...Boundaries’ is one of the books closest to my heart." Modern day Australians have become familiar with the idea that a journey only consists of physical work, but in the text, French manipulates the reader to also see that a journey can consist of a spiritual aspect too. Throughout the novel French gives a clear insight into the physical...
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...SPIRITUAL CONDITION EVALUATION PAPER By (Student Name) Institutional Affiliation Date Spiritual Condition Evaluation Paper Topic: Spiritual Condition Evaluation Paper Pages: 4 pages SOurces: 3 Citation: APA Deadline: 4 hrs Instructions: A Spiritual Condition Evaluation paper will be required of you. (Note: Write about yourself. However, If you would rather not write about yourself, you may select a living famous person to evaluate with the instructor’s prior approval. Remember in the final analysis, whether writing about yourself or someone else, only God knows a person’s heart completely so try to be both humble and gentle). This document will run from 900–1,500 words. You will use the course’s contents, including some of the Scriptural readings assigned, to evaluate your (or the famous person’s) spiritual condition/status with cultural sensitivity. You will then outline goals for personal spiritual improvement for the next 5 years. A proposed evaluation plan for you to use in re-assessing your spiritual growth (or the famous person’s) after 5 years is also required as part of this evaluation paper. If you quote any sources in developing this paper you are to use the APA citation. Introduction Our otherworldly journey as a follower of Christ started the minute we conceded individual sin and put our trust in Christ as Savior and Lord. Starting there, until death or the arrival of Christ, our life’s call as Christians is to develop in Christ likeness. Finishing...
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...Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was born on June 30, 1943 to fishmongers in London, England. While Jetsunma was a child she always felt like she didn't belong with the religious beliefs she was raised with. Consistently throughout her childhood she would read books and study other religious beliefs, in an attempt to find her true spiritual path. It wasn't until Jetsunma was 18 and finally read a book about Buddhism while stuck at the airport with her mother. After reading the book Jetsunma proclaimed to her mother that she was in fact a Buddhist. Jetsunma decided early on that she would not mind renouncing worldly pleasures like clothing, tv, and food. She was convinced the Buddhist nun life was the spiritual path for her. Jetsunma moved to India at...
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...euphoric journey like no other. Music is an essential part in religious ceremonies, birth, re-birth, spiritually altered states (trance), and even death. Music is the connection between the human soul and the path to an individual’s spiritual ecstasy. Religions of the past and of oral people, give an insight into the spiritual connections that can be attained through music. Native Americans use three traditional instruments and their voice to create hauntingly complex rhythms that, “imitate the life-giving processes of nature and celebrate the wholeness of the universe.” (Editors, 1992, p. 29) The flute that they use has six holes that correspond to the four cardinal directions and the earth and sky. The drum represents the,...
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...University. He conducted a recent case study on the spiritual experience of practitioners in the Santo Daime Church. Based on his ayahuasca visions, Justin wrote and published a fictional book entitled The Knight of Dark Wood: The Last Tree Whisperer, which includes themes related to mythology and consciousness. He has spoken at several conferences in San Francisco on a topics related to Jungian psychology, archetypes, mythology and plant-based visionary states. He lives in Portland, OR. The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca: The Healing Effects of Symbolic and Mythological Participation Mythology and alchemy are significant aspects of humanity that have been lost in the modern world but carry important messages and tools for integrating various levels of the unconscious as well as engendering purpose and enhancing creativity and spirituality. Ayahuasca, and other entheogens (e.g., psilocybin, LSD, salvia divinorum, etc.) may serve as psycho-enrichment technologies (PETs) that enhance cognition, boost creativity and spirituality, and create harmonious relationships with others. The use of ayahuasca in a ritual setting has been found to stimulate optimal living through the integration of mythological, alchemical, and archetypal motifs into daily life. Ritual use of ayahuasca may include a shamanic ritual (healer-patient) or an organized religious group, such as the Santo Daime church, the Barquina, or the União do Vegetal (UDV), the latter 3 of which represent a type of collective shamanism...
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...Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Jill Gillespie Nursing 310 V Spirituality in Nursing Introduction: As nursing professionals, we are in constant contact with persons from many walks of life and who have unique spiritual and religious backgrounds. To give quality holistic care, nursing professionals need to be understanding and compassionate about these differences and respect the diversification of the patients that we treat. By having an open mind and actively seeking the knowledge to provide unbiased and compassionate care that incorporates each individual’s spiritual faith. To begin to understand differences between spiritual beliefs, three distinct faith practices were compared to the traditional Christian faith. Buddhism, Shintoism and Bahai philosophies were examined through patient interviews to gain the knowledge needed to provide compassionate nursing. A Christian perspective on Healthcare: Christianity is a religion of personal experiences. It is a spiritual movement, not a lot of theories or "isms." It is a movement of life, truth, the Holy Spirit, and love. The important thing is to have a personal, real experience. Through the right relationship with God we can recognize and understand the Lord's will. There are many ways in which we can experience God's blessings. I recommend fasting and prayer as the most powerful of these. The Bible has much to say about fasting and prayer. Joel wrote, "Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with...
