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For years, manifesting has long been confined to the same New Age territory as astrology, visions of angels, and reincarnation, full of pseudoscience and platitudes. But, in fact, the practice of ...
Astral projection (also known as astral travel, soul journey, soul wandering, spiritual journey, spiritual travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) [1] [2] that assumes the existence of a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light, through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout ...
Ātman (/ ˈ ɑː t m ə n /; Sanskrit: आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or an impersonal (it) witness-consciousness within each individual.
[table-of-contents] stripped “Anything is possible if you set your mind to it.” “If you can believe it, you can do it.” “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue ...
In Jainism, self realization is called Samyak darshan (meaning right perception) in which a person attains extrasensory and thoughtless blissful experience of the soul. In the Hindu understanding, self-realization is liberating knowledge of the true self, either as the permanent undying Purusha or witness-consciousness , which is atman (essence ...
Ātman and atta refer to a person's "true self", a person's permanent self, absolute within, the "thinker of thoughts, feeler of sensations" separate from and beyond the changing phenomenal world. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The term Ātman is synonymous with Tuma , Atuma and Attan in early Buddhist literature, state Rhys David and William Stede, all in the ...
The nondualism of Advaita, relies on the Hindu concept of Ātman which is a Sanskrit word that means "essence" [59] or "real self" of the individual; [60] [61] it is also appropriated as "soul". [60] [62] Ātman is the first principle, [63] the true self of an individual
Theosophy presents a more sophisticated and complex cosmology than Spiritualism, although coming out of the same general milieu. H. P. Blavatsky developed a highly original cosmology, according to which the human race (both collectively and through the succession of individual reincarnation and spiritual evolution) passes through a number of Root Races, beginning with the huge ethereal and ...