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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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.
A standard analytic category in the study of religion
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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
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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