Spirituality & Philosophy
Core spiritual concepts, philosophical traditions, and paths to understanding.
24 terms
Karma
The spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions influence future outcomes.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment: an umbrella English term covering several distinct realisation-states named differently across traditions...
Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual awakening is the colloquial Western term for a major shift in self-perception in which a person reports that t...
Dharma
A multilayered concept from Indian philosophy meaning cosmic order, moral law, righteous duty, and the path of living in...
Consciousness
The fundamental quality of awareness and subjective experience, explored in spiritual traditions as the ground of all be...
Nirvana
The ultimate state of liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth in Buddhism.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the doctrine that the soul, consciousness, or some component of personal identity is reborn into succes...
Higher Self
The eternal, wise aspect of one's being that exists beyond the ego and personality, serving as an inner guide connected ...
Ego Death
A temporary or permanent dissolution of the sense of separate self, experienced as the boundary between self and other, ...
Non-Duality
Non-duality (Sanskrit *advaita*, "not two") is the philosophical and contemplative position that the apparent separation...
Soul Purpose
Soul purpose is the contemporary spiritual-development concept of an individual's distinctive lifetime contribution — th...
Divine Feminine
Divine Feminine: in contemporary Western spirituality, a sacred-principle framework that names receptivity, intuition, c...
Tantra
Tantra is a family of Indic religious and ritual traditions emerging roughly in the 5th–6th centuries CE within both Hin...
Shadow Work
Shadow Work is a psychological and spiritual practice developed by Carl Jung that involves confronting the unconscious p...
Manifestation
Manifestation is the practice of deliberately focusing thought, belief, and intention on a desired outcome with the expe...
Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is the idea that thoughts and feelings with a consistent emotional charge draw matching circumstan...
Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the Soul is a prolonged period of spiritual crisis in which a person loses their sense of meaning, con...
Inner Child
The Inner Child is a psychological concept referring to the part of the adult psyche that retains the emotional imprints...
Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a collection of religious and philosophical movements from the early centuries CE that center on gnosis — ...
Twin Flame
Twin Flame: a New Age concept describing two people believed to share a single soul split into two bodies, drawn togethe...
Soulmate
A soulmate is someone a person feels an unusually strong bond with — emotionally, intellectually, or spiritually — in a ...
Karmic Relationship
A karmic relationship is a romantic or close personal bond characterized by intense attraction, recurring conflict, and ...
Starseed
A Starseed is a person who believes their soul originated on another planet, star system, or dimension before incarnatin...
Lightworker
A lightworker is someone who believes they have a purpose centered on healing, raising collective consciousness, or help...