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THE
INSTITUTE FOR REAL GOD
is
an educational organization devoted to making genuine spirituality
and spiritual practice accessible to as many people as possible.
It offers
a genuine alternative to the most familiar options of our time:
scientific materialism,
conventional
religion, and piecemeal,
"do it yourself" spirituality.
THE
INSTITUTE FOR REAL GOD
is currently
in the process of developing the courses that you see listed on
this site. These courses are not available anywhere else. We've
listed them and provided descriptions so that you can (a) add
yourself to our mailing list now if you want us to notify
you as courses become available; and (b) provide
feedback to us on the courses currently under development,
courses you would like us to develop (if possible), etc.
THE
INSTITUTE FOR REAL GOD
currently has
four departments, each focused on a distinct topic in the overall
field of spirituality:
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THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE DEPARTMENT —
The focus of this department is the question: "Why
Spiritual practice?" That is, "Why
organize one's life around Spiritual practice?" The
department provides education about the insufficiency of
non-spiritual or "piecemeal spiritual" means for
achieving true and lasting happiness for individuals, and
for adequately addressing our own mortality. It also provides
a basic introduction to a spiritual life —
a life organized around genuine spiritual practice —
and contrasts it with the conventional life of materialistic
self-fulfillment.
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THE
SPIRITUAL FUNDAMENTALS DEPARTMENT
—
The focus of this department is the question: "What
is genuine Spiritual practice?" The
department provides detailed education about the process
of tangibly connecting to the Divine Being for real: how
it has been done traditionally, and how it can be done now.
Topics include: the need for a moment-to-moment spiritual
practice, and the need for a Spiritual Master.
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THE
COMPARATIVE SPIRITUALITY DEPARTMENT —
The focus of this department is the question: "Which
Spiritual practice?" Taken together, all
the great wisdom traditions around the world and throughout
history offer a wide variety of views on (and experiences
of) the nature of the Greater Reality and human potential
in the context of the Greater Reality.The focus of this
department is to make sense of and compare the differing
views, placing particular emphasis on the views of materialism,
esoteric spirituality, and exoteric religion; and to emphasize
the difference between "armchair" comparative religion and
empirical comparative spirituality which is based on Spiritual
practice and Realization.
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THE
COOPERATIVE SPIRITUALITY DEPARTMENT
—
The focus of this department is the question: "What
is the function of spirituality in the world?"
This department provides education about the insufficiency
of non-spiritual means (e.g., political, social, or military),
in themselves, for creating a true and lasting world peace
or world order. It provides education on how to draw the
Divine Power into this otherwise mad world, both through
the conversion of every aspect of one's individual life,
and through the transformation of all relationships —
both on a local and a global scale —
via self-transcendence. Egoic principles such as "an
eye for an eye" will never finally be overcome otherwise.
It also provides education on the various forces in the
world that actively work to suppress the real use of Divine
Power, particularly in the form of discrimination against
new religious movements.
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State Hwy 281 PMB 5034 Kelseyville, CA 95451-9636
email: response@RealGod.org
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