Experiences With Spiritual Reality

Author : John Jensen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781413416350

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Experiences with Spiritual Reality by John Jensen Pdf

As we align our consciousness with God's action in us, we place ourselves in reach of daily miracles. In Beginning Your Spiritual Journey, traditional spirituality from "the science of the saints" joins with advances in the understanding of consciousness from New/Old Age religion and modern psychology. Psychologist, former Catholic priest, and student of religions John Jensen explains how to approach the presence of God and change one's life to align with God's encompassing activity. He asks readers to understand why they want to pursue a spiritual life, and then to engage consciously in a learning process about the nature of God and Soul. Grounding the process in direct experience offers a way to assess progress as it crosses slowly into the intangible. The book addresses from many angles the common difficulty of discerning what's real and true, and the importance of finding a personal spiritual guide to work with on the inner planes as well as outwardly. It explains the critical role of spiritual exercises and the essential daily discipline of withdrawing consciousness away from all forms of negativity-moral, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral--and redirecting it toward God.

Author : Marc Foley, OCD
Publisher : ICS Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781939272799

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The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality by Marc Foley, OCD Pdf

Reading St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St. John presents seems so stark and painful that one might be tempted to just close the book and stop reading. On top of that, both the process St. John describes and the language he uses can be confusing and intimidating. The language of 16th-century scholasticism is not easily understood by 21st-century readers living in a completely different culture and context. Perhaps even more challenging is that fact that our modern lives, filled with the non-stop clutter of social media and technology, as well as comfort and ease, do not prepare most of us well to honestly look into our own depths to see who we are and who we are intended to become as fully alive human beings. Fortunately we now have this helpful book to guide us to that full life which St. John invites us to in The Dark Night. Father Marc Foley here combines his own theological and psychological background, as well as his experience as a spiritual guide, to help modern readers understand the experiences, challenges, and graced events of the purifying nights of sense and spirit. In addition to exploring certain key terms that John uses in Spanish and their meaning in the saint’s time and today, Father Marc includes pertinent selections from a wide range of writers, ancient to modern, that illustrate the themes he covers. Each chapter concludes with insightful questions for personal reflection or group discussion. The book has a comprehensive index.

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781786781925

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Spiritual Science by Steve Taylor Pdf

It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Spiritual Science offers a third alternative: a spiritual view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain. The standard model of science has had little success in explaining such areas as human consciousness, the connection between the mind and the body, altruism and ‘anomalous’ phenomena such as near-death experiences, psi phenomena (such as telepathy) and spiritual experiences. But from a ‘panspiritist’ point of view – which sees spirit or consciousness as a fundamental essence of reality – it is possible to make sense of all these things. Steve Taylor puts forward the evidence for a spiritual view of reality, drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures. He systematically shows how a ‘panspiritist’ view can explain many puzzling aspects of science and the world, including evolution and the origins of life, and a wide range of other phenomena such as quantum physics, the placebo effect, precognition and neuroplasticity. Spiritual Science offers a new vision of the world that is compatible with both modern science and ancient spiritual teachings. It provides a more accurate and holistic account of reality than conventional science or religion, integrating a wide range of phenomena that are excluded from both. After showing how the materialist worldview demeans the world and human life, Spiritual Science offers a brighter alternative – a vision of the world as sacred and interconnected, and of human life as meaningful and purposeful. Spiritual Science explains how the standard materialist model of reality developed, and turned into a belief system. This belief system can only function by denying (or explaining away) a whole range of phenomena that are part of human experience. It is possible to be scientific without adopting this belief system – in fact, it is much more rational to do so.

Author : Nadjeschda Taranczewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1781333246

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Conscious You by Nadjeschda Taranczewski Pdf

Takes you on a journey of self-discovery that leads towards deeper self-awareness, self-acceptance and ownership

Author : Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307719195

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Spiritual Solutions by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Pdf

Life is full of challenges, both big and small. Spirituality is here to offer solutions. Over the course of his career as physician, teacher, and bestselling author, Deepak Chopra has received thousands of questions from people facing every kind of challenge. They have asked how to lead more fulfilling lives, how to overcome relationship problems and personal obstacles. What’s the best way to deal with a passive-aggressive friend? Can a stagnant career be jump-started? In a world full of distractions and stress, how does one find time for meditation? Hidden among all of these questions are answers waiting to be uncovered. In this groundbreaking book, Chopra shows you how to expand your awareness, which is the key to the confusion and conflict we all face. “The secret is that the level of the problem is never the level of the solution,” he writes. By rising to the level of the solution in your own awareness, you can transform obstacles into opportunities. Chopra leads the reader to what he calls “the true self,” where peace, clarity, and wisdom serve as guides in times of crisis. For Chopra, spirituality is primarily about consciousness, not about religious dogma or relying on the conventional notion of God. “There is no greater power for success and personal growth than your own awareness.” With practical insight, Spiritual Solutions provides the tools and strategies to enable you to meet life’s challenges from within and to experience a sense of genuine fulfillment and purpose.

