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Channeling and Channelers 2008-10-26 09:29:00 Channeling evolved from Spiritualist mediumship, you could say, by way of Theosophy.The religion of Spiritualism, which had its heyday in the 19th Century, involves communication with dead people through 'mediums', said to be gifted individuals with psychic powers that enable them to contact those who have 'passed over' into the after-life.While mediumship generally involves communication with dea Read more:Channeling
Contemporary Spirituality: Esoteric Religion - 4 2008-10-24 19:27:00 Subversion and transformationEsoteric religion deviates from standard, conventional religion, whilst at the same time asserting the 'truth' of all religions as universal.The exoteric mainstream would be the monotheistic, Abrahamanic religions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, as well as conventional Buddhism, Hinduism and any other major religion. Contemporary
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Contemporary Spirituality: Esoteric Religion - 3 2008-10-24 19:13:00 The spiritual imaginationSpiritual concepts of 'All That Is' or 'Cosmic Consciousness' affect a situation in which imagination is only ever understood as pertaining to spiritual 'reality'.Spirituality
is generally understood through the communication of symbols to do with ideas pertaining to the apparent origins of, or motivations for thoughts, feelings and actions. These symbols are then meant to Read more:Contemporary
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Contemporary Spirituality: Esoteric Religion - 2 2008-10-24 18:50:00 Spiritual and religious codesMystical or metaphysical beliefs tend to involve a non-communicative, symbolic/imagistic, 'divine' language beyond mere faith in god or a supreme creator. The focus is centred in an experiential awareness, a recognition of unseen spiritual or cosmic forces or identities and/or 'awakened' or 'enlightened' emotions, morality, imagination, intellect or otherwise psychic o Read more:Contemporary
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Contemporary Spirituality: Esoteric Religion - 1 2008-10-24 18:21:00 'Esoterica'Contemporary
Western spirituality encompasses strands of mysticism, the beliefs of the New Age Movement, esotericism, the occult, appropriation of Eastern religion, neo-Paganism, neo-Shamanism, UFO cults, various New Religious Movements.Esotericism has to do with the 'secret teachings' of ancient Mystery Schools and can include Medieval and Renaissance Hermeticism, Gnosticism, occult ph Read more:Religion
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The Sphinx of the XIXth Century 2008-11-01 17:32:00 As Spiritualism reached its peak in the 1800s, an enigmatic, iconoclastic figure emerged: 'the Sphinx of the XIXth Century
', Russian aristocrat, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Blavatsky created a massive furore in the press with controversial books such as 'Isis Unveiled' and 'The Secret Doctrine'. In 1875 in New York, H. P. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society with Colonel Henry Steel Ol
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