... them success in life. THE word faith has acquired an almost exclusively theological or institutional connotation. It is, clearly, because of this fact, and in this sense, that H.P.B. in her Key to Theosophy insists that "faith is a word not to be found in theosophical dictionaries." Faith, however, when used to represent a psychological force, or as a reference to powers focused during the ... , but upon the nature of beneficial changes in personality which can be worked. This is a vast improvement over the perversions of "faith healing" described in the last sentence of the passage from...

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... for inducing holotropic states of consciousness (Grof, 1998). In his paper "Might the Gods be Alkaloids?- (Polari de Alverga, 1996), Alex Polari de Alverga suggests that entheogens may hold the key to future spiritual enlightenment. It is important though that one needs to be living the spiritual truths revealed in the drink, as is it stated: "it is not the having ... that is important- (Visitor Information Package). One must work with the transformation of the ego that occurs when ingesting the brew and integrate the teachings into daily life. In the passage below, Polari de Alverga ta...

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