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...ality''' is the sociological study of human spirituality. The Sociology of Spirituality may be demarcated into the Sociology of Religious Institutions (i.e. church Sociology of Spirituality -> Sociology of Religion | Sociology of Mystical Experience

...zens of concepts designed to advance your understanding of authentic human spirituality.

...onad|monadic spark]] (sometimes known as your "higher self" in [[Old World Spirituality|OWS]] systems). ...stand that the human form in no way represents any kind of "pinnacle." The human form is simply one among many.

<blockquote class="definition">'''Elite spirituality''' is spirituality created, or more often co-opted, by high-level members of the accumulating [[Colonized Spirituality]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Colonized Spirituality]]}}

...]] is designed to preserve [[The System]] by taking control of [[Authentic Spirituality]] [[Is a related LP term::Elite Spirituality| ]]

...https://press.lightningpath.org/product/rocket-scientists-guide-authentic-spirituality/.</ref> [[Authentic Spirituality]].

...re''' refers to the authentic core of human spirituality and ''authentic'' human religion, which is [[Connection Experience]]. [[Is a related LP term::Authentic Spirituality | ]]

...evelopment and Psychometric Testing of a Holistic Instrument to Assess the Human Spiritual Dimension.” ''Journal of Holistic Nursing''. United States: Sag ...evelopment and Psychometric Testing of a Holistic Instrument to Assess the Human Spiritual Dimension.” ''Journal of Holistic Nursing''. United States: Sag

...r [[Authentic Spirituality]]<ref>Lundskow, George. "Marxist Class-Cultural Spirituality in Theory and Practice." Critical Sociology 21 1-2 (2005): 213-41.</ref> [[Authentic Spirituality]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Authentic Spirituality]]}}

[[Authentic Spirituality]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Authentic Spirituality]]}} ...creed. This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. And without such moral foundations, we are h

<blockquote class="definition">Spirituality is the quality of being concerned with [[Healing]] and [[Connection]] betwe [[Spirituality]] > {{#ask:[[Is a subclass of::Spirituality]]}}

...efinition">A '''Path''' is any organized and institutionalized system of [[Human Development]] that provides an authentic [[Healing Framework|Healing]] and [[Is a related LP term::Authentic Spirituality} [[

...velations) is able to establish new understandings and new trends in human spirituality.

...]] and is bereft of any authentic and sophisticated incorporation of human spirituality. <ref>Chittick, William C., and Rumi. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual ...Bendeck. “The Decolonization of Psychology or the Science of the Soul.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 7, no. 2 (2021): 18–37. p. 22.</ref>

...arch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. <nowiki>https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2</nowiki>.</ref> </blockquote> ...” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 9 <nowiki>https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2</nowiki>.</ref>

===Colonization and Spirituality=== ...world is animate and sentient, and that much of the power for maintaining human well-being depends on relationship with beings that inhabit specific places

...group of disincarnate individuals (i.e, [[Spiritual Ego]]s or [[More-Than-Human Being]]s) who have agreed to assist you with tasks related to [[The Work]] ...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 13. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

# Human beings are capable of attaining immediate knowledge of that ground #In addition to their phenomenal egos, human beings possess a Transcendental Self which is of the same or like nature wi

...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 13. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref> [[Is a::More-Than-Human Being| ]]

...ence, and Redefinition.” Spirituality Studies 4, no. 2 (2018). https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume4-issue2-fall2018/files/assets/common/downloads/files/ Connection is an ongoing human concern. Through the centuries many [https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/i

Martin Prechtel is an author, artist, and teacher whose work focuses on spirituality, indigenous cultures, and the relationship between humans and the natural w Martin Prechtel is an author, artist, and teacher whose work focuses on spirituality, indigenous cultures, and the relationship between humans and the natural w

Any individual working to awaken the human mind, emancipate the human energy system, and ascend the [[Physical Unit]] to higher levels of [[Consc ...fy and oppress. In truth, The Forces of Light may be found in religion, in spirituality, and science, and in all institutions of this world, just as The Forces of

...f human behaviour.<ref>———. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Religion and Human Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2020.</ref ..., guidelines, norms, and scripts that control human behaviour for specific human purposes.

