Spiritual is the adjective for

spirit Spirit or spirits may refer to: Liquor and other volatile liquids * Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks * Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol * Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...

. Spiritual may also refer to:

Religion

Spirituality The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...

, a concern with matters of the spirit **

Spiritual attack Spirit possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. The concept of spirit possession exists in many cultures and re ...

, an attack by Satan and his demons on a Christian **

Spiritual body In Christianity, the apostle Paul introduced the concept of the spiritual body (Koine Greek: ) in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 15:44), describing the resurrected body as "spiritual" () in contrast to the natural () body: Christian teaching ...

, a Christian term for resurrection **

Spiritual but not religious "Spiritual but not religious" (SBNR), also known as "spiritual but not affiliated" (SBNA), is a popular phrase and initialism used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that does not regard organized religion as the sole or most valuable ...

, a religious categorization **

Spiritual bypass Spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". The term was introduced in the mid 1980s ...

, a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks" **

Spiritual communion Spiritual communion is a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. It is used as a preparation for Mass and by individuals who cannot receive holy communion. This practice is well established in Lutheran, Anglican, ...

, a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist **

Spiritual crisis Spiritual crisis (also called "spiritual emergency") is a form of identity crisis where an individual experiences drastic changes to their meaning system (i.e., their unique purposes, goals, values, attitude and beliefs, identity, and focus) typi ...

, a form of identity crisis where an individual experiences drastic changes to their meaning system typically because of a spontaneous spiritual experience **

Spiritual death The concept of spiritual death has varying meanings in various uses and contexts. Buddhism Buddhadasa called ''duḥkha'' spiritual death. Sangharakshita uses the term "spiritual death" to describe one stage in a system of meditation, where insi ...

, absence of spirituality **

Spiritual development The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...

, the development of the personality towards a religious or spiritual desired better personality **

Spiritual direction Spiritual direction is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their personal spirituality. The person seeking direction shares stories of their encounters of the div ...

, the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own personal spirituality **

Spiritual distress Spiritual distress is a disturbance in a person's belief system. As an approved nursing diagnosis, spiritual distress is defined as "a disruption in the life principle that pervades a person's entire being and that integrates and transcends one's ...

, a disturbance in a person's belief system **

Spiritual ecology Spiritual ecology is an emerging field in religion, conservation, and academia recognizing that there is a spiritual facet to all issues related to conservation, environmentalism, and earth stewardship. Proponents of Spiritual Ecology assert a nee ...

, a field in religion and environmentalism **

Spiritual energy Proponents and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine refer to a variety of claimed experiences and phenomena as being due to "energy" or "force" that defy measurement and thus are distinguished from t ...

, a form of energy in spirituality and alternative medicine **

Spiritual enlightenment Used in a religious sense, enlightenment translates several Glossary of Buddhism, Buddhist terms and concepts, most notably ''bodhi'', ''kensho,'' and ''satori''. Related terms from Asian religions are ''kaivalya'' and ''moksha'' (liberation) in ...

, the "full comprehension of a situation" **

Spiritual evolution Spiritual evolution, also called higher evolution, is the idea that the mind or spirit, in analogy to biological evolution, collectively evolves from a simple form dominated by nature, to a higher form dominated by the Spiritual or Divine. It is di ...

, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings evolve **

Spiritual experience A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defens ...

, a subjective experience in religion **

Spiritual formation Spiritual formation may refer either to the process and practices by which a person may progress in one's spiritual or religious life or to a movement in Protestant Christianity that emphasizes these processes and practices. The processes may inc ...

, the process and practices by which a person may progress in one's spiritual or religious life or to a movement in Protestantism **

Spiritual gift A spiritual gift or charism (plural: charisms or charismata; in Greek singular: χάρισμα ''charisma'', plural: χαρίσματα ''charismata'') is an extraordinary power given by the Holy Spirit."Spiritual gifts". ''A Dictionary of the ...

, a supernatural power given by God **

Spiritual healing Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into a patient and effect positive results. Practitioners use a number of names including various synonyms for m ...

, a form of alternative medicine **

Spiritual intelligence Spiritual intelligence is a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and EQ (Emotional Quotient). Origins Danah Zohar coined the term "spiritual inte ...

, a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with intelligence quotient and emotional quotient **

Spiritual literature Spiritual literature is a genre of literature, in which usually involves the personal spiritual experience of the author, in form of diary, autobiography, self-dialogue etc.. Famous spiritual literature * ''Vägmärken'' (''Markings'') by Dag Ha ...

