If one was chosen to become a shaman and does not become one, it can cause them a life of interminable sickness or torture. ... The purpose of this ceremony is to keep the family away form sickness due to evil spirits. ... Keeping sickness away (sau sub) is perform to two to three families together, once a year to keep sickness (due to evil spirits) away. ... Spiritual passport renewal (fab aj) is performing to an individual age forty and over. ... Chickens are use to call to the souls and sacrificed for spiritual needs. ...

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Information regarding the spiritual beliefs of the native people, is greatly outlined so as to be very useful to historians. ... Since this is written from a spiritual point of view, the superiority of the Jesuits and their faith over the natives is made clear. ... He also makes reference to poverty, famine and sickness and how tolerant the natives are of these things. ... He outlines their spiritual beliefs and then quickly explains how they are unrealistic. ... He views their daily lives to be quite difficult, as they deal with sickness, poverty and famine, yet he...

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Women were thought to have natural religion and had the important task of being "spiritual uplifters." ... Any workers that obtained a sickness were to stay in a designated room by themselves to avoid exposing others. ...

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Though the Marez background influences Tony, the Luna background made a much more profound impression on him, leading Tony into Ultima's world of spiritual exploration and healing. ... Facing many spiritual questions, and confused by the Catholic religion, Tony turned to Ultima for guidance. ... To properly heal, he must be vulnerable to the sickness, both to the spiritual and physical needs of the ailing person. ... He is simply becoming more observant and appreciative of nature and the gift of spiritual healing in which Ultima is teaching. ...

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My grandfather's sickness came as a shock to everybody in my family. ... Dying was the only solution to the sickness and pain that my grandfather was experiencing. ... Within moments of this spiritual dialogue I witnessed my grandfather take his last breath. ... Moments before his death, my grandfather was held hostage by his own sickness. ... Death is what brought my grandfather out of the pain of his sickness; death was his cure. ...

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Margaret Walker, an African American writer, once said, "Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact. " In saying this, she exhibits a sense of pride for her culture. ... This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died." ... With the number of slaves dying of sickness and ...

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The story of his life is that he was born into a wealthy family and his father when he was born went and saw a fortune teller who had told him that his son would either become a world known hero or become a spiritual icon. ... Until one day while in a parade outside palace walls he witnessed sickness, old age, and death. ...

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James BALDWIN & John Edgar Wideman I have always felt "We are here on earth to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." This is contrary to life as it relates to James Baldwin essay "Notes of a Native Son"and John Edgar Wideman collection of Homewood stories "Our Time." Life as ...

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Islam is a way of life. It is a simple and uncomplicated religion, giving one maximum freedom without encroachment on the freedom of others. It enjoins one to believe in only One God, to do good; to keep up prayers and pay the poor-tax; to fast during the month of Ramadan; to perform the Hajj and to...

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God however was aware and declared his son would be dead by sickness. ... Spiritual growth is only possible if people can understand that every action has a reaction. ... To grow spiritually it is necessary to consider the whole consequences and not be so selfish. ...

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The father a king spared no expense shielding the prince from contact with sickness, decrepitude and death. ... All human beings regardless of being rich, poor, smart of dumb will experience the following: Trauma of birth, pathology of sickness, morbidity of decrepitude, phobia of death, being tied to what one dislikes and sixth is being separated from what one loves. ... They can ascend upwards from real life to the spiritual peak of Nirvana. ...

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Siddhartha saw for the first time the poverty, sickness, and misery that others had to face, visions that had eluded him for so long. ... Life as we know it always has its share of disagreeable experiences -- sickness, physical pain, and distress are obvious examples. ... While no one can entirely avoid sickness and physical pain, the Buddha taught that our mental suffering has its roots in a person's deep-seated tendency to want things to be different than they are. ... The Buddha described the way to happiness as a path with eight component parts, which he called the Noble Eightfold ...

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With physical sufferings, birth and old age can cause pain within the body and sickness and death are both inevitable. ... As a religion, Buddhism does not have a set hierarchical structure in the material world, but there is one in the spiritual world. ... Within the spiritual world there is a hierarchical structure of three spiritual beings. ...

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In this paper, the topic of discussion will be, as mentioned above, the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 1 Timothy 4: 14-15 states " Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you. ... " We are meant to receive spiritual gifts. ... These words of knowledge could be as simple as solving a geometry problem at school all the way to getting a Word of Knowledge that someone needs healing from an illness, disease, injury, or any sickness. ...

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They had their own opinion on how the world was made, the workings of death, and many other historical and spiritual matters. ... In the story, he gives up his tail, his ears, and even jumps into a pit full of sickness to act as carrier thus infecting their enemies. ...

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Kony was spiritual believing that if children were rubbed in shea oil, they would be protected from weapons. ... These shelters can be cold crawl spaces filled with unsanitary water and rodents that can lead sickness. ...

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To him this meant that if you worked to exhaustion then you will be released, "in the form of endless labor does in itself bring a kind of spiritual freedom" (Jonathan Blumen). ... The early hospital blocks served as places "where people suffering from hunger disease could spend the time from the beginning of the sickness until their death (Lifton)." ...

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This is a military leader telling how he exercises military leadership who recognizes the authority that Christ has over sickness. ... This kind of service will produce spiritual results that will last for eternity and not just earthly works that will perish with this world. ...

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The spirits are believed to bring sickness, bad luck, accidents and general misfortune.  The Mangrove tree has a spirit the same as a headhunter's.  The tree is ferried home, like a headhunter's kill.  The Asmat believe the Sago palm to have the same spirit as a human, therefore the spirit of the Sago is the same as the spirit of a headhunter. ... Once attacked, the Sago is then butchered, as if it is a human.  The starch from the Sago tree supports the Asmat, which is why they consider the tree to be their "spiritual mother".  Carvings- e...

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The story of his life is that he was born into a wealthy family and his father when he was born went and saw a fortune teller who had told him that his son would either become a world known hero or become a spiritual icon. ... Until one day while in a parade outside palace walls he witnessed sickness, old age, and death. ...

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They had distinctive social and political systems, clothing styles, shelters, foods, languages, and spiritual and philosophical beliefs. ... It was believed to be present in all things "animals, plants, water, rocks, and other natural phenomena, such as the Sun, Moon, weather, or sickness. ...

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When a man can forget his daughters sickness to argue his salary or use the pulpit to preach for golden candle sticks there is an evident problem with greed for money in that person. ... Proctor and other people in the village saw Parris's greed and had a problem with such a man being their spiritual leader. ...

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Kony was spiritual believing that if children were rubbed in shea oil, they would be protected from weapons. ... These shelters can be cold crawl spaces filled with unsanitary water and rodents that can lead sickness. ...

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The Spiritual legacy The Native Americans have had great riches in human and spiritual resources. ... We are obsessed with material achievements and we fail to see the human and spiritual values in life. ... The American Indian heritage will claim its rightful place among the great spiritual traditions of humankind. ... In several cultures the retreat is initiatory in character for young men or occasionally for young women, who seek spiritual sanction for a new and sacred name; in the arctic or among some south-western peoples this retreat is participated in city by those who s...

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Hiking is a recreational way to get the recommended dosage of exercise in while having fun and reaping mental and spiritual benefits at the same time. ... Animals have been spiritual companions of humans since the beginning of recorded time. ... It helps us to see beyond our own species "to gain a spiritual advantage." ...

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