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• Brainwashing
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_conversion conversions] to [[new religious movements]] (NRMs). Since their application to NRMs, mind control theories ==New religious movements (NRMs) and the shift of focus==
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• 2002-10-20-Kingdom Transcends Mortal Experience
  ...]], there is no [[magic]] road, no instantaneous [[healing]], no instant [[conversion]] that can take the place of the small [[steps]] one after another of the s When you take up the work of the [[religious life]], it may seem to the world to be the same as living a completely [[se
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• Fundamentalism
  ...c worldview]] sometimes approach it as uncritically as most scientists see religious fundamentalists defending their worldviews. ...he 1800s, and by the end of the century they defined the [[mainstream]] of religious life in the United States. As they grew, however, these [[groups]] found it
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• Religion
  ...[[Intellectual|academic]] field of multi-disciplinary study of [[religion|religious]] [[belief]]s, [[behavior]]s, and institutions. It describes, compares, int ...behavior]] and [[belief]] from outside any particular religious viewpoint. Religious studies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies including [
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• Transpersonal Psychology
  ...ticism]]. These vary greatly depending on the origin but include religious conversion, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Consciousness#Consciousnes ...uch a framework. Transpersonal psychology is an academic discipline, not a religious or spiritual movement, and many of the field's leading authors, among those
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• Christian philosophy
  ...he [[Middle Ages]] as medieval theologians attempted to demonstrate to the religious authorities that Greek philosophy and Christian faith were, in fact, compat ...reach in their investigation. Classical religious believers have a set of religious principles of faith that they hold one must believe. Because of these diver
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• 2017-04-03-New Era Transition 15
  ...oesn’t really do it for those who are spiritual and searching, who are not religious. When we look at truth, beauty and goodness and their action coefficients, ...of the inaccurate interpretations of scriptures by learned individuals of religious faiths. These interpretations have created a corruption of the truth that
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...ist in [[religion]] and [[New Religious Movement]]s with the Department of Religious Studies at the [https://www.ucsb.edu/ University of California, Santa Barba ...everal encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion and new religious movements. He lives in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_barbara,_ca San
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• Theocracy
  ...]] [[state]], either in a [[personal]] [[incarnation]] or, more often, via religious institutional representatives (i.e., a church), replacing or dominating civ ...two 'arms,' but with the state administrative hierarchy subordinate to the religious hierarchy.
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• 2004-03-26-Stillness, The Father's Will
  ...[[spiritual]] [[foundation]]. While your prior investigation into matters religious and spiritual, may have taught you many principles, these teachers will enl ...nd [[association]]. It will be less the convincing of mind, and more the [[conversion]] of [[soul]] in awareness of the [[truth]] presented. Less of the [[accura
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• 1992-10-23-More Service Advice To TR's
  ...] has been [[compromised]] with other [[religious]] teachings and with the religious [[insights]] of individuals who have had [[influence]] on the [https://en.w BERTRAND: They are quite broad in their [[human]] make-up from [[religious]] [[philosophy]] though most have an understanding of the [[Christian]] rel
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• 2001-05-06-Parables
  ...e Master]]'s parables were commonplace [[events]]. They did not describe a religious [[ceremony]], nor were they directly addressing a [[philosophic]] or [[spir ...ning [[relevancy]] is a major element to the success of the story. One's [[conversion]] into a [[trust]] that one is truly a son or daughter of God often is brou
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...its eternity, and Jewish conceptions of the Messiah and the afterlife. As religious philosophy, it investigates those philosophical notions common to Judaism, ...ia Gaon]], [[Gersonides]], and [[Abraham Ibn Daud]]. In this latter case a religious person would also be a philosopher, by asking questions such as:
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• Vision
  ...ly part of the [[brain]] that is isolated to serve as a transducer for the conversion of patterns of light into neuronal signals. The lens of the eye focuses lig For religious visions as a literary form, see [[apocalyptic literature]].
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• Paper 103 - The Reality of Religious Experience
  ==PAPER 103: THE REALITY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE== ...[[participate]] in the [[development]] of the higher [[types]] of human [[religious]] [[insight]]. The [[Thought Adjuster]] is the [[cosmic]] window through wh
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• Francis of Assisi
  ...nor of Saint [[John the Baptist]], in the hope he would grow to be a great religious leader. When his father returned to Assisi, he was furious about this, as h ...at [[Collestrada]], and spent a year as a captive. It is probable that his conversion to more serious thoughts was a gradual process relating to this experience.
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• Paper 95 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
  95:1.11 Much of the Mesopotamian [[religious]] [[culture]] found its way into [[Hebrew]] [[literature]] and [https://en. ...nt_Egyptian_religion Egypt] fostered the most thoroughly blended type of [[religious]] [[philosophy]] to be found on [[Urantia]], and from the [https://en.wikip
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• Conservatism
  ...phies]] that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. The term is derived ...modernism]], a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative [[Abraham Kuyper]]. Burke was troubled by the [[Age of Enlight
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• Buddha
  ...odana]] , wishing for Siddhartha to be a great king, shielded his son from religious teachings or knowledge of human [[dukkha|suffering]]. Siddhartha was brough ...nds, the number of arahants swelled to 60 within the first two months. The conversion of the three Kassapa brothers and their 200, 300 and 500 disciples swelled
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• Paper 149 - The Second Preaching Tour
  ...tirely [[free]] from the [[superstitions]] of that day. He was free from [[religious]] [[prejudices]]; he was never intolerant. He had nothing in his [[heart]] ...t to destructive [[criticism]] or [[manifest]] an utter disregard of the [[religious]], [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]] usages of his day. He was no
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