Sentences with phrase «mystical practices in»

Titled Visionary New England, this contemporary art exhibition is inspired by the impact and legacy of utopian, spiritualist, and mystical practices in the region.

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But I now see more clearly — thanks to the voices of the new theologies allied with the welcome recovery of spirituality within theology — that in practice and thereby in theory this pervasive religious dialectic of manifestation and proclamation is best construed theologically as mystical - prophetic.

Many in the Christian west have been attracted to the non-theistic and more humanistic character of the Buddhist tradition, or to the deep mystical spirituality of the Hindu tradition; others have been attracted to the more physical practice of spirituality to be found in Chinese tradition.

How far the renewed interest of some Christians in the mystical and contemplative traditions is indebted to Hinduism it is hard to say, but Western Christians can still be helped to discover a deeper dimension to life by encounter with the authentic spiritual teaching and practice of Hinduism.

This was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the mystical government of the world.»

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

The reason being, it's been sold in pop culture as kind of new age, mystical practice that seems to magically produce results.

Administrators at Bullard Elementary School in Kennesaw, Georgia, implemented yoga and other mindfulness practices in the classroom to reduce students» stress, but they received an onslaught of complaints from parents who felt they were promoting non-Christian beliefs by «allowing this Far East mystical religion with crystals and chants to be practiced under the guise of stress release meditation.»

«Now we can't pray in our schools or practice Christianity but they are allowing this Far East mystical religion with crystals and chants to be practiced under the guise of stress release meditation,» he wrote.

Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, tells ELLEDecor.com, that purple has rich, transcendent associations, noting,» It's often associated with mindfulness practices, so it has that spiritual or mystical quality that's attached — a little bit of magic that's inferred in the color.»

Cannabis is frequently used among Sufis the mystical interpretation of Islam that exerts strong influence over local Muslim practices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Pakistan.

So Wong (Benedict Wong) is promoted from an Asian sidekick in the comics to a librarian and a master of whatever mystical art it is that the Ancient One practices, often getting the film's best lines.

Vernacular artists Yoakum and Guo Fengyi, whose oracular drawings are inspired by Chinese mystical practices, were featured in the 2013 Carnegie International.

Through these works McGinley had discovered new grounds for his artistic practice, placing his naked subjects in vast and breathtaking landscapes to roam and cavort freely as they please, thereby capturing a sublime and mystical view of the world.

In exploring the visual connections between numbers — exact and absolute units of measurements — and the mystical, wayward ways of luck, as embodied by locals performing for her camera, Cromwell offers a lyric homage to Cuba, the place that's shaped her practice and that continues defying expectations and interpretations.

In his artistic practice, archival and original photographic imagery is combined with mystical, biblical and liturgical Hebrew.

A dynamic saxophonist, composer, improviser, and mixed media sound conceptualist, Roberts's acclaimed artistic practice aims to expose the mystical roots and the intuitive spirit - raising traditions of American creative expression in her music and art.

For artist Elijah Burgher's current show, signification of sexuality is wrapped in the cloak of esoteric practices, including the use of a mystical symbol known as a «sigil» and the invocation of a fictitious cult referred to as the Bachelors of the Dawn.

The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism, philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as «the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.»

Parsons had a long interest in ancient and ethnographic arts, as well as mystical and non-Western spiritual practices, including meditation.

[21] Obeah describes a system of spiritual and mystical beliefs practiced in Jamaica and other black communities of the West Indies.

Keith Kurlander, CEO of Higher Practice, is going to share his personal story of an extremely challenging crisis that began in college and led to discovering a mystical connection between trauma and spirituality, and what's possible in the evolution..