Sentences with phrase «other sacred rituals»

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For example, the Torah [the first five books of the Bible] assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

For example, the Torah assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

Christian liturgy, like other forms of sacred rituals, is «an efficacious performance that invokes the presence and action of powers which, without the ritual, would not be present or active at that time and place.»

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

Tracee's been a guest on many prominent television and radio programs informing others about spirituality and sacred ritual practices.

It is thought that those in this bardo are very sensitive to the thoughts of those they knew in life, and consequently chants, prayers, reading sacred texts and other rituals may guide those in this confused state.

Where the literary proposals of the original mirrors for princes contemplate the divisions between self and other, male and female, sacred and profane, Slavs and Tatars» turn to everyday ritual casts governance as self - governance, a universe of ambiguities, or in their own words: «the heart and art of politics.»

His paintings encapsulate the most recent stage of his style as it has evolved since 1987, three years after he «came in» from the remote desert to live in Papunya, an Indigenous settlement.4 Like other tribal elders with major ritual responsibilities, Warlimpirrnga creates «ground paintings» on the desert floor for sacred yet secret ceremonies.

Some of the imagery focuses on emotion and the physical while other panels depict the sacred rituals of life.

Follow Hedy and Yumi into their Adventure in Intimacy workshops in Vancouver, Vienna and Israel where you will witness the transformation of couples as they are «Crossing the Bridge» to each other, an intimate ritual designed to eliminate the emotional pollution that exists in the «sacred space» of our relationships.