The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality:
Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality,Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992. an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their own being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2
Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii
Introductory topics Paranormal Extra-sensory perception Near-death experience Parapsychology (Paraphysics) Anomalous cognition Claims of parapsychology History of parapsychology Precognition Psychokinesis Remote viewing Uri Geller Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Free will Idealism Materialism Metaphysics Mechanism Mind-body dualism Mind-body problem Nondualism Noumenon Phenomenalism Phenomenon Philosophy of mind Philosophy of religion Philosophy of science Reductionism Spiritualism Skepticism Truth Vitalism Religion Agnosticism Animism Atheism Cult Faith Gnosticism God Goddess Higher consciousness Monotheism Mythology Neo-Pantheism New religious movement Pantheism Polytheism Prayer Religious naturalism Soul Spiritism Spiritual being Science Altered state of consciousness Brain Chaos theory Chemistry Cognitive psychology Consciousness Magical thinking Neuropsychology Odic force Paraphysics Parapsychology Physics Pseudoscience Psychiatry Psychology Quantum mechanics Superstition Unconscious mind Spirituality Esotericism Ietsism Karma Meditation Merkabah Mysticism New Age Occultism Reincarnation Subtle body
Eastern
Esotericism and mysticism
Shabda Eckankar Harold Klemp Quan Yin Method Suma Ching Hai Sant Mat Baba Sawan Singh Radha Soami Satsang Beas Sant Baljit Singh Sant Kirpal Singh Sant Thakar Singh Shiv Dayal Singh Surat Shabda Yoga Techniques of Knowledge Prem Rawat
Other topics Chakra Ajna / Mind's eye / Third eye Anahata Bindu Manipura Muladhara Sahasrara Subud, or Susila Budhi Dharma Swadhisthana Vishuddha Kundalini energy Planes of existence Tantra The Urantia Book Yoga
Philosophy and religion Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism Theravada Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) Zen Hinduism Bhakti yoga Jnana Yoga Karma yoga List of sutras Śruti Smriti Tantra Upanishads Vedanta Yoga I Ching Sikhism The Sikh Gurus Guru Granth Sahib Sikh religious philosophy List of Sikhism-related topics Taoism Lao Zi Dao De Jing Taiji Universal Dialectic Yin Yang The Urantia Book
Paths
Inner path "Inner path", as a spiritual or religious concept, is referred to in: Spiritual paths Involution (Meher Baba) Eckankar Salik Burhaniya Gilgul Nizari Sulook Involution (esoterism) Ordre Reaux Croix Universal Life Surat Shabd Yoga or Sant Mat
Left-hand path Left-hand path and right-hand path Black art Black magic Necromancy Satanism Baphomet Church of Satan Luciferianism Philosophical Satanism Satan Satanic panic Satanic ritual abuse Anton LaVey Vampire Temple of Set
Magic and occult Aleister Crowley The Book of Thoth Magick Chaos magic Eliphas Levi Enochian magic Goetia Grimoire Necronomicon Hoodoo Magic Occultism Pentagram Quareia Ritual magic Santería Seid Thelema Vodou
Martial arts Martial arts List of martial arts List of martial arts weapons Neijia Baguazhang Xingyiquan Tai chi
New Age Age of Aquarius New Age List of New Age topics Qigong
People Helena Blavatsky Edgar Cayce Evelyn Underhill G. I. Gurdjieff Rudolf Steiner Ken Wilber Giuliano Kremmerz
Spiritual and occult practices
Concentration Astral projection Dhikr Meditation Muraqaba Prayer Remote viewing Yoga
Divination Astrology Augur Cartomancy Cleromancy Divination Dowsing Pendulum Fortune-telling Geomancy Haruspex I Ching Omen Tarot reading
Other Lucid dream Out-of-body experience
Western
Religion, esotericism, and mysticism Anthroposophy Christian mysticism Christian mystics Esotericism Hermeticism List of occultists Mysticism Salvation Spiritualism Western mystery tradition
Organizations AMORC FUDOFSI FUDOSI Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Illuminates of Thanateros Knights Templar Ordo Templi Orientis Subud List of general fraternities
People Constant Chevillon Dion Fortune Max Heindel Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers Baron Carl Reichenbach Rudolf Steiner Osho
Rosicrucianism Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) Fraternitas Rosae Crucis Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Ordo Templi Orientis Rosicrucian Fellowship Scottish Rite Freemasonry Societas Rosicruciana
Occultism and practical mysticism Alchemy Faith healing Servants of the Light
Neopaganism Neopaganism Paganism Rule of Three (Wiccan) Wicca
Christianity Catholicism Christian mysticism Christian Science Mount Athos Orthodoxy
Esoteric Christianity Anthroposophy Christian vegetarianism Theosis Hesychasm Gregory Palamas Philokalia
Egyptian mythology
Islam
Sufism Dhikr Lataif-e-Sitta Muraqaba Qawwali Sama Sufi cosmology Sufi texts Sufi whirling
Judaism Kabbalah (also spelled Qabalah, QBLH)
See also
Involution List of occult terms Outline of religion Synchronicity
References