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Oversoul - a spiritual essence or vital force in the universe in which all souls
participate and that therefore transcends individual consciousness.
Transcendentalism - showing the interconnectedness of all life in an almost pantheistic
view of god-in-matter.
Pantheistic - belief in and worship of all gods.
Reintegrate - to restore to a condition of integration or unity.
Ambivalence - the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and
hate, toward a person, object, or idea.
Oracular Jargon - obscure; dark; nonsesical, incoherent.
Allegory - the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures,
or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
Paradigm - one that serves as a pattern or model. A set of assumptions, concepts,
values, and practices that constitutes a way of veiwing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual
discipline.
Epistemology - The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its
presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.
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Metaphysics - an underlying philosophical or theoretical principle: a belief
in luck, the metaphysics of the gambler.
Ratiocination - to resons methodically and logically.
Manifestation - an indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something.
Unitarianism - a monotheist who is not a Christian.
Instrumentalism - views truth as simply the value belonging to cetrain ideas in
so far as those ideas are physological functions whereby we direct our choices and attain our successes.
Ethereal - of the celestial spheres; heavenly, characterized
by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible; highly refined; delicate.
Beatitude - supreme blessedness or happiness; any of the declarations of blessedness
made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Anagogical - a spiritual uplift; a mystical interpretation of a word passage or
text especially scriptual exegesis that detects allusions to heaven or the afterlife.
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