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A. Afterlife: (or life after death) A generic term referring to a purported continuation of existence, typically spiritual and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. Agnosticism: the view that the existence of God or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Ahimsa: A religious principle of non-violence and respect for all life.
Yama, the god of death, is at the top of the outer rim. The outer rim shows the Twelve Nidānas doctrine. Saṃsāra ( Devanagari: संसार) is a Pali and Sanskrit word that means "wandering" [1] [2] as well as "world," wherein the term connotes "cyclic change" [3] or, less formally, "running around in circles." Saṃsāra is referred to ...
Spirituality can be defined generally as an individual's search for ultimate or sacred meaning, and purposein life.[15] Additionally it can mean to seek out or search for personal growth, religious experience, belief in a supernatural realm or afterlife, or to make sense of one's own "inner dimension".
For theosophists, spiritual death stems from sinfulness, and equals the death of the soul, or separation between one's higher and lower nature, or between the soul and the body. Here is a quote from Blavatsky : "While yet in the body which has lost its higher “Soul” through its vices, there is still hope for such a person.
A mantra ( Pali: mantra) or mantram ( Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. [2] [3] Some mantras have a syntactic structure and a ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as ...
The following is a list of symbols associated with the occult. This list shares a number of entries with the list of alchemical symbols as well as the list of sigils of demons .
The word ayahuasca has been variously translated as "liana of the soul", "liana of the dead", and "spirit liana". [17] In the cosmovision of its users, the ayahuasca is the vine that allows the spirit to wander detached from the body, entering the spiritual world, otherwise forbidden for the alive. In Brazil it is sometimes called hoasca or oasca.