Talk:Spiritual awakening

Articles for Deletion debate
This article was redirected to Religious experience as a result of an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash talk 00:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

== Restore this page =

Having looked at the reason as to why this article was merged with 'religous experience', it seems that a previous contributor blurred the distinction between a religious experience as opposed to a spiritual awakening.

The term spiritual awakening is most commonly found within 12 step recovery material, it is certainly distinct from any form of religous experience, as 12 step fellowships all clearly state that their programmes of recovery are NOT religious.

So not only are we not talking here about religion, neither are we talking about an 'experience' but an 'awakening', the inference being that we are returning to a previous state, not some new, previously non-existant state.

The ethos of 12 step reovery is such that it allows a wide and personal interpretation of the term spiritual, thus definition becomes difficult and open to debate.

From a personal perspective spiritual awakening involves a new or re-newd awareness of spirit or soul, recognition that as a human being i am not a discreet, essentially solitary entity but part of a universal system of existence. Thereby realising I no longer have to be at odds with the universe constantly and unsuccesfully seeking to control everything, but can accept the 'bigger picture' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garuda77 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)