We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very successfully helped us understand physical reality, are not equipped to fathom the subtleties of deep inner experience. Each approach offers useful insights, but neither is sufficient. We urgently need new forms of spirituality appropriate to life in the twenty-first century.
Experimental Spirituality is the first in a series of five channelled books that offer an approach to spirituality designed for today’s seekers. Grounding spirituality in personal experience, the series proposes that each human being is not merely a combination of body and spirit, but a complex identity incorporating five layers. The implications are explored in detail throughout the series.
Experimental Spirituality introduces a rational, empirical approach to spiritual development. It suggests practical ways seekers may gain new insights into their life situation and deep identity. Topics include:
- Where your life is headed is the result of an experiment you set in motion•
- Why maturing spiritually involves a journey from belief to understanding
- How testing assumptions leads to new inner knowledge
- What you think God is cannot be the same as what God actually is
- Who you are involves a complex interplay of multiple layers of reality
Mục lục
THE AROUSING OF THOUGHT
FOUR PREMISES
1 Unquestioned Assumptions are Limiting
2 Human Beings are Spiritual Beings
3 Meaning and Identity are Constructed
4 God is Not What You Think
FOUR IMPLICATIONS
5 Maturing is a Journey from Belief to Knowledge
6 The Human Self is Layered
7 The Self Seeks to Learn and Grow
8 Beliefs Facilitate or Impede Growth
FOUR APPLICATIONS
9 The Significance of New Data
10 Asking Questions in The Right Way
11 Achieving Understanding
12 Each Life is an Experiment
TWO CHALLENGES
13 Discover Something New About Your Sel
14 Explore Your Inward Spiritual Sense
AFTERWORD: ON THIS CHANNELLED BOOK
GLOSSARY
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Keith Hill is a New Zealand writer whose work explores the overlap between mysticism, history, science, religion and psychology. His books include The God Revolution, Striving To Be Human, and Practical Spirituality, each of which won the Ashton Wylie Award, New Zealand’s premiere prize for spiritual writing. He is currently investigating contemporary developments in mysticism.
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