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VOLUME 10 ISSUE 1 SPRING 2024

Editorial 1
Self-Investigation and Self-Surrender: The Core Teachings of Bhagavan Ramana 2
1 Introduction 4
2 We Like to Be Happy Because Happiness Is Our Real Nature 4
3 To Experience Infinite Happiness, We Must Investigate and Know What We Actually Are 5
4 Though We Always Know Ourself, We Do Not Know Ourself as We Actually Are 6
5 If We Are Not What We Now Seem to Be, Then What Are We? 6
6 Our Aim Is Not Manōlaya But Manōnāśa 7
7 The Nature of Ego 9
8 Can We Not Achieve Manōnāśa by Bhakti? 10
9 Being as We Actually Are Is Supreme Devotion to God 12
10 Being as We Actually Are Is Karma, Bhakti, Yōga and Jñāna 13
11 Investigating Ego Is Fulfilling the Purpose of All Spiritual Paths 13
12 We Can Give Ourself to God Only by Being Steadfastly Self-Attentive 14
13 Knowing Ourself Without Adjuncts Is Itself Knowing God 17
14 Being Ourself Alone Is Knowing Ourself 18
15 When We Know Ourself, There Is Nothing Else To Know 19
16 How Should We Apply the Mahāvākyas in Practice? 20
17 We Cannot Know God Except by Turning Our Mind Back Within 23
18 The Practice of Self-Investigation 24
19 The essential role of grace 27
20 This Path of Self-Investigation Is Exceedingly Easy 28
21 Investigating Ourself Is Giving Up Everything 29
22 Subsiding Deep Within Is Alone True Goodness 30
23 Conclusion 31
Notes 32
References 39
Entheogens and Sacred Psychology 41
1 Introduction 42
2 Psychedelics in the Modern World 43
3 Shadows of the Psychedelic Renaissance 45
4 María Sabina and the Appropriation of the Sacred 47
5 In Quest of Integrative Mental Health 48
6 Differentiating Psychic from Spiritual Realities 50
7 The Transpersonal Dimension of Healing 52
8 Set and Setting 52
9 Entheogenic Therapy 53
10 Trauma, Entheogens, and the Self 55
11 The Therapeutic Posture 56
12 The Meaning of Integration 57
13 The Dangers (and Potential) of Secular Approaches 59
14 Pitfalls of a Chemical Utopia 60
15 Conclusion 61
Notes 63
Acknowledgment 63
References 64
Interpreting UFO Events in a Post-Religious Culture 70
1 Introduction 72
2 Why It Is Arbitrary to Dismiss the Spiritual Explanation 72
3 An Eastern Christian Perspective on UFO Phenomena 73
4 Theory and Methods 74
5 Results 74
6 Conclusion 76
Notes 77
References 77
Hermeneutics of Scripture and its Relation to Personal Spirituality according to Gregory the Great 79
1 Introduction 80
2 Methodology 80
3 Bible Reading as a Foundation for Personal Christian Spirituality 80
4 The Idea of the Sacred Text as a Gift from God 81
5 Meanings of the Holy Scriptures 82
6 Effects of Reading the Holy Scriptures 82
7 The Relation between the Lecture and Personal Spirituality 83
8 Conclusion 83
Note 84
Acknowledgement 84
References 85
Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents in the Context of Spirituality and Life Satisfaction 86
1 Introduction 88
2 Methods 89
2.1 Sample and Procedure 89
2.2 Measures 90
2.3 Results 90
3 Discussion 93
4 Conclusion 93
Acknowlegement 93
References 94
Mission 99

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