modern spirituality
Today's inner quest
Modern spirituality is religious or transcendent practice detached from traditional institutional frameworks.
It typically emphasizes personal experience, inner growth, and eclecticism—drawing from multiple traditions rather than adhering to one doctrine.
The phrase often implies practices like meditation, yoga, or energy work pursued outside organized religion: She describes herself as spiritual but not religious.
Critics sometimes use it dismissively to suggest superficiality or consumerism in spiritual matters.
- non-dualityAbsence of fundamental division
- new age movementSyncretic spiritual movement
- law of attractionPositive thinking yields outcomes
- oracle cardsCards for spiritual guidance
- full moon ritualCeremony timed to lunar peak
meditation · transcendence · third eye · interfaith dialogue · yoga · mindfulness · universal consciousness · higher self · cosmic energy · crystals · breathwork · interconnectedness · energy healing · sound therapy · plant medicine · gratitude practice · self-actualization · visualization
modern spiritualitytraditional religion
Longstanding inherited belief system
organized religion · Roman Catholicism · fundamentalism · established church · Eastern Orthodoxy
modern spiritualityatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · rationalism · physicalism · empiricism · skepticism
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