Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
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Personal development
Personal development or self improvement consists of activities that develop a person's capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, and enhance quality of life and the realization of dreams and aspirations.
Spiritual identity development and recognition
Meaning of life
Meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general.
These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and explications, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.
Supernatural
Phenomena or entities that are not subject to the laws of nature.
Concepts in the supernatural domain are closely related to concepts in religious spirituality and occultism or spiritualism.
Transcendentalism
Philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in New England.
It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time.
Image of God
Concept and theological doctrine in Christianity, as well as in Judaism.
The human likeness to God can also be understood by contrasting it with that which does not image God, i.e., beings who, as far as we know, are without this spiritual self-awareness and the capacity for spiritual / moral reflection and growth.
Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy is a spiritualist movement founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience.
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, Some of the literature regarding Steiner's work in these various fields: Goulet, P: "Les Temps Modernes?", L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, December 1982, pp. 8–17; Architect Rudolf Steiner at GreatBuildings.com; Rudolf Steiner International Architecture Database; Brennan, M.: Rudolf Steiner ArtNet Magazine, 18 March 1998; Blunt, R.: Waldorf Education: Theory and Practice – A Background to the Educational Thought of Rudolf Steiner.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality.
New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.
Swami Vivekananda
Indian Hindu monk, philosopher and author.
Born into an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family of Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality.
Biodynamic agriculture
Form of alternative agriculture based on pseudo-scientific and esoteric concepts initially developed in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner .
It treats soil fertility, plant growth, and livestock care as ecologically interrelated tasks, emphasizing spiritual and mystical perspectives.