Ascension is a modern spirituality term describing perceived rises in consciousness, often framed as self-transcendence. It blends New Age and esoteric ideas with practices like meditation, energy work, and ethics, while research debates metaphysical claims.
Divine messengers across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The entry surveys origins, roles, hierarchies, and scholarship, from biblical terms and Second Temple texts to late antique Christianity and Islamic hadith.
An esoteric term for a luminous or vibrational field said to surround living beings, linked to subtle-body models and Theosophy. Popular aura photography reflects corona discharge effects, and controlled tests find no reliable detection of a human energy field.