Groups

  • Inspiring Crafts
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    Inspiring Crafts
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for sharing holiday and other craft projects, both new and old. If you have any favorite craft books please tell us about those too. If someone would like to look after this group please do. I am no longer working for Beliefnet. Best wishes to you all and happy crafting.
  • Gratitude Circle
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    Gratitude Circle
    Status: Member
    Description: In September 2000, Beliefnet user dariaMcB started a gratitude prayer circle to give thanks for the end of the Montana fires and for cooler weather. It didn't take long for others to join the circle. This year, Beliefnet welcomes you to join us in giving thanks in a new gratitude circle--a place for sharing stories, photos, and videos. Connect with each other in this special group dedicated to honoring that simple expression, 'Thank You.'
  • The True Teachings of Jesus
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    The True Teachings of Jesus
    Status: Member
    Description: God, Jesus and the Bible are all about being diseased Free.The Bible is God's way of teaching us (his Children)about LIFE on Mother Earth without Death. Deadth is not God's will, but about dying with a disease. In God's Kingdom Their are NO diseases. Jesus is the Son of God,God Gave us his Son so he could Teach us how to live a clean Holy LIFE in a diseased world. God is not a God of diseases and a slow death, but a God of LIFE EVERLASTING.
  • Law of Attraction In Action
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    Law of Attraction In Action
    Status: Member
    Description: Learn to use the principles of the Law of Attraction in everyday life and really create the life of your dreams. Discuss day in and day out real life tips to help you better apply these principles. Experience Who You Really Are.
  • 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.
  • Meditation
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    Meditation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for guidance and encouragement for cultivating meditation skills and to increase understanding of the full richness of the practice of meditation and what it offers us. Get to know other people who are interested in meditation, and share and reflect on how it can help us experience greater clarity and balance in our lives.