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Where Sun Dances Heal

What the world's ancient shamanic healing traditions can teach us today.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Healing, God, Spirit, Dance, bushman, healing ceremonies, ancestral spirits, World, bushmen dance, seiki movements

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A Hindu Bar Mitzvah

When does a Hindu boy become a man? Like a bar mitzvah, a ceremony happens--with father passing on a secret mantra to his son.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Ceremony, Family, religious nature, Peer Pressure, sons ears, thread, boys family, tremendous learning experience, Goddess, boys father

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Prayers for Coping With Loss

A selection of prayers on death and mourning.

Related Topics: Faiths, Tools, Meditation, Prayer, Love, resting place, Jewish Funeral Care, God, blown grass lifts, Death, dwelling place, Life, Author Unknown

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An 'Impressively Civilized' Exorcism

Psychotherapy or the real thing? A glimpse into a low-key 'deliverance,' complete with demonic visions and cookie breaks

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The Big Love

'The great taboo in our culture has nothing to do with sex, drugs, or controversial theater--it's ecstatic experience.'

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Culture, Experience, Love, Black Church, European culture, Spirit, country preachers, shamanic tradition, youre, Spiritual Quest

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Death Escaped

The holiday of Sukkot helps us understand the Jewish concept of an afterlife (yes--there is such a thing).

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Shamanism Basics

Beliefnet member Ursulaw's essay describing shamanism to new members.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Reality, Shamanism, non ordinary reality, Power Animal, Animal, special connections, shamanic state, shamanic practice, Connection, altered state

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God and a Galaxy Far, Far Away

The new 'Star Wars' movie leaves Anakin Skywalker on the dark side, but for the boys and me it's a theological teaching moment.

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'This May Be the Healthiest Spiritual Practice on the Planet'

An interview with Joyce Thompson, priest of Lucumi, a faith with roots in Africa and Cuba.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Tradition, Religion, Spiritual, medical establishment didnt, lucumi, spiritual concerns, spirit realm, Practice, ancestor, fathers parents

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Jesse KornBluth - Swami Uptown

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