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The Original Vision
94
Rolle, Richard, mystic 175
Roman Catholic Christianity 36
Roman Empire, Christianity, official
religion 36
Rosicrucians 46
Rothenstein, Sir William, painter 87
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
Le Contrat
Social
87
running water in nature 10
Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church,
Britain 53
Ruysbroeck, John of (Jan van
Ruysbroek) 228
sacred feminine 49
sacred places 69, 71
sacred power 21
Index
284
sacred texts 19
Sai Baba,
guru
47
saints 2
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Mormon
Church 44
salt tax protest by Gandhi 205
Sama
28
Samadhi, meditative absorption 65
Samaritans founder, Chad
Varah 208–10
sanatana dharma
(eternal truth) 28
Sangha
, community of Buddhist
monks 20
sannyasin
68
Santiago de Compostela 71
Sanyama
65
Satya Sai Baba 47
Saunders, Dame Cicely 196, 211–13
Schleiermacher, Friedrich,
theologian 19
The Christian Faith
241
on religion 241
Scholastica, sister of St Benedict 227
Schucman, Helen,
A Course in
Miracles
20
science and spirituality 239
Scientific and Medical Network 239
Scientology, Church of 43–4
seal of the prophets, Muhammad 36
Second World’s Parliament of
Religions 24
secular humanism 25, 26
secularity of contemporary society
252
‘self-power’ (
jiriki
) 54
Self, release from 48
selfish desire 32
Self-Realization Fellowship, USA 181
Sermon on the Mount 13, 35
Service of Remembrance, Cenotaph,
London 24
Seventh Day Adventists 142
sexual abuse 142
Shabbat (Jewish Sabbath) 55
shamanism 21, 23
drumming 89
healing, and by internet 106, 129–31
initiation 148
journey 127–9
rituals 122
Shams of Tabriz, dervish 178–80
Shantiniketan, abode of peace 41
Sharf, Robert, on religious
experience 248
Shari’a
law 38
Sheldrake, Rupert
A New Science of Life
239
on mind and brain link 238–9
Prison Phoenix Project 225
Shema
(‘Hear’) first prayer of Jews 60
Shi’as, led by Imams 38
Shiite Muslim, experience 144–5
Shinto Waterfall ceremony, Japan 21, 55
Shirdi Baba 47
Shiva 28
shoe removal, before prayer 60
Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha,
Nepal 31
Sikhism 38–9
bridge between Hindu and
Muslim 38
holy book, Adi Granth 19
silence 67
slave trade, Atlantic 202–4
Smart, Ninian 12
The Religious Experience of
Mankind
247–8
Smith, Joseph, founder of Mormon
Church 44
The Book of Mormon
44
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell,
The Meaning
and End of Religion
12
Society for Psychical Research 45
Socrates and ancient Greece 25
drank poison 196–7
solitary religious experience 108–10
soul and superhuman force 9
soul retrieval 129–31
sound 89–90
South America 4
Soviet Union 2
‘speaking in tongues’ 121–3
spirit in laws of universe 137
spiritual consciousness 146
Index
285
spiritual nature of man 232
spiritual reality in many guises 250
Spiritual Science 46
spiritual search for self 75
‘spiritual wives’ 142
spiritualism 1, 2, 15
spirituality
and consciousness 3
convergent within religions 251
and modern physics 51
Sri Ramakrishna, Hindu 191–2
St Augustine 121, 198
St Benedict, founder of Western
monasticism 227
St Christopher’s Hospice,
Sydenham 213
St Francis of Assisi 227–8
St John of the Cross, mystic 138–9, 172
St Paul 36, 196, 198–200
St Stephen Walbrook, Chad Varah
209
St Thomas Aquinas 198
Summa Theologica
221
St Thomas Becket 72
Stace, W. T., extrovert and introvert
mysticism 247
Starbuck, Edwin,
The Psychology of
Religion
100, 231
State Law and Order Restoration
Council (SLORC),
Myanmar 216, 217
Steiner, Rudolf, schools 45–6
stigmata 172
received by St. Francis 228
stress and trauma 17
