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Confessions of St. Augustine. Spiritual reading is a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness.. Spiritual reading is devoted to the reading of lives of saints, writings of Doctors and the Fathers of the Church, theological works written by holy people, and doctrinal writings of Church authorities.
This spiritual practice is called "divine reading" or "spiritual reading" – i.e. lectio divina. Benedict wrote "Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brethren should have specified periods of manual labor as well as for prayerful reading [ lectio divina ]."
According to Orbach, the site is where she mentally and spiritually digs for discoveries: she is simultaneously the mound being dug, the digger, the methods, and the findings. Orbach invented a character called Mound Hacker, who leaves ostraca at archeological sites and maps them on Google Earth.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Rudolf Steiner developed exercises aimed at cultivating new cognitive faculties he believed would be appropriate to contemporary individual and cultural development. . According to Steiner's view of history, in earlier periods people were capable of direct spiritual perceptions, or clairvoyance, but not yet of rational thought; more recently, rationality has been developed at the cost of ...
Municipal records confirmed that Féret conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago. The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness ...
Ḥāl (pl. aḥwāl), translated "spiritual state", appears many times within Sufi texts as the opposite and complement to maqam. [2] As an early authority on Sufism, Ali al-Hujwiri in his book Kashf al-Mahjub , defines Hal as "something that descends from God into a man’s heart, without his being able to repel it when it comes, or to ...
Excerpt from Waking Up read by Sam Harris on his podcast.. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation.