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How to Start Your Spiritual Journey (7 Illuminating Steps)

By Mateo Sol — 2021

The spiritual journey is a personal quest we undertake to reconnect with our Souls, find our authentic life purpose, and embody our True Nature.

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.

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Viktor Frankl
2006
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Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals

Moore shows how honoring periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve into the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning.

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Thomas Moore
2005
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In Case of Spiritual Emergency: Moving Successfully Through Your Awakening

Personal stories of spiritual crises are presented alongside practical and effective guidance in this exploration of a fascinating phenomenon.

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Catherine G. Lucas
2011
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Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life.

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Marc Galanter
1999
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The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality

Reading St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St.

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Marc Foley
2019
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The Dark Night of the Soul (Losing Who We Thought We Were)

According to St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Ávila, humans have an inborn longing for completion. This completion cannot be achieved by worldly pleasures. So, instead, we must go within, to reach the inner core of our soul in which ‘the divine’ lies hidden.

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2020
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How Elizabeth Gilbert Filled an “Eternal Black Hole of Despair” | Belief | Oprah Winfrey Network

Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert says she wasn’t truly stirred by religion until she was 30 years old.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
2015
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Michael Bernard Beckwith’s Prayer for When You’re Feeling Stuck | Super Soul Sunday | OWN

Spiritual pioneer Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith shares a simple yet powerful prayer that can help you transcend your problems.

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Michael Bernard Beckwith
2016
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Angeles Arrien Ph.D. – Crazywise Expert Interview

Angeles Arrien Ph.D., world renowned Cultural Anthropologist, author and educator unexpectedly and quite suddenly passed away recently. Last summer, under a canopy of redwoods, she shared with us some of her insights gathered from her study of indigenous cultures.

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Angeles Arrien
2014
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Dark Night of the Soul

While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul’s longing for God.

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St. John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr (translator, introduction), Thomas Moore (foreword)
2003
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