Spiritual

'Spiritual'may refer to:

  • Spiritual (music), an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text
  • Lords Spiritual, clergymen of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
  • Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a demon may take temporary control of a human body
  • Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
  • Supernatural, refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding
  • A branch of the 13th-century Franciscans espousing poverty as obligatory.

Other articles related to "spiritual":

Drukpa Lineage - Contemporary Organisation - Name
... In March 2008, the spiritual head of the Drukpa Lineage, H.H ... The spiritual lineage be known throughout the world firmly and clearly as "Dongyu Palden Drukpa", meaning the Spiritual Lineage of the Glorious Dragons or simply the "Drukpa Lineage" ...
Eckankar
... It focuses on spiritual exercises claimed to enable practitioners to experience what its followers call "the Light and Sound of God." The personal experience of this spiritual ... It claims to provide a personal, unique and individual spiritual inner path to understanding of self as soul, and development of higher awareness "consciousness" and God ... an outdoor chapel, an administrative building, and the ECK Spiritual Campus are located at this site ...
Triratna Buddhist Community - Defining The Movement
... While the movement regards single-sex activities as important to spiritual growth, men and women are recognised as being equally able to practice and develop spiritually ... An emphasis on spiritual friendship ... is a strong emphasis on the sangha, and spiritual friendship based on shared values ...
Biosophy - Objectives
... integration among individuals based on their mutual interest in a spiritual purpose in life ... superstitions and dogmas with the cultivation of spiritual intelligence as the basis for the Religion of Freedom and Friendship ... national, racial and social prejudices who can work creatively for the growth of democracy, spiritual personal growth and world peace ...
Eknath Easwaran - Other Influence
... profiled, along with those of a variety of other spiritual teachers, in a book published in India entitled Meditation Masters and their Insights ... volume of work and the quality of his discourse suggest a man who has had a profound impact on the spiritual lives of many." Easwaran has been listed in reference works on ...

Famous quotes containing the word spiritual:

    “It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In the morning I awake, and find the old world, wife, babes, and mother, Concord and Boston, the dear old spiritual world, and even the dear old devil not far off. If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?—or, prior to that, answer me this, “Are you victimizable?””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)