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Howard was born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and began his writing career in the 1940s as an author of humor and children's books. He began speaking on the principles of personal development in the late 1950s while living in southern California. In the 1960s, he began writing books that focused on spiritual and psychological growth.
The following is a list of titles of the available materials for age 15 and above. More titles are under development. [15] Book 1: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit; Book 2: Arising to Serve; Book 3: Teaching Children’s Classes; Book 4: The Twin Manifestations; Book 5: Releasing the Powers of Junior Youth; Book 6: Teaching the Cause
Later books have been written for a more general audience and have continued to focus on the role of spirituality in human spiritual unfolding while drawing on science, philosophy and the perennial wisdom tradition for insights that are helpful in understanding spiritual awakening and enlightenment.
He defines love as, "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (Peck, 1978/1992, [7] p85). Peck expands on the work of Thomas Aquinas over 700 years ago, that love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of another. Peck seeks to differentiate between love and cathexis.
Rudolf Steiner developed exercises aimed at cultivating new cognitive faculties he believed would be appropriate to contemporary individual and cultural development. . According to Steiner's view of history, in earlier periods people were capable of direct spiritual perceptions, or clairvoyance, but not yet of rational thought; more recently, rationality has been developed at the cost of ...
The model emphasises the journey of faith and spiritual maturity through a number of stages. [3]+5 Stewardship +4 Communion with God +3 Conceptual and behavioral growth +2 Incorporation into Body +1 Post-decision evaluation New birth -1 Repentance and faith in Christ-2 Decision to act -3 Personal problem recognition -4 Positive attitude towards Gospel-5 Grasp implications of Gospel -6 ...
He is best known for his book Stages of Faith (1981), in which he sought to develop the idea of a developmental process in "human faith". [5] These stages of faith development were along the lines of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development. [7] In the book, Fowler describes 6 stages of ...
The institute is dedicated to the spiritual dimensions of aging and conscious living as expressed in the work of Rabbi Zalman Schlachter-Shalomi. His 1995 book, From Age-ing to Sage-ing (Warner Books), forms the basis of the Institute's teachings. Currently, the Sage-ing Guild, a networking organization formed in 2004, leads discussions ...