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Caliphs	Four rightly guided deputies, representatives, or successors of Mohammed.
Causal quest (CQ)	primal spiritual urge that induces search for the purpose and truth of life.
Celibacy	Religiously motivated abstinence from sexual relations. Chakras - Hindu teaching (6 wheels) of internal physical cosmic centers from which shakti or chi flows.
Challenge	something that, by its nature or character, serves as a test or obstacle.
Chanting	Method of memorizing and transmitting sacred scripture through the generations.
Character	Well-established and structured pattern of behavior; reflected in behavior and relations.
Chinook Learning Society	Native American Earth-spirit philosophy; shamanistic philosophy.
Chiromancy (palmistry)	Occult practice of fortunetelling by reading shape and lines of one's hand.
Christian Science	Christian polytheistic cult that believes in natural healing through right thinking.
Church Universal and Triumphant	New age community adheres to psycho-spiritual consciousness.
Circumcision- Islamic / Judaic initiation ritual	(removal of foreskin or female external genitalia).
Cognition	Logical process of knowing; concious awareness; perception.
Coincidence	Act, fact, or condition of a striking occurrence by chance of two or more events.
Community	a social group who have ideals and norms in common.
Completion	Act of finishing or the state of being fulfilled; also the conclusion.
Compulsion	Strong, usu. irresistible impulse to act irrationally or contrary to one's will.
Confession	To declare, acknowledge, or admit a personal fault, crime, misdeed, or weakness to another person and/or to God; For Christians, also to declare, acknowledge or admit personal faith.
Confidentiality	The appropriate restraint from repeating non-criminal personal information.
Confirmation	Christian rite involving the laying on of hands with prayer. Used as affirmation for infant baptism; akin to Jewish bar or bat mitzvah.
Confucianism	Chinese philosophic ethical teaching; either social or intuitive in nature.
Conscience	The moral or ethical aspect of conduct; Culturally learned urge to prefer right over wrong.
Conscious	mental activity arising from or determined by active deliberation; moral or ethical aspect of conduct.
Consequences	The effects, results, or outcome of motives, attitudes, decisions, and/or actions.
Constitution	physical capacity or tendency for health over sustained periods.
Consummation	Act of achieving a goal, desire, agreement, or contract.
Content	Personal satisfaction with present who and what one is, acknowledging need for maturity.
Conversion	The inward moral and spiritual orientation and transition yielding adoption of religious belief and practice; Can be sudden or more commonly gradual in nature.
Covenant	Binding agreement to which all parties, including YHWH, are subservient.
Cow	Hindu sacred animal treated with deference and not killed; five products (milk, ghee, curds, urine, and dung) are used in purification ritual for diet, cleansing agent, and fuel.
Craving	a physical or subconcious yearning; to eagerly require a specific need.
Creed	Authoritative formal concise statements of essential religious belief.
Cult	Beliefs and practices associated with any particular group which forms a distinctive part of a larger religious body; overemphasis of one religious doctrine, animal, deity or aspect is typical.
Cultural	behavior defined by nationality, religion, ethnicity or environment of origin.
Cycle	a recurring and predictable series of events.