Ashram-like communities can develop lexicon that is thick with a jargon for spiritual experience, jargon that can work as its own peculiar shorthand for those within the experience of a community. As one looks in to historic groups you can find this in the writings of spiritual practice ashram-like communities. Such as with monastic orders, in the Shaker experience, with the mystics of the Amana group, in old silent Quakers and in more contemporary groups like in Yogananda’s SRF communities. I hear this too in some of my x-ian friends speaking to their inner spiritual experience, a developed technical language that operates as being descriptive for them. Recently there is a book out from inside the TM movement that fabulous resource as to a reference in to a communal group’s lexicon of spiritual experience. Thick reading but for the scholar of this.. This is still available.. The book: Invincible America Assembly Experiences Invincible America Assembly Experiences of Higher States of Consciousness https://www.mumpress.com/other-authors/invincible-america-assembly-experiences.html https://www.mumpress.com/other-authors/invincible-america-assembly-experiences.html
[FairfieldLife] Communal jargon, Spiritual lexicon
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