Spiritual Learning Outcomes

Beginning Exploration

In our culture, we have just begun serious discussion and exploration of the question: individually, what is the outcome of spiritual learning?

Often in the past, familiar examples of spiritually advanced travelers fell into the category of popular 'Hollywood characterizations." For example, I remember my friends when we began our spiritual journey wondering, after we had suffered and purified self, 'will God talk to us and tell us how to part the Red Sea?' Or after we perform 3 miracles, will we be ready for sainthood?' Being unfamiliar with actual outcomes, often we made-up jokes about all of this.

In our culture, the skills and capacities of 'wise one' have been transferred to a whole host of 'professionals.' We have guidance counselors, fortune tellers, therapists, life coaches, clergy, physicians, scientists and self-help books to tackle questions like: How do we reach human excellence? At what point do science, religion and medicine meet? Or how is spiritual development helpful in our highly complex daily life?

Spirituality in the Modern Era

The Modern era is characterized with global of information, easily accessible and easily accessible, many things that make humans left in confidence because the information may differ from that in the follow previous conviction, despite the new information is certainly not necessarily true. Besides the many problems of life make our time is limited to enhance the spirituality that has built since childhood. Since the number of incoming information makes us begin to switch to other beliefs.

In this situation, spiritual beliefs shifted little by little and in a long time, then the confidence will be completely depleted. This challenge will make us have to lock ourselves for spiritual we are not defeated by the globalization of information

Our spirituality in the modern era colonized mainly at the workplace. Works as a tool to search for dollars and no dedication and service to the social community. Another problem is, the demands of an employee who provides services to the physical and not spiritual improvement. Spiritual values which made only passive and apply around the physical rather than mental-spiritual. In an era will come every company should be providing spiritual learning, to improve physical performance and strengthen the faith as a spiritual care

Spiritual Away

In the spiritual life of each has its own different way among scholars, the one with the scholars' other. Also pursued different stages, such as Ar-Rumi's journey with stanza stanza poem, while Rabiah Al Adawiyah to be alone without a companion in her life, what matters is the journey that leads man into a man who is close to his god.

There are several steps that must be taken of them is, by learning to concentrate only to the commands of God, by meditation or contemplation and satisfy the mind with the greatness of God, contemplation is expected to burn up all desires are bad like the attitude of pride, envy, jealousy and other forth. From meditation will produce feelings of love to the will of god.

Usually at the beginning of meditation there is only a speck of light that enters the liver, then disappeared again, and this will run continuously until the light eventually will settle in the liver and are increasingly expanding