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Are you interested in spiritual retreat, spiritual growth, spiritual books, spiritual guides and the spiritual journey?

You are not alone!

Spiritual Retreat

You can go on a spiritual retreat, with a very wide range of traditions and styles to choose from. Some spiritual retreats include spiritual counseling, some are silent!

The Retreat Association is the definitive guide for the UK, though limited to Christian organisations. They publish an annual guide in magazine format, as well as the web site.
Findhorn Foundation - their "Experience Week" is highly transformative and recommended.
Buddhist Meditation and Other Retreat Centres in the UK
Yoga Village UK

Quaker UK Spiritual Healing Centres

The following offer informal healing "retreats", e.g. for convalescence, and also a program of short structured courses:

Claridge House, Friends Fellowship of Healing, Surrey
Charney Manor, Conference Centre and Retreat House.
Glenthorne Country Guest House and Quaker Conference Centre.

Spiritual Growth

seems to have little to do with organised religion!

It does not matter what you call it: God, higher self, universal spirit, field of being.... the retail packaging differs, but at the wholesale level they all seem to be talking about the same thing (including the quantum physicists):

you manifest and become what you think about;
what you pay attention to increases in your life.
most people are asleep most of the time.
most of what passes for religion is a distraction at best, and may be harmful.
ceremonies may have their place and their use but they are not essential.

Gandhi is reputed to have said "In heaven there is no religion, thank God".

On a Spiritual Journey?

Each person has to find their own path, whereby they fulfil themselves and either reach "enlightenment", or just "be" in the present.

or just being...?

Even stranger, some of the Zen Buddhists seem to agree with the millionaires that enlightenment is just being (present in this world), and that all the rest, the "spiritual" stuff, is just an invention of mind.

Be still and know that I am God
Be still and know that I am
Be still and know
Be still
Be

Spiritual Schools

Personally recommended

White Eagle Lodge, a path of love, tolerance and service towards all life, expressed through healing. Associated with the StarLink network of Light.
Findhorn Foundation - based on the values of planetary service, co-creation with nature and attunement to the divinity within all beings.