Lives in Spirit
Title | Lives in Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Harry T. Hunt |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791486443 |
Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both energized and distorted the spiritual development of key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or "this-worldly" mysticism. With its historical roots in the early Gnostics and Plotinus, this characteristically Western spirituality re-emerges with the secularization and loss of traditional religious belief of modernity. The lives, works, and direct experiences of Nietzsche, Emerson, Thoreau, Jung, Heidegger, Gurdjieff, Crowley, and contemporary feminist mysticism are considered in terms of transpersonal psychology (Almaas), the sociology of mysticism (Weber and Troeltsch), and contemporary psychoanalysis (Winnicott, Bion, Kohut). Spiritual or essential experience is seen as an inherent form of human intelligence, which while potentially and even increasingly impacted by personal dynamics and social crisis, is not reducible to them.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
Title | The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Underhill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN |
The Christian Lives by the Spirit
Title | The Christian Lives by the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Ignace de La Potterie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Holy Spirit |
ISBN | 9780818901973 |
Cultivating the Spirit
Title | Cultivating the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander W. Astin |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-11-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0470769335 |
Cultivating the Spirit THIS GROUNDBREAKING WORK IS BASED on a five-year study of how students change during the college years and the role college plays in facilitating the development of their spiritual qualities. Students, the authors argue, grapple with the big questions in life: Who am I? What are my values? Do I have a mission in life? Why am I in college? What kind of person do I want to be? What sort of world do I want to help to create? Their answers to these questions help determine their academic and career choices and are tied to the development of personal qualities such as empathy, caring, and social responsibility. The study finds that, while students' religious engagement declines during college, at the same time they become substantially more caring, tolerant, connected with others, and actively egaged in a spiritual quest. Spiritual growth also enhances academic performance, leadership development, and satisfaction with college. The study provides strong evidence pointing to specific experiences during college that can contribute to students' spiritual growth. The need for spiritual development in college is apparent. Two-thirds of the students in the study express a strong interest in spiritual matters, well over half report that their professors never encourage discussions of religious or spiritual matters, and about the same proportion report that professors never provide opportunities to discuss the purpose and meaning of life. Cultivating the Spirit aims to raise the awareness of academic administrators, faculty, and the public at large to the vital role that spirituality plays in student learning and development. Throughout the book, the authors identify strategies for enhancing students' development and encourage the academy to give greater priority to the spiritual aspects of students' educational and personal development.
Living in the Spirit
Title | Living in the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | George O. Wood |
Publisher | Gospel Publishing House |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9781607310792 |
Living in the Spirit offers a comprehensive compilation of perspectives concerning the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit. George Wood s ability to express orthodox Pentecostal theology in creative and refreshing ways is unique. He lucidly expresses his desire that Pentecostals resist being content with memories of powerful past encounters with the Spirit and instead seek to be overwhelmed by the Spirit and demonstrate the enduring evidence of His fullness.
Spirit Life Training
Title | Spirit Life Training PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Jorgensen |
Publisher | Destiny Image Publishers |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2011-06-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0768489733 |
Spirit Life Training is a workout program jammed full of proven, successful strategies to align your spirit, soul, and body to release the life and power that God put inside you. With exciting mind and body exercises designed to biblically align and strengthen your body, emotions, memory, intellect, imagination, and will, your recreated spirit self will rise up and express the rejuvenated and refreshed life of abundance God intended for you. Everything you need to overcome in this life you have received in seed form at the point of salvation. Spirit Life Training is the process of discovering, strengthening, and releasing this treasure God has given you.
The Social Life of Spirits
Title | The Social Life of Spirits PDF eBook |
Author | Ruy Blanes |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022608180X |
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.