spiritual rebirth
Inner transformation experience
Spiritual rebirth is a profound inner transformation, often understood as dying to an old self and awakening to a new one.
The concept appears across religious traditions—Christians speak of being born again, while Eastern traditions describe enlightenment or liberation.
More loosely, any life-changing renewal of purpose or perspective qualifies: After his illness, he experienced a spiritual rebirth.
- born againSpiritually converted anew
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- new beginningChance to start again
self-discovery · fresh start · phoenix · conversion · born-again · inner transformation · regeneration · turning point · satori · metamorphosis · dark night of the soul · sanctification · catharsis · palingenesis · vision quests · transcendence · resurrection · finding yourself
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
- mysticismmystic, gnosis, divine union, divine spark, mystical
- Hindu ritesdiksha, puja, sacred ceremony, fire ritual, aarti
- Holy SpiritHoly Spirit, pneuma, advocate, helper, third person
- PietismMoravians, Moravian, piety, new birth, conventicle
- religious conversionconvert, baptism, christening, born again, saved
spiritual rebirthspiritual death
Eternal separation from God
apostasy · falling away · backsliding · moral corruption · deconversion
spiritual rebirthdamnation
Eternal punishment decree
perdition · eternal death · condemnation · second death · hell
spiritual rebirthnihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
existential despair · meaninglessness · spiritual emptiness · worldliness · materialism