Spiritual

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Spiritual is the adjective for spirit (animating force or supernatural entity).

Spiritual may also refer to:

Religion

Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
- Spiritual attack, an attack by Satan and his demons on a Christian
- Spiritual body, a Christian term for resurrection
- Spiritual but not religious, a religious categorization
- Spiritual bypass, a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks"
- Spiritual communion, a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
- Spiritual crisis, a form of identity crisis where an individual experiences drastic changes to their meaning system typically because of a spontaneous spiritual experience
- Spiritual death, absence of spirituality
- Spiritual development, the development of the personality towards a religious or spiritual desired better personality
- Spiritual direction, the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own personal spirituality
- Spiritual distress, a disturbance in a person's belief system
- Spiritual ecology, a field in religion and environmentalism
- Spiritual energy, a form of energy in spirituality and alternative medicine
- Spiritual evolution, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings evolve
- Spiritual experience, a subjective experience in religion
- Spiritual formation, the process and practices by which a person may progress in one's spiritual or religious life or to a movement in Protestantism
- Spiritual gift, a supernatural power given by God
- Spiritual healing, a form of alternative medicine
- Spiritual intelligence, a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with intelligence quotient and emotional quotient
- Spiritual Israelite, a member of the Assemblies of Yahweh of Bethel, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Spiritual literature, a genre of literature, in which usually involves the personal spiritual experience of the author
- Spiritual materialism, a Tibetan Buddhist concept
- Spiritual naturalism, a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world
- Spiritual opportunism, the exploitation of spiritual ideas for personal gain, partisan interests or selfish motives
- Spiritual philosophy, a philosophy pertaining to spirituality
- Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a spirit may take temporary control of a human body
- Spiritual practice, a way of exercising spirituality
- Spiritual psychology, a school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology
- Spiritual reading, a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness
- Spiritual retreat, a place or state dedicated to spirituality
- Spiritual test, a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man's individual moral character and obedience to his laws
- Spiritual transformation, a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life
- Spiritual warfare, the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces
- Spiritual warrior, a term used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the ignorance (avidyā)
Spirituals, a branch of the 13th-century Franciscans espousing poverty as obligatory
- Spiritual Franciscans, extreme proponents of the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty
Lords Spiritual, the clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
Spiritual Baptists, a syncretic Afro-American religion that combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity
Spiritual Christianity, a Christian denomination in Russia
Spiritual church movement, a group of Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations

Music

Spirituals, a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans
Spirituals (David Murray album), 1988
Spirituals (Paul Robeson album), 1946
Spirituals (Santigold album), 2022
The Spiritual, a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
"Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry from her 2013 album Prism