spiritual world
Beyond physical existence
The spiritual world is the realm of souls, spirits, and the divine—everything that exists beyond physical matter.
Religious traditions describe it as the domain of God, angels, demons, and the dead.
The term implies a parallel existence alongside or beyond the material world: She believed her grandmother was watching over her from the spiritual world.
In some uses, it contrasts with worldly concerns: He retreated from business to focus on the spiritual world.
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- limboState of uncertain waiting
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
underworld · nirvana · reincarnation · resurrection · judgment · salvation · damnation · eternity
Innermost animating essence
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- divinitySacred nature or nougat-like sweet
sacred · sanctity · faith · dharma · chi · chakras · aura · prana
heaven
Sky or bliss
paradise · underworld · nirvana · reincarnation · resurrection · judgment · salvation · damnation · eternity · immortality
soul
Innermost animating essence
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
divinity · sacred · sanctity · faith · dharma · chi · chakras · aura · prana · grace
meditation
Focused attention practice
mantra · fasting · pilgrimage · ceremony · devotion · chanting · contemplation · offering · blessing · invocation
- SwedenborgHeaven and Hell, Divine Providence, White Horse, The Last Judgment, Last Judgment
- Swedenborgianismcorrespondences, glorification, memorabilia, New Jerusalem, literal sense
- ZoroastrianismZoroaster, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism, Amesha Spentas, sacred fire
- Religious DualismGnosticism, Zoroastrianism, good and evil, light and darkness, Bogomilism
spiritual worldphysical world
Tangible realm of matter
natural world · physical reality · earthly realm · mortal realm · space-time
spiritual worldmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
worldliness · mammon · consumerism · rat race
spiritual worldphysicalism
All is matter
materialism · scientific worldview · observable universe · naturalism · empiricism
world, spirited, spirits, spiritual, spirituality, dispirited, dispiriting, spiritually, spiritedness