Groups

  • The Soulmate Project
    Name:
    The Soulmate Project
    Category: Relationships
    Status: Member
    Description: Finding true, soulful love is not a destination, its a journey. A real and lasting relationship with a spiritual soul mate requires inner work and outer preparation. It calls us to GET READY for love. Explore a multi-faceted spiritual approach for inviting true love into your life! We will: * Share love stories * Focus on self love and embracing ourselves * Pray for love Also, you can Join the Soulmate Project group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=137493752956984&ref=ts
  • Unitarian Community
    Name:
    Unitarian Community
    Status: Member
    Description: A meeting place where all who worship the One God will feel welcomed and loved. Many draw a circle to shut us out; We are called Heretics, rebels, outcasts, and more. The Unitarian Community though has the wit to know; We'll draw a circle to take them in. It does not matter whether you affirm or deny, the One is still the One. We have Faith that the ONE is for All of Us
  • Mysticism in World Religions
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    Mysticism in World Religions
    Status: Member
    Description: Every religion is made up of two wings, the orthodoxy and mysticism. The word orthodox from the Greek means “having the right opinion” from orthos = right, true or staight, and doxa =opinion, praise, related to dokein which means thinking. Accordingly the word orthodoxy typically means adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion. The word mysticism (from the Greek mystikos, an initiate of a mystry religion). This initiate is in the pursuit of communion with, identity with or conscious awareness of an ultimate Reality, Divinity, Spiritual Truth or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight. Mysticism usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture that experience or awareness. Mystic traditions generally form sub-currents within larger religious traditions - such as Kabbalah within Judaism , Sufism, within Islam, Vedanta within Hinduism, Christian mysticism within Christianity, Zen (Ch’an) within mainstream Buddhism and Taoism. The term '"mysticism'" is used to refer to beliefs and practices which go beyond the liturgical and devotional forms of worship of mainstream faith, often by seeking out inner or esoteric meanings of conventional religious doctrine. For example, Kabbalah (based in Judaism) seeks out deeper interpretations of the Torah, Sufism (in Islam) extends and amplifies the teachings of the Quran in the spirit of universal love, Vedanta reaches for the inner teachings of Hindu philosophy encapsulated in the Vedas. Mystics hold that there is a deeper or more fundamental state of existence beneath the observable, day-to day world of phenomena, and that in fact the ordinary world is superficial or epiphenomenal. This group, is for the mystics from every religion in order to reach this One and Universal fundamental state of existence in All the religions of the World.