suffering in life 32
Sufi poet and mystic 137
Sufis of Islam 16, 38, 172, 177
suicides 7, 142, 209
Sunni Muslims (majority) 38
supranational manifestations 172
suttee, (Sati) campaign against 41
Swami Order, monk 181
Swami Vivekananda 192
Sweeney, Allan 225–6
Swinburne, Richard,
The Existence of
God
248–9
synchronicity 132–3
Syria, Rabbi Marc Gopin’s
reconciliation with 229
Tagore, Debendranath 41
experience by the Ganges 108
Tagore, Rabindranath, poet 41, 180
Asian Nobel Prize Winner 108
on watching the dawn 108–9
Taizé, France 110
Tamil Nadu, India, religious
experiences 237–8
Tavener, John, ‘Beautiful Names’ 88–9
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre 79
telekinesis 14
telepathy 14
Temple Mount, Jerusalem 38
temple worship for Zoroastrians 30
Teresa of Avila
account of angel 124
contemplative prayer 61
ecstasies 172
Spanish mystic 113–14
terminally ill patients, treating 210–11
terrorism 2
‘The Hardy Question’ 3
Theosophical Society 44–5, 193
Theravada school of Buddhism 32
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist
monk 125
The Miracle of Mindfulness
189–91
Thompson, Francis, ‘The Kingdom of
God’, poem 78
Tibet, taken by China 213
Tibetan Book of the Dead 148
Tibetan Government in exile,
Dharamsala, India 213
time, outside of 16
Tiruvannamalai ashram 48
Tolle, Eckhart 50
The Power of Now
83–4
Stillness Speaks
50
Torah
, first five books of Bible 19,
33, 34
Toronto Blessing
111
Towers of Silence, for leaving
corpses 30
Index
286
Transcendental Meditation 14, 18, 48
translation of texts 20
transmigration of souls 29
Truth and Reconciliation
Commission 215, 229–30
Turkey, research on spiritual
experiences 234, 236–7
Tutu, Archbishop Desmond 215, 230
ubuntu
(African brotherhood) 214, 215
Ultimate Reality 250, 251
unconscious mind 132
Underhill, Evelyn,
Mysticism
244
Unitarianism 46, 102
United States of America 4
Unitive State 244
unity with the divine 16
Upanishads
(hidden teachings) 28, 41
Vaishnavism 49
Vajrayana school of Buddhism 32
van Ruysbroek, Jan, mystic 175
Varah, Chad 196, 208–10
Vedas
, revelatory texts in Sanskrit 4,
20, 28
vegetarianism 106
Vietnamese War 189
Viking wisdom 128–9
violin music in church 88
Virgin Mary 49, 111
Virtual Jerusalem, requests for
prayers 60
Vishnu 28
vision of cross 111, 113
changes to original 22
of Julian of Norwich 174–7
Voice of God 107
voices, hearing 119–21
Waheguru
, Sikh God 38
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem 71
prayers in 60
Waldorf schools 46
Walsch, Neale Donald
Communion with God
50, 86
Conversations with God
50, 86, 133
Friendship with God
50
Ward, Keith 251–2
warfare 2
washing before prayer 60
Webb, Beatrice socialist reformer 6, 9,
231
Weil, Simone
Jewish, and Christianity 99
on love of God 119
West Indian slaves 202
Wetherall, Ann 224
White, Rhea, parapsychologist 15
Wilberforce, William 196,
202–4
Winchester cathedral choir 89
wisdom 3
Woods, Christopher, experience of
light 114–15
Wordsworth, William, ‘Tintern Abbey’,
poem 14
World Community for Christian
Meditation 65
World Congress of Faiths,
(Younghusband) 204–5
World Fellowship of Faiths 24
World’s Parliament of Religions,
Chicago, 1893 24
world peace 42
World Trade Centre, attacks
against 218
worship 53–4
Yajur
28
Yang 33
Yin 33
yoga 23, 74–5
Younghusband, Sir Francis 196, 204
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), rock
star 196, 218
Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) 30
Zen Buddhism 172
Japan 32
mystical experience 185
Zen Buddhist monk,
on dreams 125
Zoroastrian priests, Magi 30
Zoroastrianism 30
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