spiritual reality
Beyond material existence
Spiritual reality refers to dimensions of existence beyond the physical or material—the realm of spirit, soul, consciousness, or the divine.
The phrase assumes such dimensions are genuinely real, not merely imagined or metaphorical: For her, prayer wasn't symbolic; it connected to spiritual reality.
Often contrasted with material reality or everyday experience, it encompasses what various traditions call the sacred, the transcendent, or the unseen order underlying visible existence.
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- divinitySacred nature or nougat-like sweet
- divine presenceFelt nearness of deity
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
beyond the veil · enlightenment · intuition · moral values · mysticism · archetypes · collective unconscious · metaphysics · cosmic order · dualism · universal consciousness · numinous · essence · inner light · soul · life force · meditation · non-materialism
- Swedenborgianismcorrespondences, glorification, memorabilia, New Jerusalem, literal sense
- Christian ScienceEddy, Concord, animal magnetism, board of directors, Glover
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The material universe
physical world · matter · earthly realm · natural world · flesh
spiritual realityobjective reality
Existence independent of minds
positivism · hard science · empiricism · sensory experience · physical evidence
spiritual realitymaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
worldliness · secular life · carnality · mammon · physicalism
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