Author : Tolly Burkan,Peggy Dylan Burkan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0935616098

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Guiding Yourself Into a Spiritual Reality by Tolly Burkan,Peggy Dylan Burkan Pdf

Author : Keith Michael Hancock
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781647180942

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Mystical Experience of Reality by Keith Michael Hancock Pdf

The Mystical Experience of Reality is a well known non-biological, non-human historical phenomena that engulfed the author as a 14year-old several times every year until his late thirties, filling him with the experience of a Reality in which all things known and unknown exist at Its behest, guarding, guiding, accepting everything that exists separately, personally, individually. It is benign and uninterested in human wants or constructs such as religions, politics, ideologies. The author is what Buddhism would call a pratyakabuddha, a silent buddha whose experience of this Reality was spontaneous, without having been requested or by given human help - a mystic. He insists the experience of Reality is caught, not taught, that it cannot be evangelized or proselytized, worshipped or used. Reality rules. Its ways are not our ways. Our ways are not Reality's. Jesus failed. Religions are not spiritual, just emotional. So the book started with a Blog, mysticexperiences.net for the author to examine himself and existence in accordance with the way of Reality. Accordingly, he found nothing in humanity worth studying. This book is a summation of four years of using writing the blog to explore the awareness given him by his mystical experiences in the hope it will add to the literature on the subject, which is now being more seriously studied around the world than it has ever been by physicists, metaphysicists, philosophers, theologians, psychologists, even cosmologists - and especially Seekers, for whom the author has special messages for their unique hunger and thirst. The book also seeks to pass on Reality's message to the author: All is well.

Author : Jules Evans
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782118770

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The Art of Losing Control by Jules Evans Pdf

Humans have always sought ecstatic experiences - moments where they go beyond their ordinary self and feel connected to something greater than them. Such moments are fundamental to human flourishing, but they can also be dangerous. Beginning around the Enlightenment, western intellectual culture has written off ecstasy as ignorance or delusion. But philosopher Jules Evans argues that this diminishes our reality and denies us the healing, connection and meaning that ecstasy can bring. He sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful. Along the way, he explores the growing science of ecstasy, to help the reader - and himself - learn the art of losing control. Jules' exploration of ecstasy is an intellectual and emotional odyssey balancing personal experience, interviews and readings from ancient and modern philosophers that will change the way you think about how you feel. From Aristotle and Plato, via the Bishop of London and Sister Bliss, radical jihadis and Silicon Valley transhumanists, The Art of Losing Control is a funny and life-enhancing journey through under-explored terrain.

Author : Paul Guggenheimer
Publisher : Brolga Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780909608194

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The Five Principles of Spiritual Reality by Paul Guggenheimer Pdf

The Five Principles of Spiritual Reality is a deeply profound and original work about the fundamental questions that have nagged humankind since the beginning of time: "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" Paul Guggenheimer invites us to look within and recognise all that we truly are; to acknowledge our link to divinity and allow our true selves to shine through. A fascinating and immensely readable book, The Five Principles of Spiritual Reality will change people's lives.

Author : Jan Johnson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830873319

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Meeting God in Scripture by Jan Johnson Pdf

Dallas Willard Center Book Award Finalist Jesus is speaking to us here and now. Lectio divina is a practice of Scripture reading that treats the Bible not only as a text to be examined, but also as the living Word of God spoken anew to us. Experienced Bible teacher Jan Johnson gives us forty Scripture meditations, organized topically, giving us the tools we need to practice lectio divina on our own. Each meditation can be used both individually and in group settings, and includes an introductory space of quiet along with an optional preparatory exercise; the full text of a passage from Scripture with explanations of unusual or important words, and with cultural and historical background as needed; cues to help us enter the text; space to contemplate the passage, respond to God in prayer and rest in his presence; and an exercise to "try on" one of the main ideas of the passage in our daily lives. Meeting God in Scripture moves us beyond merely understanding what the text meant in its original context to a direct spiritual encounter with Christ.

Author : Lydia A. Mitchell, Ph.d.,Lydia Anne Mitchell Ph. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1982206020

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Spiritual Reality by Lydia A. Mitchell, Ph.d.,Lydia Anne Mitchell Ph. D. Pdf

All of us have wondered at some point or another whether there is a deeper meaning to our everyday activities. Some of us may have even searched on a subconscious level for the missing component in our daily lives. The good news is that incorporating a sense of spirit into every day can fill missing gaps, expand our lives, and provide us with confidence and clarity in all decisions. Lydia A. Mitchell, PhD, shares an approachable and useful guide to developing spiritual awareness that shifts our focus away from an everyday view, enables us to see the magic within and around us, and transform the ordinary into extraordinary. Through simple methods, practical guidance and tools, and real-life stories, Dr. Mitchell helps us combine the spiritual and physical realities of life and consistently connect with the spirit to create a life that flows easily. Spiritual Reality: Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary shares guidance created to help all of us link with the internal spirit to increase joy, improve our outlook, and take control of our lives.

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307277275

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When God Talks Back by T.M. Luhrmann Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.

Author : Bob Frissell
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781583944837

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You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience by Bob Frissell Pdf

Too many people allow themselves to be limited by their ideas about themselves and the world around them. Bob Frissell reminds readers that they create their own reality through their consciousness and that improving this reality and living a fuller life is simply a matter of broadening one's perspectives. In this book, he shows people how to reconnect with their multidimensional selves and remake their lives.

Author : Steve Nolan,Margaret Holloway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137300935

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A-Z of Spirituality by Steve Nolan,Margaret Holloway Pdf

Spirituality is a multifaceted speciality; anyone who wants to understand it must look across a range of disciplines, which can often make it seem overwhelming and incomplete. This book will act as a reference resource for readers looking to develop their study of spirituality and its relevance to health and social care.

Author : M. Stoeber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230505520

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Reclaiming Theodicy by M. Stoeber Pdf

In Reclaiming Theodicy , Michael Stoeber explores various themes of theodicy - theology that defends God in the face of evil - by creatively developing a distinction between transformative and destructive suffering. Emphasising the importance of human compassion and illustrating various spiritual experiences of God that are healing, the book proposes a narrative of life within which one might understand suffering in relation to a personal God of ultimate power and love, and suggests basic principles toward developing a politics of compassion.