While children’s spirituality develops in stages, their engagement with it and expression of it in the modern secular world begins to decline in the early teenage years as it becomes “obscured, overlaid or even repressed by socially constructed processes” that … Continue reading Spiritual Manifestations in Children
To avoid deceiving ourselves about whether we have actually realized some liberating truth, it is advised that we utilize the criteria of peace, assurance, gratitude and love to determine the validity of our thoughts. This means that unless we can … Continue reading Continuous Self-Improvement
Spiritual growth and refinement of the self is one long journey. What matters is “the right of every individual to work out his own philosophy of life to find his personal niche in creation.” The cognitive self is a crucial … Continue reading Self is a Reflexive Project
Research on religious identity should consider the content and consequences of individual’s future self-concepts, the dynamics through which possible identities (both desired and feared) are constructed and transmitted, as well as when, where, and why these imagined futures are brought … Continue reading Religions and Future Self
What would be most beneficial to the seeker is a first level concept of spiritual growth that is more formal and more relativizing, thus allowing room for all aspects of spiritual growth and taking seriously the various concepts of spiritual … Continue reading Fostering Personal growth via Spirituality
To reveal the more general nature of things, it is necessary for philosophy to analyze, overcome and eliminate the narrow limits of specific science, which is philosophy’s criticism on science. What is achieved on the basis of this criticism is … Continue reading Philosophy vs Science
Holiness is seen in the human being’s possession of an inviolate intrinsic value . Furthermore, Eriksson proposes that health is related to unity and holiness, and that holiness is a source of faith and hope—which, like love, are basic sources … Continue reading Holiness and Self-love
Here’s a short compendium of some of my favourite quotes from the works of Plato and Aristotle – Aristotle All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even … Continue reading Noteworthy Quotes from the works of Plato and Aristotle
Here’s a short compendium of some of my favorite excerpts from the works of Immanuel Kant- Universal Laws and Morality… I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become … Continue reading Noteworthy Quotes from the works of Immanuel Kant
Meta-psychiatry states that “The meaning and purpose of life is to come to know Reality”. When that orientation prevails in our life, when our concern is with awareness of spiritual reality, we become “beneficial presences” in the world. It is … Continue reading Meta-psychiatry and the Examined Life
