The Spiritual Development Stages in Everyday LanguageIt has taken me eighteen years to understand the spiritual development stages enough that I could write about them. You see, first I ran into them by surprise. Here is a little story about that. At first I was not really willing to accept that these spiritual development stages were really true. I was a little angry at first because if they were true, then I had a lot of work to do because I was not (and still am not!)at the last stage. Then, as I thought it over, I began to realize that they did have some validity. They did match up to my own experience and that of other people I had known. Reading all the different theorists was no easy trick. It took me ten years just to get through a particular one of those books! I don't mean ten whole years. But I would start and stop, start and stop. It was not easy going.
So I have decided to make it easier for my readers. I have tried to condense the works of the into more simple terms that most people can understand. I have named the four stages
Once you read my easy stage summaries, you can probably learn as much from reading the Spiritual Development Stories on this site - AND in my upcoming book BEYOND BELIEF: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind as you can reading the theorists. And the stories are probably more fun! Don't worry - your email will NOT be used for anything else - or shared with others.
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