...tter place, is an outcome of [[Connection]]. People who pursue [[Authentic Spirituality]], people who have [[Connection Experiences]], sometimes are moved towards ...inding consistent with the notion that action is an outcome of [[Authentic Spirituality]]/[[Connection]]

...thentic Spirituality]]<ref>Sosteric. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press.</ref> [[Authentic Spirituality]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Authentic Spirituality]]}}

...ster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Mass Human Manipulation,” Under Review. https://www.academia.edu/34504691</ref>, are ...ay be divided into two sub-types, [[Esoteric Spirituality]] and [[Exoteric Spirituality]]

...nd fruitful (RELEEAF).<ref>Sosteric. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press. </ref> </blockquote> [[File:RSGAS.jpg|center|thumb|280x280px|Rocket Scientists Guide to Authentic Spirituality]]

...purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. '''On Spirituality'''

...ng Path sees pure and persistent [[Connection]] as the primary endpoint of human evolution and development and, because of [[Toxic Socialization]], [[Healin ...r ideas about human potential, human spirituality, and what it means to be human.

...wareness Reduction Mechanisms]]. We need liberation from our attachment to human drama. We need liberation from overconcern with sparkly rocks. We need libe

...evelopment and Psychometric Testing of a Holistic Instrument to Assess the Human Spiritual Dimension.” ''Journal of Holistic Nursing''. United States: Sag ...such a scale would facilitate the scientific study of the role of patient spirituality in medical care, since scientific inquiry is facilitated by an objective me

...https://press.lightningpath.org/product/rocket-scientists-guide-authentic-spirituality/.</ref> Sometimes union is with one's own [[Spiritual Ego]], and sometimes ...f><ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/vari

This dogma asserts there is a thread of universal wisdom that is present in human history<ref>Hanegraaff, Wouter J. ''Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected K [[Is a related term::Elite Spirituality| ]]

...w York: Doubleday, 1976.</ref>, the suppression of contemporary indigenous spirituality by Western Christian actors <ref>Govinda, Lama Anakarika. “The Ecstasy of

In Eastern spirituality, force is equated with yang and formation is equated with yin. In ancient E We should note that human expectation/human will/formation (and the way we apply force for that matter) may be manipula

In Eastern spirituality, force is equated with yang and formation is equated with yin. In ancient E We should note that human expectation/human will/formation (and the way we apply force for that matter) is manipulated

...d, and was quite dismissive of what he thought of as the naive and puerile spirituality of those with faith in a personal patriarch. ...eriority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.” <ref>Einstein, Albert. Th

...Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Human Manipulation,” https://www.academia.edu/34504691.</ref> ...Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Human Manipulation,” https://www.academia.edu/34504691

...onate, intelligent, AND aware. The Spiritual Ego is THAT element of the [[Human Psyche]] that exists independently of your [[Physical Unit]] and material r ==Structure of the Human Psyche==

...cal, emotional, and spiritual growth achieved while walking an [[Authentic Spirituality|authentic spiritual path]]. ...ave interfered with the spirituality of this planet, your understanding of spirituality will be superficial and even caricatured. You can learn more about The Syst

...of all creation.<ref> Mike Sosteric, “The Death of Newton: Consciousness, Spirituality, and the Second Scientific Revolution” 2019, https://www.academia.edu/114 In similar spirit, we also reject the popular presumption that all modes of human information processing are completely executed within the physiological bra

...gia]], and [[Pia Philosophia]]. The EGN has informed esoteric and exoteric spirituality and popular culture since. ...Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Human Manipulation,” Unpublished. https://www.academia.edu/34504691.</ref>

Religion and human spirituality is contested. A struggle goes on between grass-roots, egalitarian, progress === Indigenous Spirituality ===

...ne always implicating the other. As Hillman states, "any alteration in the human psyche resonates with a change in the psyche of the world. If he is right, [[Is a term::Authentic Spirituality| ]]

...those of the archangels and angels, and finally the material world and to human beings. This divine flow is the necessary sustenance of all existence, even ...flow of this divine sustenance is, according to the Zohar, the behavior of human beings, the people of Israel. Righteous deeds of man increase the divine fl

...Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Human Manipulation,” Unpublished. https://www.academia.edu/34504691.</ref> are ...suppresses human creativity in order to facilitate elite profiteering from human creativity.

