Awakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and BeingSUNY Press, 16 lip 1999 - 388 Awakening to Spirit explores the nature of spirituality in the postmodern age as a personal journey within a living, responsive cosmos. In a world of multiple religious traditions, spiritual ambiguity, and widespread secular atheism, Lee Irwin offers a non-traditional view of spirituality that s intrinsic to personal growth and development. He presents Ten Principles that reflect stages of spiritual growth and culminate in a mystical encounter inherent to an experiential view of contemporary spirituality. Various physical, emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and psychic aspects of spiritual development are considered, leading to a discussion of spiritual maturity, old age, and self-renewal. Social relations, compassionate love, and responsible, mature human relationships are emphasized. Altered states of consciousness (dreams, visions, mystical experiences) are presented as a valid, necessary means for an understanding of Spirit, and many ideas from contemporary cosmology, process theology, parapsychology, and western esotericism are integrated into the book. |
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Opening Meditation 61 | 1 |
The Second Principle | 37 |
The Third Principle | 64 |
The Fourth Principle | 91 |
The Fifth Principle | 120 |
The Sixth Principle | 161 |
The Seventh Principle | 195 |
The Eighth Principle | 229 |
The Ninth Principle | 265 |
The Tenth Principle | 299 |
Closing Meditation | 329 |
The Ninety Aphorisms | 343 |
Notes | 359 |
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