The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality:

Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality,[1][need quotation to verify] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their own being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."[2][need quotation to verify]

Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.[3]

Introductory topics

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Eastern

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Other topics

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Philosophy and religion

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Paths

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Inner path

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"Inner path", as a spiritual or religious concept, is referred to in:

Left-hand path

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Magic and occult

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Martial arts

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New Age

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People

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Spiritual and occult practices

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Concentration

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Divination

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Other

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Western

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Religion, esotericism, and mysticism

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Organizations

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People

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Occultism and practical mysticism

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Neopaganism

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992.
  2. ^ Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2
  3. ^ Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii