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Wondering what some of the Spiritual terms you’ve heard are all about?  Here’s a quick Glossary of Spiritual Terms.

Spiritual: Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul.  Many would agree that one can be Spiritual and/or Religious, but they are not the same thing.

Psychic: A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

Clairvoyance: (From 17th century French with clair meaning “clear” and voyance meaning “visibility”) is the apparent ability to gain information about an object, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

Clairaudience: An auditory form of ESP paranormal information is received outside the range of normal perception through voices, whispers and auditory impressions.

Clairsentience: A general term for clairvoyance and clairaudience. Clairsentience typically occurs in the form of ESP through physical sensations or smells.

Intuitive: A person who possesses an apparent ability to acquire knowledge without a clear inference or the use of reason.

Medical Intuitive: In alternative medicine, a Medical Intuitive is a person who uses their intuition to find the cause of a physical or emotional condition.

Creator: A deity in a creation myth responsible for the creation of the world (or universe).  Also referred to as God, Higher Source, Great Spirit, The Universe, All That Is, et al

Divinity and divine: (Sometimes ‘the Divinity’ or ‘the Divine’) are broadly applied but loosely defined terms, used variously within different faiths and belief systems — and even by different individuals within a given faith — to refer to some transcendent or transcendental power, or its attributes or manifestations in the world.

Transcendental: Non-natural; existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

Shamanism: Shamanism refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. Practitioners of shamanism are known as shamans; an animistic faith having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans

Animistic: Attributing souls or spirits to animals, plants and other entities, in addition to humans. Common in Asian and Native American religions.

Vortex: (or vortexes or vortices) Areas of concentrated energy rising from the earth. Whether you agree with some vortex enthusiasts that the vortices are a portal for celestial and terrestrial spirits, you may feel a range of sensations from a slight tingling on exposed skin, to a vibration emanating from the ground when you encounter a vortex.

The Three Principles: Based in Hinduism, the three cornerstone moral and ethical values are self-control, non-injury and truthfulness.

Alternative Healing or Alternative Medicine:  As used in the modern Western world, encompasses any healing practice “that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine.”

Metaphysics: The philosophical study of being and knowing; the branch of philosophy investigating principles of reality transcending those of any particular science.

Aura: a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object like the halo or aureola of religious art. The depiction of such an aura in religious art usually connotes a person of particular power or holiness.

Chakra: a Sanskrit word meaning circle or wheel; a nexus of biophysical energy residing in the human body, aligned in an ascending column from the base of the spine to the top of the head.

Karma: is the concept of “action” or “deed” in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect.

Are there any other terms or concepts about which you’ve been curious?  Post them in our comments and get in on the Spiritual conversation!

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