Groups

  • Ancient Mysteries Diaologue and Debate
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    Ancient Mysteries Diaologue and Debate
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a place for the continuing and deeper discussion of Ancient Mysteries. All conversations and topics relevant to this topic are desired.
  • The Soulmate Project
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    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
  • Interfaith Perspectives
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    Interfaith Perspectives
    Status: Member
    Description: This is an interfaith group who's members are from different spiritual paths and who share their perspectives on various religious topics. Proselytizers need not apply (our first rule) -- there is a difference between sharing your faith's perspective and trying to convince another participant to switch to your faith. At the same time, the emphasis is on discussing what you do believe and / or practice, not on what you don't believe, as we are not a debate group (we are not into wrong making, and this is our second rule.) Our third rule is to share page space in the discussion threads, to allow others to participate, the same way it is done with in-person group discussions.
  • C.S.Lewis Group
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    C.S.Lewis Group
    Status: Member
    Description: Clive Staples Lewis wrote prolifically about Christian faith, both fiction and non-fiction. This group is to give Lewis fans a chance to share discussions about his books, about the impact they have made on their lives, and about their continuing significance. This is a group for like-minded people who appreciate Lewis.
  • The Toltec Nagual
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    The Toltec Nagual
    Status: Member
    Description: Explore both practical and esoteric techniques and processes to progress on your path in the most elegant way possible. While the back drop is Toltec Nagualism, all spiritual paths to the Ultimate Freedom are welcome. First brought out of secrecy by Carlos Castaneda, and then further expounded by naguals and authors such as Theun Mares, don Miguel Ruiz and his Four Agreements, and Kristopher Raphael, the Toltec Path offers an accelerated journey to freedom and enlightenment.
  • Unitarian Community
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    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
  • Bnet Book Club
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    Bnet Book Club
    Status: Member
    Description: <b>What are you currently reading?</b> </br></br> This discussion group is open to all faiths, all political ideologies, all PEOPLE to discuss your favorite reads! <br /><br /> How did a book solidify your ideas, or serve to transform them? <br /><br /> One book per thread, please. If you see a thread already devoted to a book you're interested in, feel free to jump in! Don't see a book you're interested in? Start a new one! <br /><br /> Please feel free to state why an author's work either supports or detracts from your belief. Healthy discussion, courteous discourse and debate with civility in mind are more than welcome. Posts that lead to proselytizing and/or attempts to convert will be reported and repeat offenders will be discouraged. <br /><br />This does NOT mean religious works are unwelcome by any means. There is a lot of value in religious, spiritual and other forms of literature. But no soap boxes or street corner preachers, K? ;) <br /><br /> Some more food for thought..... At times we all need a little "mind candy".... Whether you call it light fiction, pulp fiction or sheer escapism, not all books we discuss here need be excluded to "heavy" lifting or require a lot of mental exercise! There's nothing wrong with interspersing more "serious" work with popular fiction. :) Our greatest, most universal truths can usually be found within the boundaries of imagination and fiction if only because said boundaries can be stretched and expanded beyond our current limits of reality.
  • 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.