The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2275 page)

 
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Silva Mind Control
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Established by Jose Silva in Mexico and the USA in 1966, this is a method for increasing the powers of the mind. The claim is to provide ‘the science of tomorrow—today’. ‘Dynamic meditation’ is held to provide contact with the ‘Alpha dimension’, a level of consciousness belonging to the spiritual world.

 
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see
CHRYSOSTOM
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see
VINAYA
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(1759–1836)
. Second-generation leader of the
Evangelical
Revival. Appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, in 1782, he gave himself to expository preaching, and to a long ministry to undergraduates. His Simeon Trust was formed to purchase livings for evangelicals. His loyalty to the Church of England never wavered and he insisted on the primacy of parish work over itinerancy.

 
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BAR KOKHBA, SIMEON.

 
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