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Ward, Keith
Is There a Common Core of Religious Experience?
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nd
Series
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Yoganada, Paramahansa
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Index
Abolition of Slavery 202
Abraham 18, 34
and Muhammad 38
Absolute Unitary Being (AUB) 16–17
Abu Bakr 37
accident 80–1
Adams, Douglas,
Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy
144
Adi Granth
, holy scripture of Sikhs 39
object of devotion 19
adolescence, conversion 100, 101
Advaita
, doctrine of non-duality 48
African National Congress 215, 230
afterlife 17
Agam Sutras
, Zoroastrian teachings 31
ahimsa
, complete non-violence 31
Gandhi taught 205
Ahura Mazda 30
Aitken, Jonathan,
Pride and
Perjury
109–10
Alister Hardy Research Centre 234
Alister Hardy Society 96, 168–9, 232
Alister Hardy Trust website 6, 7, 114
Allah, merciful creator 37
Allan Sweeney International Reiki and
Healing and Training Centre 225
Allende, Isabel,
The Sum of Our
Days
132
altered states of consciousness
(ASC) 127–8
alternative medicine 225
Amesha Spentas 30
Analects
, Confucianism 33
Ananda, Buddha’s cousin 20
ancient burial sites 146
Angel Jibril (Gabriel), vision of 37
angels, visions of 123–5
anger 86
Angra Mainyu 30
Anthroposophists 45–6, 208
apartheid, protest against 215
apology to Iraqi refugee 229
Aranyakas
(hidden teachings) 28
Arnold, Matthew, poem, ‘Dover
Beach’ 253
ashram
(retreat centre) 47
in Tamil Nadu 188
Atharva
28
atheism in China 235
atman
, individual soul 28
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar 196,
215–17
avatars
(incarnations) 2, 47
awareness of other dimension 8
ayahusca ‘trip’ 132
Ayer, A. J., atheist philosopher 163, 164
Language, Truth and Logic 246
Near Death Experience 246
Ayurvedic medicine 51
Bab (‘the gate’) 41, 42
Bach, ‘Partita in D Minor’ 88
Baha’i 41
Baha’u’llah (‘The Glory of God’) 41
Bailey, Edward,
Implicit Religion: an
Introduction
252
‘Beatitudes’ 35
Beguines, lay women of charity 228
beliefs, deepening of 102
Benedictine Rule 187–8, 227
Bernadette Soubirous, France
(St Bernadette) 111–12
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo,
The Ecstasy of
Saint Theresa
, sculpture 124
Index
276
Besant, Annie, Theosophist 45, 193
Bethlehem 71
Bhagavad Gita
(The
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