<ref>Einstein quoted in Kuruvilla, Carol. “Albert Einstein On The Spirituality That Comes From Scientific Inquiry | HuffPost Religion.” HuffPost, March ...opy at <nowiki>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/word-god-is-product-of-human-weakness.html</nowiki></ref>

[[Indigenous Spiritualities]] > {{#ask:[[Is an::Indigenous Spirituality]]}} ...vers, lakes and rocks contained powerful spirits which might aid or hinder human beings. All of these sacred beings were called oki and those who had commu

...https://press.lightningpath.org/product/rocket-scientists-guide-authentic-spirituality/.</ref> The man said, "I am not actually a human being. I lived and taught on this mountain at the time of Kashyapa Buddha.

...oted and commented on by individuals who research connection and authentic spirituality, or who experience authentic connection events. ...y kind.<ref>Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. p. 12 https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.</ref>

...r goals," reduction in the belief that "more is better," and emergence of "spirituality of a universal and nondenominational nature characterized by the awareness ...the divine and human occurs at regeneration when the divine law enters the human will and becomes the active power in all of the self's determinations." <re

Many consider Connection Experience to be the core of human spirituality, at the authentic root of every religion. ...ons which have a common expression and which may have a common function in human action."<ref>Bourque, Linda, and Kurt Back. “Values and Transcendental Ex

...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 32. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref> ...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 29. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

...James]] to describe the often pathological pursuit of "happiness" through spirituality and religion. For James there is a peculiar type of individual who "refuses ...ke "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger") but this propensity is not "human nature." Rather, it is part of an ideological fabric, a [[Creation Template

...Hickel. “Capitalism and Extreme Poverty: A Global Analysis of Real Wages, Human Height, and Mortality since the Long 16th Century.” ''World Development'' ...ssociated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.

...icism]]'' but what is referred to on the [[Lightning Path]] as [[Authentic Spirituality]]. Underhill describes it in terms of its practical outcomes. ...ual artist is always trying to disclose to the race....[This] is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime experiences of the

...[[Existential Imperatives]]<ref>Lundskow, George. “Marxist Class-Cultural Spirituality in Theory and Practice.” Critical Sociology 21, no. 1–2 (2005): 213–4 ...umar, Shailendra, and Sanghamitra Choudhury. “Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances.” Cogent Social Sciences, 2020, 1–18

...''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 24. <nowiki>https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2</nowiki>.</ref> ......"<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://amzn.to/2l4UyR7</ref>

...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 10. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2. </ref> ...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 10. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2. </ref>

# Four [[purushaarthas]] (human pursuits)—''dharma, artha, kama,'' and ''moksha'' ...qualities, which are, in fact, the desires, choices, and affinities of the human mind. Nevertheless, Sanatana Dharma clarifies, emphasizes, and confirms in

...efensiveness, and transcendent joy<ref>Maslow, A.H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 1971.</ref> Maslow offered the following charact ...retrospective analysis of childhood peak experiences, asked master’s level human service class of approximately 60 individuals “Think of the most wonderfu

...d with spiritualism (rooted in "reasoning, hopefulness, mirth,benevolence, spirituality, reverence and universal tolerance."<ref>Prothero, Stephen. “From Spiritu

...n Jahng, Roberta Payne, "Spirituality and Health: The Role of Religion," ''Spirituality in Clinical Practice'' 1, no. 1 (2014): 42-50. 10.1037/scp0000006</ref> Mo ...ammation and decreased immunity.<ref>Cole, Steve W., "Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression: Mechanisms and Implications for Public Health," ''American

