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February 28 by The Running Son

Spiritual Development:

Outcomes and Indicators

by Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.Aug. 1998

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Copyright © 1998 by Frances Vaughan. All rights reserved. Used by the Council on Spiritual Practices with permission.

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Spiritual Development

• Stages of spiritual development
  • Traditional
    • Christian – Fowler’s six stages of faith
    • Buddhist – Ten ox-herding pictures
    • Hindu – seven chakras
    • Sufi – seven levels of self
  • Psychological
    • Egocentric
    • Sociocentric
    • Worldcentric
    • Transpersonal
• Markers
  • Presence
    • Self-awareness
    • awareness of others
    • awareness of relationships
    • authenticity
  • Emotional transformation
    • Compassion replacing judgment
    • Forgiveness replacing anger
    • Expanding circle of empathic identification
  • Motivation
    inner peace: from fear to love
    • cultivation of wisdom: from ignorance to understanding
    • liberation: from bondage to freedom
  • Process
    • belief-faith-experience-identification
    • effort and surrender
    • attention and intention
      • setting a sacred intention
      • self-improvement and self-acceptance
    • from mystical experience to becoming a mystic
  • Purpose
    • relieve suffering
    • awaken new perceptions of reality
    • self-realization and self-transcendence
    • enlightenment
    • connecting life of mind and spirit with action in the world
• Evolution
  • The spiritual path – aspiring to enlightenment
• Involution
  • Experience-gnosis-manifestation-transmission

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For further reading on topics outlined above see:

Vaughan, F. Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions. Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1995. Also Author’s Guild Back-in-Print series, http://www.iUniverse.com.

Vaughan, F. The Inward Arc: Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality. 2nd edition. Nevada City, CA.: Blue Dolphin, 1995 Also Author’s Guild Back-in-Print series, http://www.iUniverse.com.

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