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Across 1. The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another. The mental acceptance and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something 3. The Hindu entity who is the union of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva 5. A real or imaginary society / place / state considered to be perfect or ideal. 8. The spark of god within each person 11. A confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing. 12. The belief in one God 14. Common to Hinduism and Buddhism. A word or syllable, usually sacred. It is used as an object of concentration and repeated constanly whilst in a meditative state. It is believed to embody some aspect of spiritual power and bring into being the reality it represents. Use of such mantras usually requires initiation by a guru, or spiritual teacher. 15. A natural, impersonal law of moral cause and effect 21. Part of the spark of God that is you 23. This is the belief that upon death the physical body the soul is eventually born again into another body. 27. This is a western term for the religious beliefs and practices of innumerable sects to which the majority of the people of India belong 28. The religious beliefs and practices and the way of life of the Jewish people 32. A belief in which the soul goes from one body to another, until either time ends or the soul is made pure or complete 35. From God or God like. In other words something heavenly. 36. A magical formula that was used by the Gnostics to invoke the aid of spirits to ward off disease and illness 37. the biblical idea of love. 40. Polytheistic religion derived from worship of gods in African and the beliefs of Catholicism. Practiced mainly by the West Indians 41. The moving or altering of some object solely by use of concentration of thought 44. the study of Gods nature and purpose as taught by the christian church 49. A meeting in which participants attempt to receive messages from spirits of the dead. 50. A person who acts as a spiritual itermediary between the living and the dead 52. perfect 53. targeted to the whole person - mind, body, and spirit 54. An entity which is free of a physical body 55. The permanent end of physical life. 56. similar to and comes from the same Hebrew root word for 'believe'. The translation of this word might best be expressed as 'let it be so', or 'I believe'. 57. A Chinese term for the all-encompassing universal life force 58. God's unmerited favor. It's given to all, freely

Down 2. Earth, water, fire, air, and akasha (or spirit) 4. discipline in which the mind is focused on a single point of reference 6. comes from the sanskrit and means rhythym 7. Christian love as contrasted to erotic love. It can also mean charity 9. The supernatural phenomenon involving suspending a body in midair without any physical help or support 10. (551-479 BC). for more than 2,000 years the Chinese people have been guided by the ideals of ------------. 13. Meaningful coincidences, 'designed' to alert one's attention and/or suggest a course of action. 16. In Buddhism it is the awakening to the ultimate truth and therefore liberated from the cycle of reincarnation. In Hinduism it is a state of divine experience which is represented by Vishnu. It is regarded as the goal of all religion 17. the study of human and animal behavior and mental processes. 18. Filled with the sense of the presence of divinity. It can also mean the spiritual force of a place, object or being. 19. The doctrines and religious groups based on the teachings of Jesus 20. The modern media often use the word to mean the same thing as 'spiritual'. 21. A form of divination by gazing into something, usually a reflective surface 22. Philosophy founded in India in the 6th century B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama 24. Involves "seeing" over distances, with the mind's eye 25. "May the Divine Essence in me embrace the divine essence in you as a divine essence of one." 26. A name for the Divine Being. 29. Muslims believe that God revealed the contents of the _________. 30. A situation where two facts/situations are opposite or contradictory, yet both appear to be (and sometimes are) true 31. the English form of the Greek name Biblia, meaning "books," the name which in the fifth century began to be given to the entire collection of sacred books, the "Library of Divine Revelation." 33. The psychic eye, not physically visible, but mental. Located in the middle of the forehead 34. A mental process, usually in the form of a series of imagined events occuring during certain phases of sleep. 36. A generic term to describe heavenly beings / messengers from beyond the material realm 38. The place of the everlasting blessedness of the righteous; 39. The communication between people of thoughts or feelings by way of the mind or in a way that modern science cannot yet explain 42. Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament 43. The word cosmic refers to the whole of the universe 45. A person through which otherworldly entities can be communicated with, similar to channeling. 46. a medium or channeler, one through whom the departed or the other inhabitants of the spirit world speak through 47. The spirit of a dead person that has remained on the earthly plane, often unaware of the fact that death has occured. Often responsible for 'hauntings' of physical locations 48. A Hindu or Sikh religious teacher or leader giving personal spiritual guidance to his disciples 51. Someone who adheres to a belief system outside of that which is considered orthodox. Orthodox belief systems are that of Judaism, Islam, or Christianity