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This page groups practices by whether they are a required duty or a voluntary devotion. Wikipedia notes that cultus "implies the necessity of active maintenance beyond passive adoration," a distinction between merely believing and actually being obliged to act. Browsing this way lets a visitor separate a commanded practice from one an adherent may take up or leave off freely.

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Practices whose frame is modern depth psychology rather than any religious tradition - the Jungian vocabulary of shadow, projection and individuation taken up as spiritual work from the mid-twentieth century onward. It is not a category of the comparative study of religion; it is here because the practices are performed as spiritual work. 2
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The Psychological Practices

This small group gathers a psychological practice, a discipline of inner work and self-examination directed at the transformation of the mind and personality, whether in a traditional or a modern spiritual framework.

The browser will find the practice the atlas classes here. The entry describes its method and aim.

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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Brill, 1996View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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