The fifth day of Bali Round Trip will commence after breakfast with a visit Tenganan village, the authenticl ancient Bali aga village, the second stop is Goa Lawah (Bat Cave)
a sacred place with a unique cave full of holy bats.
Today visitors journey inside this mysterious,
sacred place with experience tour guides floating on inner tubes with lights to see the way.
We discuss, among other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft; art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills; art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of
sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.
Not exact matches
But these works,
with the more chaotic backgrounds and the superimposed order on top, appear to focus more on the struggle to reach the (
sacred)
place, rather than achieving it through establishing a void.
It is desirable to have a little table in one's room or one's home dedicated to
sacred things — a
place for the Bible, a cross, a picture of Christ — and not let it get cluttered
with other things.
Early stories such as the encounter
with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and
places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in
sacred rites and customs.
The animistic habit of ascribing to a god a local dwelling -
place and of going to the
sacred spot if one wished to deal
with the god persisted in manifold forms long after animism itself had been left behind.
«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately
with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's
sacred writings were the
place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»
«It was public; it acclaimed the society's connectedness
with the
sacred; it made the streets and plazas
sacred places in addition to the churches and shrines.»
Though, Islam is generally understood to be anti-incarnational the ideas of the imam in the Shia sects, the idea of the Mahdi in Mahdawism, the ideas of sainthood, poles, pirs, mujawirs and murshids, and
places such as tombs of the saints and dargahs are deemed to be infused
with certain amount of the
sacred.
But
place is of fundamental importance in virtually all indigenous religions,
with their
sacred mountains and rivers and caves.
I didn't need this weird demarcation between «
sacred work» and «secular work» — rather all of my life, seen and unseen, celebrated and uncelebrated, radical and utterly ordinary — all of it was a
place to meet
with God and to be transformed.
The church itself commonly became a meeting
place,
with no
sacred character, and needed no special reverence when not in use for services.
When we close the Bible we are left
with an all - loving God who longs to welcome all people, whatever race, gender or orientation, a God to whom everyone is precious and who has
placed in every life a
sacred and unbeatable purpose.
Values must be defended by appealing to other more fundamental values and beliefs that are also yours (perhaps you will refer to the Bible or the Qur «an or some other
sacred text) which are not going to be accepted by those who have basic disagreements
with your point of view in the first
place.
This was the curtain that hung before the Holy of Holies, that
sacred place where only the high priest might enter, and he only on the Day of Atonement, covered
with the blood of sacrifice.
«The Magisterium of the Church, does not forbid that in the present state of the human sciences and
sacred theology, research and discussion, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take
place with regard to
And we have put in their
place a way of identifying Jesus that addresses our questions of meaning and that ties him once again
with the
sacred.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity
with the present state of human sciences and
sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take
place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
In the courtyard he took a pickaxe and, without saying a word, began
with all his strength to break down the Thulasikatte (
place with the
sacred plant Thulasi).
1Co 9:13 Do you not know that those who perform the
sacred rites have their food from the
sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share
with the altar?
In 2012 the lines between the
sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify
with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected
places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)
Staying up there on the mountain
with Jesus and those
sacred sources was for Peter like attending some spiritual retreat for the modern Christian: the quiet time, the holy
place, the aids to worship: stained glass windows, helpful spiritual directors, rich meditations, prayers and songs, celebrating
with thanksgiving the gifts of forgiveness, acceptance and freedom.
Here I touch some of Altizer's concerns, but I am not as anxious to recover the
sacred, since I am starting
with a definition of Protestantism as a movement away from the
sacred place.
This identification of the Ark
with the special presence of Yahweh is repeatedly shown in the narratives, until, as the most
sacred palladium of the nation, it was
placed in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's temple.
On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining
sacred places and customs
with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other
sacred places were taken,
with great slaughter of Moslems, and the crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem was set up.
32 - 34; «J») which preserved a ritual decalogue, and a somewhat later version («E,» having its
place of origin in the north) which associates the ethical decalogue
with the Covenant of the
sacred mountain.
Apparently
with no thought of inconsistency, in a powerful sermon Urban II urged the great company of warriors who were present to turn their swords from fighting their brethren to fighting the Moslems, at that time in possession of the
places held
sacred by Christians and oppressing the pilgrims who thronged them.
Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity
with the present state of human sciences and
sacred theology, research and discussions... take
place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»
Jesus also did away
with temple worship,
sacred relics and
sacred places.
And even when one comes into
sacred places where folk in organized philanthropy, social service or the church are supposedly working unselfishly for the good of men, jealousy is as present as it was on that last night when the Master
with his disciples ate the memorials of his sacrifice and «there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.»
He explained each existence, both by resolving them very skillfully into their primary elements, then by reversing the process and detailing the constitution of the universe and of each part, and the manifold variation and change in every portion of it, until carrying us on
with his wise teaching and arguments, both those which he had learned and those which he had discovered, concerning the
sacred economy of the universe and its faultless constitution, he established a reasonable, in
place of an unreasoning, wonder in our souls.
They are also
sacred places to local Aboriginal people and provide communities
with recreation and tourism.
It is a juice bar; a coffee bar; a charcuterie counter; an appetizing shop outputting pickled herring, smoked oysters, and gravlax; a pizza
place; a sandwich spot; a bakery; and a
sacred space for vegetable dishes so vibrant — carrots in house - made hot sauce, rye berries
with yogurt — they could bring Alice Waters to tears.
«We have a long history
with Big Sandy Lake, and it is actually a very
sacred place for Anishinabe people, so this acquisition was a perfect match for more than just business reasons.
There's a
sacred place at home where they keep anything that has something to do
with Neymar.
Anyone who does not agree wholeheartedly that Arshavin and Chamakh were the worst players to have pulled on the
sacred red -
with - white - sleeves since David Dein was the innocent victim of a boardroom coup has no
place in this bar.
«Science needs to be done in a
sacred place where we can
with objectivity understand both sides of the issue,» said Shah.
This practice of shifting attention from the mind to the Stillness of the heart brings depth; connecting us
with the
sacred dimension of our being, and anchoring life in a
place of increased Peace, Joy, Love, and Freedom.
Through some devious narrative calculus, Al - Mansour has
placed an innocent young girl at bitter odds
with a rigidly defined interpretation of a
sacred text.
As a teacher, the library has always been an important, almost
sacred place for me to go
with my students.
With this in mind, ACE works to bolster the ever - increasing standard for academic excellence in Catholic schools, while maintaining — indeed, reinvigorating — the Catholic culture and identity that make these
sacred places one our of greatest national treasures.
Still, the United States seems to be heading towards taking the decisions about American education out of the hands of American educators and instead
placing that
sacred trust in the welcoming arms of an industry run entirely without oversight and populated completely
with for - profit companies chasing billions of dollars in business
With an expert nurse named Kathy as guide through her mother's nine - day stay, Cobb came to see hospice as a place where the ordinary dovetails with the sacred every day... our time in hospice was infused with miracles, ordinary miracles, which I have come to believe are part of the spiritual energy that surrounds every de
With an expert nurse named Kathy as guide through her mother's nine - day stay, Cobb came to see hospice as a
place where the ordinary dovetails
with the sacred every day... our time in hospice was infused with miracles, ordinary miracles, which I have come to believe are part of the spiritual energy that surrounds every de
with the
sacred every day... our time in hospice was infused
with miracles, ordinary miracles, which I have come to believe are part of the spiritual energy that surrounds every de
with miracles, ordinary miracles, which I have come to believe are part of the spiritual energy that surrounds every death.
This monument displays important constructions,
with huge polyhedrons, forming the walls and trapezoidal portals of its
sacred places and Temple, where one can appreciate the stone façade composed of 6 perfectly fit red porphyre monoliths.
6:00 a.m.: Uphill hike to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible
places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial
places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory),
sacred temples and benched terraces,
with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.
Enigmatic and unique, these magical formations filled
with crystal waters were
sacred places for the Mayan civilization, and now welcome visitors for a sparkling dip.
At present, it is staged in several
sacred places of the city of Cusco, the main one being the Esplanade of Saqsaywaman, in an impressive artistic display,
with beautiful choreographies and costumes which give a special touch to the Sanctuary of Saqsaywaman which is visited every 24th of June, by a multitude of Cusco's inhabitants, as well as by a great number of foreign and national visitors who give a higher level to the Íncas» most important festivity.
Live Ancestral rites,
with the shamans and paqos (Andean Priests), visiting
sacred and enigmatic
places