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Spiritual Development: Outcomes and Indicators
by Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.
Aug. 1998
Copyright © 1998 by Frances Vaughan. All rights reserved.
Used by the Council on Spiritual Practices with permission.
- Stages of spiritual development
- Traditional
- Christian - Fowler's six stages of faith
- Buddhist - Ten ox-herding pictures
- Hindu - seven chakras
- Sufi - seven levels of self
- Psychological
- Egocentric
- Sociocentric
- Worldcentric
- Transpersonal
- Markers
- Presence
- Self-awareness
- awareness of others
- awareness of relationships
- authenticity
- Emotional transformation
- Compassion replacing judgment
- Forgiveness replacing anger
- Expanding circle of empathic identification
- Motivation
inner peace: from fear to love
- cultivation of wisdom: from ignorance to understanding
- liberation: from bondage to freedom
- Process
- belief-faith-experience-identification
- effort and surrender
- attention and intention
- setting a sacred intention
- self-improvement and self-acceptance
- from mystical experience to becoming a mystic
- Purpose
- relieve suffering
- awaken new perceptions of reality
- self-realization and self-transcendence
- enlightenment
- connecting life of mind and spirit with action in the world
Evolution
- The spiritual path - aspiring to enlightenment
Involution
- Experience-gnosis-manifestation-transmission
For further reading on topics outlined above see:
Vaughan, F. Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions.
Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1995.
Also Author's Guild Back-in-Print series, www.iUniverse.com.
Vaughan, F. The Inward Arc: Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality.
2nd edition. Nevada City, CA.: Blue Dolphin, 1995
Also Author's Guild Back-in-Print series, www.iUniverse.com.
Spiritual Intelligence
Frances Vaughan - 1998
- SPIRITUALITY: Subjective experience of the sacred
- RELIGION: Creed, community, code of ethics
- INTELLIGENCE: Transrational, transpersonal
- Includes rational and intuitive modes of knowing
- Includes personal and collective sources of wisdom
- SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE transcends and includes
- sense perception
- feeling and emotion
- discursive reason
- intuition
- SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE suggests
- wisdom and compassion
- understanding and inner peace
- love and freedom
- depth and breadth of vision
- SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE may be expressed as
- the common work
- teaching and learning
- healing and forgiveness
- research, education and service
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