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...While Dante’s placement of Mohammed in Hell is, in itself, implied, the latter’s damnation not only comes from a sense of divine justice but also acts as a reflection on and a warning to Dante on his individual journey to God. Dante, along with many of his peers and influences, views Islam as a false sect broken off from the core of Christianity and Mohammed as a Christian with a corrupted view of doctrine that lures potential followers from a true path of righteousness. Mohammed, like Dante, feels a spiritual discontentment that leads him on a reflective journey; however, as Mohammed turns his personal path, beliefs, and interpretations into its own doctrine, he varies from Dante’s poetic but applicable tale of salvation. Dante’s encounter...
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...INDIVIDUAL LPO REPORT – PIRATE DEV When I started the LPO class at IE, one thing that clearly struck me was that how dependent are we to achieve our goals and vision. The IWWEG framework led me into thinking what I can do to achieve the visions that I have had since childhood. With this in my mind, I started working on a kind of a blueprint on my getting to that vision. Let me elaborate step by step. I – From the time I have come into existence in this physical dimension, my curiosity has been to understand why am I here? What did I come for? A long time was spent in understanding this existence. Did I come for just living and dying? Do I wake up everyday, have food, go to work, make money, make love, have kids, buy properties, become sick, and then die? Too depressive…this can’t be the reason for being here. There has to be something else. There has to be some purpose for which I have taken birth in this physical form. I now have realized that I would like to establish a co-operative mechanism, which would help people gain life skills that, would help them successful as leaders, husbands/wives, fathers/mothers, brothers/sisters etc. How do I achieve this? This leads to the next step. WE – Fortunately or unfortunately, we are dependent beings. Not just with other human beings but with everything around us. We need air to breather, the sun to give us life, water to drink, cows to give milk, animals to give us food. Every purpose in this world requires support from some...
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...Leadership effects employee satisfaction. I also found that Servant Leadership is often synonymous with some sort of religious foundation. Many of the articles I read likened Servant Leadership to religious models. I personally found it difficult to connect with this interpretation, even though I see the relationships, so I chose instead to make a broader “spiritual” connection that would appeal to the “non-believer”. By applying the principals of Servant Leadership to all aspects of one’s life, I believe, true satisfaction and success is possible. What is Servant Leadership? Robert Greenleaf coined the phrase Servant Leadership in his essay titled, The Servant as Leader, in 1970. He says that “the servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead” (Greenleaf.). The word “servant” may conjure up visions of maids scrubbing floors or perhaps a “man of the cloth.” Webster’s dictionary literally says a servant is a “1) person employed to perform services (especially household) for another, 2) a slave, 3) a government employee or civil servant, 4) a person ardently devoted to another or a cause (P.1658). So the word “servant” and “leader” is something of an oxymoron. How can someone be a servant and leader at the same time? In fact, many would say that by the standards...
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...2:15-3:35 Dr. Dámaris M. Otero-Torres Department of Spanish and Portuguese 104A Carpender Hall DC Office hours: by appointment e-mail: dotero@spanport.rutgers.edu phone: 732. 848.6874 seminar description: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is as a modern classic. Originally published in Portuguese in 1988, this novel has since been translated into 67 languages, becoming one of the best-selling books in history. Inspired by the teachings of ancient alchemy, the story narrates the adventures of a shepherd named Santiago, as he travels through the African desert in the pursuit of his dream: to see the pyramids in Egypt. As he journeys through the desert, Santiago becomes the ultimate alchemist when he learns to transform his life by tapping into the language of the soul. Our first goal in the seminar will be two-fold: to explore the contemplative principles of ancient alchemy as the foundation for this allegorical text and to delve into the “messy” stages of a hero’s journey. In medieval times, alchemy was considered a science, aimed specifically to transmute base metals into gold, to discover a universal cure for disease, and to prolong life. In our days, “alchemy” is basically understood as a metaphor for personal transformation. Indeed, the poetic connotations of the word “alchemy” underscore its lack of substantive merit to make it in the “real” world. Because highly industrialized societies, such as our own, unequivocally privilege clear, specific, and goal-oriented...
