# Spiritual Awakenings  ## Metadata - Author: [[Multiple Authors, Marjorie Woollacott, and David Lorimer]] - Full Title: Spiritual Awakenings - Category: #books ## Highlights - This book will confirm the intuition that on this planet we are living in a Sacred Order, that there is no essential separation between the transcendent and the immanent orders of reality, and that the creative and sustaining power of the universe is Love. Anne Baring, PhD (hons) Author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul ([Location 24](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=24)) - Note: Panentheistic steelmanning the golden rule with love truth bliss - Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind. ([Location 689](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=689)) - “Whoso knoweth love, knoweth God.” ([Location 761](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=761)) - Once, I asked Claudio Naranjo (1932-2019), a pioneer in transpersonal psychotherapies, what the purpose of psychotherapy is? “To restore the capacity to love”, ([Location 1059](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=1059)) - Carl Rogers (1980) who quoted Lao Tsu (c 600 BC), author of the Tao Te Ching: If I keep from meddling with people, they take care of themselves; If I keep from commanding people, they behave themselves; If I keep from preaching at people, they improve themselves; If I keep from imposing on people, they become themselves. ([Location 2122](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2122)) - Paloutzian suggests that "spiritual transformation constitutes a change in the meaning system that a person holds as a basis for self-definition, the interpretation of life, including the overarching purposes, ultimate concerns, values, meanings, and corresponding life directions of an individual” (2005, p. 334). ([Location 2186](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2186)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - Lancaster, B. L. (2018). Re-veiling the revealed: Insights into the psychology of ‘enlightenment’ from the Kabbalah. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 37(2), 73–87. doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2018.37.2.73 ([Location 2508](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2508)) - Lancaster, B. L. (2021). The faces of God: A kabbalistic “myth” and its implications for consciousness. In P. Dennison (Ed.), Perspectives on consciousness (pp. 277-317). Nova Science. ([Location 2511](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2511)) - person. This has instilled in me an appreciation that conducting research is as much an art as a science, and flourishes only when the approach is person-centred and mindful. ([Location 2705](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2705)) - has become clear to me that a characteristic feature of a first-person perspective is meaning; human beings are naturally meaning makers rather than fact finders. This ([Location 2725](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2725)) - He remarked that Philosophy means love of wisdom, not love of thought. ([Location 2767](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2767)) - “Religion’s true domain is far beyond anything in reach of scientific explanation.” – Erwin Schrödinger (Nature and the Greeks) “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe–-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort.”   –Albert Einstein (“Purpose in Nature ([Location 2788](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2788)) - Looking back now after almost half a century of ecological teaching and research, I like to think that I bowed, and that, with deep gratitude mixed with a powerful nostalgia and a longing to further explore such depths of connection, I offered myself, only 19 years old, suntanned and deeply ‘bush happy’ in service to Chinsembwe’s soul and spirit and to Gaia, our sacred living earth. ([Location 2987](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=2987)) - that moment the truth of things arose, truly the Earth as the Native people have always understood it - as an incarnation of Spirit. ([Location 3134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3134)) - In the Tantric tradition of India there is an understanding that when an enlightened teacher shares wisdom through a written text, there can be a direct transmission (sankrānti) of the deep meaning of that text to a qualified reader, that is, one who is receptive and becomes deeply absorbed (Williams, 2017). ([Location 3150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3150)) - Williams, B. (2017). Abhinavagupta’s portrait of a guru: Revelation and religious authority in Kashmir. Dissertation. Harvard University. pp. 248-250. Link: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39987948. ([Location 3159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3159)) - What is really important is that there is always this feeling of `Leibnizian optimism’ a deep-rooted trust in a fundamental well-being. It is more an evolution akin to `punctuated equilibrium’ where long periods of normality - even occasional vicissitudes - are punctuated with instances of illumination, joy, and love. ([Location 3298](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3298)) - The celebrated near-death experimenter, Pim van Lommel, compared the brain to a television set, which converts electromagnetic waves to image and sound: The waves are like consciousness, the TV like the brain. The brain does not produce consciousness; it modulates it. ([Location 3358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3358)) - Chapter Forty-One   The Cosmic Tour   Christopher Bache, PhD ([Location 3512](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3512)) - The Being of Light reassured me telepathically that what I was experiencing was no disease, but rather a process of transmutation of my consciousness that played a crucial role in my life plan. ([Location 3960](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=3960)) - Tobert, N. (2016). Cultural perspectives on mental wellbeing: Spiritual interpretations of symptoms in medical practice.  Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ([Location 4669](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=4669)) - Basu, S. & Miovic, M. (2021 - 2022). Consciousness-based psychology: Integral yoga and transpersonal growth in Sri Aurobindo’s worldview. Springer Publishers. ([Location 4676](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=4676)) - He said that it was like becoming a connoisseur of reality. ([Location 4933](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B5D84H9X&location=4933))