Dear Fr. Alexander,

https://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/occult_e.htm

unhealthy "black spirituality" of the occult. Here also there is an element of the supernatural and a search for help, but it is sought not from the Creator but from som

Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits

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sense of morality and spirituality, and the cause of this effect is God. Mystical Proof .  God can be experienced directly. Pascal's Wager .  Blaise Pascal argued that i

PSYCHOLOGY OF SPIRITUAL SECTS. The psychological dynamics underlying spiritual movements.

https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/psymove.html

be found in any book on spirituality nowadays found in the bookshop around the corner. Whether the guru bases his wise words on actual experience or on hearsay is difficult to asc
Psychological processes operative in spiritual groups should be understood lest they do harm to the movement.

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