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...completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Phil 1:6) When someone seeks out counseling it’s usually for help in dealing with pain, hurt, depression, or seeking counsel about situations in their life that need to be addressed. The intent of this paper is to compare and contrast the parallel between Dr. Larry Crabb’s biblical model of teaching in Christian counseling theories with scientific proven methods to counsel and treat individuals with these secular counseling models Cognitive- Behavior Therapy (CBT), Rogers’ Client-Centered Therapy (RCCT), and Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Goal of Christian Counseling When looking at the accepted counseling standards, theories, and techniques in Christian and secular counseling there are many commonalities and differences. The Christian counseling goal according to Dr. Crabb’s textbook, Effective Christian Counseling, “is to promote Christian maturity, to help people enter into a richer experience of worship and a more effective life service” (Crabb, 1977, p. 29). The process of this is developed in two parts (1)...
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...BUSI-502: EXAM 3 STUDY QUESTIONS 1. According to your professor: a. Greenleaf's servant leadership is humanistic, relative, and without foundation b. biblically based servant leadership rooted in the life of christ. c. you have been offered a clear contrast between Greenleaf and a biblical view of servant leadership d. all of the above e. none of the above 2. Spiritual reasons for leading like Jesus include all except the following: a. servant leaders seek first the kingdom b. servant leaders are better than non servant leader c. servant leadership honors god and his commandments d. servant leadership puts the love of Jesus into action e. servant leadership models Jesus to others 3. All of the following are spiritual reasons for leading like Jesus: a. servant leaders are better than non servant leader b. servant leaders are more in touch with their spiritual selves c. servant leaders put the love of Jesus into action d. servant leaders become achievers e. all of the above. 4. All of the following are practical reasons for leading like Jesus except: a. servant leadership provides better service b. servant leadership is more spiritual c. servant leadership provides better leadership d. servant leadership closes the gap between success and significance e. all of the above 5. All of the following are practical reasons for leading like Jesus: a. servant leadership provides better service b. servant leadership provides better leadership ...
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...the western Christian belief system. One commonality noted between Native American belief and the Christian belief is that prayer is used to connect with a higher being and is used to find guidance for the person’s way of life. The second faith practice examined was Buddhism. The belief held by the Buddhism faith according to my second patient Karen stated the five rules to live by; “1) No killing, either human or animal, 2) No stealing, 3) No infidelity, 4) No lying, and 5) No alcohol consumption” (Karen, personal communication, 2010). Inner healing also is a main concept of the health and illness continuum according to Karen (Karen, personal communication, 2010). A practicing Buddhist believes that their health is the most important wealth in life and a common goal is to feel no greed and to have no cravings (Buddhism Beliefs, 2008). There is to be no attachments to materialistic things (Buddhism Beliefs, 2008). Karen¹, a practicing Buddhist, was interviewed regarding her thoughts on health care and her faith. Q: What is your spiritual perspective on healing? “I believe in inner healing and that my health is my greatest asset in this life. I view my body as a temple and no impurities enter my temple.”(Karen, personal communication, 2010). Q: What are critical components of...
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...Introduction Devotional Classics is a book which contains writings by a large selection of spiritual giants. It provides an amazing perspective of Christianity from a wide variety of demonstrations, walks of faith, vocations, and time periods which started from the early church fathers up to current writers. It is an excellent compilation of portions of mostly classic Christian works in devotional format. This devotional book offers a full and a complete overview of all sides of devotional life. It is a great companion to the Scriptures as it has biblical references and study questions as part of each reading. Each chapter gives me an excerpt and some thought provoking reflections by Foster and Smith. Most of the readings are profound and worthy of in-depth reading. It has made me think, contemplate and overall grow in my spiritual journey. In this paper, I will demonstrate why John Calvin is important to be studied in the 21st century. I have chosen his devotional writing as a reflection of my spiritual insights and its application to my spiritual journey. Why John Calvin Many theologians such as Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin and more throughout history have made a big impact on their culture, times, society, and/or religion. One of the theologians that stands out to me is John Calvin, who had a great influence during his time, the early to middle sixteenth century. Calvin is considered by many to have been the father and founder of the Presbyterian and...
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...New Christian Study By Walter D. Huyck Jr., D.Min. www.thischristianjourney.com Week Four Spiritual Growth Essentials, Continued Before You Begin This Study Pray for God to bless your study time and fellowship today. Quote the memory verse to your study partner. Talk about the Devotions you read this last week and the Spiritual Insights, Prayers, and Applications that were gleaned from these devotions. Discuss any question that you might have as a result of your daily Bible Reading. Discuss your Sermon Notes. This Weeks Memory Verse Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. A Spiritual Growth Essential - The Church Often, when dealing with new Christians, it seems as though they don't hold a very high regard for the Church of Jesus Christ. I think that they are mistaking the religious schemes of mankind for the Church of Jesus Christ. They have seen those that have used religion for their own personal gain, and have decided that they want nothing to do with that kind of religion, and I don't blame them. The truth is that the Church of Jesus Christ is not about religion at all, it's about relationship. You see religion is that which mankind does to make one feel good about himself toward God. Christianity is about developing...
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