, Bruderhof Communities - Bruderhof today, Bruderhof Communities - Involvement in the wider community, Bruderhof Communities - Bruderhof enterprises

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Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika's themes celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna ("Z") grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. The poverty of postwar Europe and political oppression under the Russian occupation created a fierce political consciousness in Z, so when the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956 she became o ...

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Zsuzsanna Budapest, Zsuzsanna Budapest - Biography, Zsuzsanna Budapest - Books, Zsuzsanna Budapest - External link

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All NLP literature refers to the altering of one's neurology through the neural pathways of the senses and the neural circuits of the brain. Most current NLP literature mentions no more than the reprogramming of mental habits and associations. However, the neurological concept engrams is used by some NLP theorists to explain how NLP works [5][6](Drenth 2003; Levelt 1995). Some practitioners theorize that NLP processes can be explained through the neurological concepts of programming and reprogramming engrams (Sinclair 1992). Within N ...

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Neuro-linguistic programming, Neuro-linguistic programming - Overview, Neuro-linguistic programming - Foundational Assumptions, Neuro-linguistic programming - NLP and Theory, Neuro-linguistic programming - Common Techniques and Practices, Neuro-linguistic programming - NLP Modeling, Neuro-linguistic programming - Fundamentals, Neuro-linguistic programming - Presuppositions, Neuro-linguistic programming - The B.A.G.E.L. Model, Neuro-linguistic programming - Eye accessing cues body cues and NLP representational systems, Neuro-linguistic programming - Meta-model and Milton Model, Neuro-linguistic programming - Varying Concepts, Neuro-linguistic programming - Background and Applications, Neuro-linguistic programming - Background, Neuro-linguistic programming - Applications, Neuro-linguistic programming - Scientific analysis of NLP, Neuro-linguistic programming - Criticism, Neuro-linguistic programming - False claims to science, Neuro-linguistic programming - Pseudoscience, Neuro-linguistic programming - Ethical Concerns, Neuro-linguistic programming - Questionable Applications, Neuro-linguistic programming - Cult characteristics, Neuro-linguistic programming - Developers

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