Articles & Books From General Religion & Spirituality

Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-12-2025
Whether you’re an experienced tarot or oracle card reader or just acquired your first deck, this Cheat Sheet is a quick guide to help you along your card-reading journey. Find tips for reading at events, help with what card symbols mean, and ways to avoid cold reading. And if you’ve wondered if a digital deck is just as good as a printed one, this Cheat Sheet covers that, too.
Tarot & Oracle Card Reading For Dummies
Learn to divine the wisdom of the cards with this beginner-friendly reference Tarot & Oracle Card Reading For Dummies gives you the tools and expertise you need to become the savvy card reader you've always wanted to be. Inside, you'll find complete information on the meanings of the 78 tarot cards as well as insights into working with oracle card decks of all kinds.
World Religions All-in-One For Dummies
Learn about the beliefs, history, and culture of the world's most popular religions World Religions All-In-One For Dummies offers an easy starting point for anyone curious to investigate religious and cultural differences. In terms anyone can understand, this book explains the foundations of major world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism, Catholicism, and Taoism.
Article / Updated 03-22-2024
Millions of people around the world are celebrating major holidays in March and April. While Muslims are observing their holy month of Ramadan, both Easter and Passover fall in the spring as well. Here's an overview of how Muslims, Christians, and Jews are celebrating these holidays. ©Odua Images / Adobe StockAn Eid al-Fitr celebration Ramadan Ramadan began on March 10 and will finish on Eid al-Fitr (the festival of the breaking of the fast), which is April 10.
Article / Updated 03-31-2022
At the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, families break the fast and celebrate during a three-day festival called Eid al-Fitr (Eid means "recurring event,"and Fitr means "break"). It is also known as HariRaya Puasa in Southeast Asia and Seker Bayrami in Turkey. Greetings of "Eid-Mubarak!" ("A Blessed Eid!
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-14-2022
Spirituality goes deep into the heart of every matter and extends far beyond the physical world of matter. Understanding what spiritual principles are (and aren't), can help to improve your life, empower your mind, and nourish your soul. Whether you’re looking for happiness, inner peace, or supreme enlightenment, no knowledge can propel you to achieve your personal goals and provide as effective a plan for living as does spiritual knowledge.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-10-2022
Knowing the people who founded and shaped major religions of the world — along with fundamental beliefs and practices of Buddhism, Islam, and Shinto — will lead you to a better understanding of religion.The Eightfold Path of BuddhismThe Eightfold Path of Buddhism, also called the Middle Path or Middle Way, is the system of following these eight divisions of the path to achieve spiritual enlightenment and cease suffering: Right understanding: Understanding that the Four Noble Truths are noble and true.
Article / Updated 12-03-2021
One of the great gifts of spiritual knowledge is that it realigns your sense of self to something you may not have even ever imagined was within you. Spirituality says that even if you think you're limited and small, it simply isn't so. © True Touch Lifestyle / Shutterstock.comYou're greater and more powerful than you have ever imagined.
Article / Updated 10-08-2021
In 1966, Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies at California State University, created a uniquely African American and Pan-African holiday called Kwanzaa, which is celebrated from December through January first.Kwanzaa is related to many African celebrations of the first harvest. The name Kwanzaa comes from a Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza,” which translates as first fruits.
Step by Step / Updated 03-08-2017
The following exercise can help you to rise above the illusions of your own life-movie by giving you a way to practice controlling your levels of absorption in the illusions of a theatrical movie. Some religious and spiritual traditions guide you to withdraw from the world and to hide yourself in a cave or go to a mountaintop where you can escape the illusions of life.