...Hadamard 2013; Watts 1971). Lightning has long been associated with human spirituality and connection experience. <ref>Miller, William R. 2004. “The Phenomenon

...Connection is the point of [[Connection Therapy]], the goal of [[Authentic Spirituality]], and the explicit purpose of the [[Lightning Path]]. The Goal of [[Human Development]], the goal of the [[Lightning Path]], is to nurture and create

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...mbeds his view of religion in his view of civilization and his view of the human psyche. ...t number of people these are strong enough to determine their behaviour in human society"<ref>Freud, Sigmund. ''The Future of an Illusion''. New York: Ancho

...nd Child: Dyadic and Family Systems Internal Working Models." Attachment & Human Development 7, no. 1 (2005): 51-65. DOI: 10.1080/14616730500039663 </ref ...ences may be context-dependent, especially in indigenous communities where spirituality often holds a strong cultural importance. An early imposition of adult role

...erritory where they could meet, socialize, co-opt and colonize [[Authentic Spirituality]], form networks, explore, update (and disseminate) [[Old Energy Creation T ...mystical attainment, whether in Masonry or elsewhere, is the union of the human with the divine consciousness." <ref>lomas, 2010, pp. 23.</ref>

...ed and erased as a consequences of the colonialists assault on [[Authentic Spirituality]] in all its forms. ...7ca79e3bea329179778605fcbf81 Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature] (p. 68). Kindle Edition. </ref>

...words. Interestingly, he sees "Hindus" and "Orientals" (Vedic and Buddhist spirituality) as providing a way back. He also suggests that the "upgrowth" of Women "wi ...escend through a [[World Self]] and a [[Race Self]] until actuating in the human brain and finally, on the 'outer side...take form and structure." Along the

"Writings on Islamic spirituality and mysticism began to appear in Arabic over a thousand years ago." <Ref>Er ...r fundamental tenets are, that nothing exists absolutely but GOD: that the human soul is an emanation from his essence, and, though divided for a time from

=== Early Theosophy - An elite attempt to suppress/control grass roots spirituality === Is classically neo-liberal in its view of human nature. When speaking of prayer, Blavatsky notes that prayer "(a) kills in

...1, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000077</ref><ref>Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich, Oliver Nelson, Joanna Collicutt, and Andreas Fink. “The Englis

On the nature of human spirituality and religion, Swami says ...systems...should be at once rejected....All mystery-mongering weakens the human brain... it is a striking fact, that the more modern the commentator, the g

Connection Therapy facilitates connection to deeper levels of the human psyche, as well as connection with "transpersonal" realities. Operationally ...earch.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 31. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref> In LP terms, connection

Reed, Pamela G. “Spirituality and Well-Being in Terminally Ill Hospitalized Adults.” ''Research in Nurs Rice, Julian. ''Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality''. University of New Mexico, 1998. <nowiki>https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E</nowiki>

..." "offer humans a conduit to the vital life force of Creation, or more-than-human power."<ref>Williams, Keith and Suzanne Brant. “Tending a Vibrant World: ...d contacting the supernatural world is evidently an ancient and widespread human practice."<ref>Harner, Michael J. “The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in E

...t Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> On the [[LP]], alignm ...the physical unit with Consciousness/God is a common theme in traditional spirituality of the authentic variety, though the expression of it is often overcomplica

Ichazo, Oscar. ''The Human Process of Enlightenment and Freedom''. New York: Arica Institute, 1976. James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/vari

[[Indigenous Spiritualities]] > {{#ask:[[Is an::Indigenous Spirituality]]}} ...fated woman fell into the lower water regions. Water-fowl rescued her; and human-like sea quadrupeds built an island for her on the Big Turtle's back out of

...Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S.” <nowiki>https://www.apa.org</nowiki>, 2021. <nowiki>ht Bender, Courtney. ''The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination''. Chicago: University of Chicago Pr

...t Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs.” ''Aotearoa New Zealand Social Wor The Seven Essential Needs are the foundations of human health and full [[Human Development]]. Failure to sufficiently meet essential needs leads to atroph