This page groups practices by how settled their scholarly classification is. Wikipedia notes that "starting about 1920, 'cult' acquired an additional six or more positive and negative definitions," a term whose meaning has shifted considerably. Browsing this way lets a visitor see which practices scholars describe consistently and which remain genuinely contested.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingPractices 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 Learn More
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.
Scholarly Standing
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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