Enlightenment (spiritual)
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Enlightenment can refer to many different concepts. In a secular or non-Buddhist context, the word enlightenment often means "full comprehension of a situation". Spiritual enlightenment means to obtain a spiritual revelation or deep insight into the meaning and purpose of all things, to communicate with or understand the mind of God, or to achieve some other type of profound spiritual understanding. Some scientists believe that during meditative states leading up to the subjective experience of enlightenment there are actual physical changes in the brain.
See also
- Ego death
- Falun Gong
- Fana (Sufism)
- Henosis
- Light (theology)
- Light of Christ
- Merit (Buddhism)
- Salvation
- Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- Osho
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