, a genre of literature, in which usually involves the personal spiritual experience of the author **

Spiritual materialism ''Spiritual materialism'' is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book ''Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism''. The book is a compendium of his talks explaining Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center in Boulder, Colora ...

, a Tibetan Buddhist concept **

Spiritual naturalism Spiritual naturalism, or naturalistic spirituality combines a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world. Spiritual naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1895 in his book ''En Route''. Coming into ...

, a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world **

Spiritual opportunism Spiritual opportunism refers to the exploitation of spiritual ideas (or of the spirituality of others, or of spiritual authority): for personal gain, partisan interests or selfish motives. Usually the implication is that doing so is unprincipled in ...

, the exploitation of spiritual ideas for personal gain, partisan interests or selfish motives **

Spiritual philosophy Spiritual philosophy is any philosophy or teaching that pertains to spirituality. It may incorporate religious or esoteric themes. It can include any belief or thought system that embraces the existence of a reality that cannot be physically perc ...

, a philosophy pertaining to spirituality **

Spiritual possession Spirit possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. The concept of spirit possession exists in many cultures and reli ...

, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a spirit may take temporary control of a human body **

Spiritual practice A spiritual practice or spiritual discipline (often including spiritual exercises) is the regular or full-time performance of actions and activities undertaken for the purpose of inducing spiritual experiences and cultivating spiritual developme ...

, a way of exercising spirituality **

Spiritual psychology Transpersonal psychology, or spiritual psychology, is a sub-field or school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology. The ''transpersonal'' is defined a ...

, a school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology **

Spiritual reading {{No footnotes, date=March 2011 Spiritual reading is a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness. Spiritual reading is devoted to the reading of lives of saints, writings of Doctors and the ...

, a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness **

Spiritual retreat The meaning of a spiritual retreat can be different for different religious communities. Spiritual retreats are an integral part of many Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian and Sufi communities. In Hinduism and Buddhism, meditative retreats are ...

, a place or state dedicated to spirituality ** Spiritual test, a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man's individual moral character and obedience to his laws **

Spiritual transformation Spiritual transformation involves a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life. Psychologists examine spiritual transformation within the context of an individual's ''meaning system'', Israela Silberman (2005)Religion as a meanin ...

, a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life **

Spiritual warfare Spiritual warfare is the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces. It is based on the biblical belief in evil spirits, or demons, that are said to intervene in human affairs in various ways. Although spiritua ...

, the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces **

Spiritual warrior The term spiritual warrior is used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the universal enemy: self-ignorance ( avidya), the ultimate source of suffering according to Buddhist philosophy. Different from other paths, which focus on individual sal ...

, a term used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the ignorance (avidyā) *Spirituals, a branch of the 13th-century

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espousing poverty as obligatory **

Spiritual Franciscans The Fraticelli (Italian for "Little Brethren") or Spiritual Franciscans opposed changes to the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty, and regarded the wealth of the Church as scandalous, and that of individual church ...

, extreme proponents of the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty *

Lords Spiritual The Lords Spiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who serve in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. 26 out of the 42 diocesan bishops and archbishops of the Church of England serve as Lords Spiritual (not counting retired archbi ...

, the clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords *

Spiritual Baptists The Spiritual Baptist faith is a Christian religion created by enslaved Africans in the plantations they came to in the former British West Indies countries predominantly in the islands of a Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and the ...

, a syncretic Afro-American religion that combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity *

Spiritual Christianity Spiritual Christianity (russian: духовное христианство) is the group of belief systems held by so-called ''folk Protestants'' (), including non-Eastern Orthodox indigenous faith tribes and new religious movements that emerge ...

, a Christian denomination in Russia *

Spiritual church movement The spiritual church movement is an informal name for a group of loosely allied and also independent Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations that have in common that they have been historically based in the African American communit ...

, a group of Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations

Music

Spiritual (music) Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with Black Americans, which merged sub-Saharan African cultural heritage with the ex ...

, an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text *''

The Spiritual ''The Spiritual'' is an album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in 1969 for the Freedom label as the same sessions that produced ''Tutankhamun''.

'', a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago *"Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry from her 2013 album ''

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Spiritual successor A spiritual successor (sometimes called a spiritual sequel) is a product or fictional work that is similar to, or directly inspired by, another previous work, but (unlike a traditional prequel or sequel) does not explicitly continue the product lin ...

, a follow-up work that does not directly continue the canon of its predecessor

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