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  2. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Prayer: An effort to communicate with God, or to some deity or deities, or another form of spiritual entity, or otherwise, either to offer praise, to make a request, or simply to express one's thoughts and emotions. Prophecy: In a broad sense, is the prediction of future events.

  3. Attachment theory and psychology of religion - Wikipedia

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    In the same way, they often modify the effects of attachment processes in the context of believers' perceived relationships with their theory of God. [1] Two general hypotheses have been suggested and are seen as describing two distinct developmental pathways in religion—the compensation hypothesis and the correspondence hypothesis.

  4. God helmet - Wikipedia

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    The God Helmet was not specifically designed to elicit visions of God, [1] but to test several of Persinger's hypotheses about brain function. The first of these is the Vectorial Hemisphericity Hypothesis, [20] which proposes that the human sense of self has two components, one on each side of the brain, that ordinarily work together but in which the left hemisphere is usually dominant.

  5. Sufi psychology - Wikipedia

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    The spirit ruh is in direct connection with the Divine, even if one is unconscious of that connection. The spirit has seven levels or facets of the complete spirit. These levels are: mineral, vegetable, animal, personal, human, secret and secret of secret souls. Each level represents the stages of evolution, and the process that it goes through ...

  6. Religious experience - Wikipedia

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    The underlying theme here is that God, the perfect goodness, [65] is known or experienced at least as much by the heart as by the intellect since, in the words of 1 John 4:16: "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him." Some approaches to classical mysticism would consider the first two phases as preparatory to the ...

  7. Relationship between religion and science - Wikipedia

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    [237] 39% have a belief in a god, 6% have belief in a god sometimes, 30% do not believe in a god but believe in a higher power, 13% do not know if there is a god, and 12% do not believe in a god. [237] 49% believe in the efficacy of prayer, 90% strongly agree or somewhat agree with approving degrees in Ayurvedic medicine. Furthermore, the term ...

  8. Joseph Henry - Wikipedia

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    Using his newly developed electromagnetic principle, in 1831, Henry created one of the first machines to use electromagnetism for motion. This was the earliest ancestor of modern DC motor. It did not make use of rotating motion, but was merely an electromagnet perched on a pole, rocking back and forth.

  9. Social connection - Wikipedia

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    Social connection is the experience of feeling close and connected to others. It involves feeling loved , cared for, and valued, [ 1 ] and forms the basis of interpersonal relationships . "Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they ...