| NATURE WORSHIP: - Wicca and witchcraft or
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| | nature religions acknowledge an all-
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| other shamanic attunements akin to the
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| | encompassing Divine Unity. {This seems
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| kind of ethic and awe the great and
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| | more 'open' and less than the kind of
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| beautiful (FREE) North American Indians
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| | anthropomorphing that ego often
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| had before the arrival of the 'civilized'
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| | does.}Shaman: an adept who serves as
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| men from the Old World."A Guide to Nature
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| | healer and spirit world communicator for
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| Spirituality Terms
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| | her/his tribe or community. Sometimes
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| Selena FoxFounder and leader of Circle
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| | known as a 'Medicine person'. This role
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| Sanctuary, an internationally linked
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| | is tribal culture/community
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| Nature Spirituality resource center and
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| | defined.Shamanic Practitioner: someone
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| Shamanic Wiccan church based in Mt.
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| | learning and working with shamanistic
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| Horeb, Wisconsin. Animism: ancient
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| | healing practices for self-development,
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| philosophy that views everything in
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| | and in some cases, also for helping
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| Nature as having an indwelling spirit
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| | others. Sometimes known as a 'Medicine
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| soul, including the plants, rocks,
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| | worker'. This role is
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| waters, winds, t tires, animals, humans,
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| | self-defined.Shamanism: animistic
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| and other life forms.Animism is the
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| | spiritual healing practices usually
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| foundation of shamanism and has been
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| | involving trance (ecstatic) and spirit
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| considered the earliest form of human
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| | world journeys by adepts. Forms of
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| religion on planet Earth. {Sorry,
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| | shamanism include 'Traditional', which
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| philosophy students, who are often told
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| | are rooted in specific indigenous tribal
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| Aristotle and his work 'Anima' is
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| | people's cultures, and 'Multicultural',
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| original, these same students aren't told
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| | which are contemporary forms that
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| about his Secretum Secretorum which is an
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| | integrate old and new spirit wisdom from
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| alchemic treatise covering what he was
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| | more than one culture. {Does this seem to
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| taught that he sent to his pupil
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| | be an 'open' and positively ecumenical
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| Alexander the Great.}Earth-Centered
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| | spirituality? Why would there be any
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| Spirituality: honoring the spiritual
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| | problem if anyone and indeed everyone
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| interconnectedness of life on planet
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| | started to learn all wisdom?}Wiccan
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| Earth, often as Mother Earth or Gaia, but
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| | Spirituality: contemporary paths rooted
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| sometimes as a gender neutral Earth
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| | in one or more nature folk religions of
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| Spirit. Sometimes called 'Earth religion'
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| | old Europe. Also known as the Old
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| and 'Gaian' (Gaean) religion. Related
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| | Religion, the Craft, Wicca, Wicce, Ways
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| Eco-Christian form is Creation- Centered
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| | of the Wise, Neo-Pagan Witchcraft, and
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| Spirituality.Ecofeminism: feminist
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| | Benevolent Witchcraft.Witch: some Wiccan
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| environmental philosophy that draws
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| | practitioners use the word "Witch" for
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| parallels between the oppression of women
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| | themselves in connection with their
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| and the oppression of Nature by
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| | spirituality to bring back its
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| patriarchy and which advocates the
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| | pre-Inquisition use in Europe as a term
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| spiritual and political liberation of
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| | of honor and respect, meaning "medicine
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| both. Goddess Spirituality: revering
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| | person/medicine worker," "shaman/Shamanic
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| Nature and honoring the Great Goddess in
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| | practitioner," "wise woman/man,"
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| one or more of Her many forms. Usually
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| | "priestess/priest of the Old Religion."
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| polytheistic and sometimes multicultural
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| | Other Wiccans refuse to use the word
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| in practice. Usually incorporates
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| | "Witch" because of later negative
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| feminist perspectives. Heathen: Another
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| | definitions of the word which led to its
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| name for Pagan. Many contemporary
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| | use as a tool of Pagan genocide and
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| practitioners of Teutonic nature
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| | religious oppression in Europe and North
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| religions prefer this term for themselves
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| | America for hundreds of years. {Do you
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| and their spirituality.Nature Religions:
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| | know when it ended? Did it end when
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| religions that include an honoring of the
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| | Blasphemy Laws were overturned in England
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| Divine as immanent in Nature. May be
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| | in 1951? Some would like you to believe
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| premodern, modern, or postmodern in
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| | it ended when the last person was burned
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| philosophical orientation. Usually
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| | at the stake in Seville, Spain in the
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| polytheistic, animistic, and pantheistic.
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| | early 19th century. It still exists in
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| Include traditional ways of various
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| | career and government as well as social
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| native peoples of the Americas, Africa,
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| | situations. Therapeutae like Jesus and
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| Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Europe, and
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| | Pythagoras or other syncretic religions
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| elsewhere; religions of ancient Pagan
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| | are definitely the real models of
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| cultures, such as Greek, Egyptian, Roman,
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| | discipline that are "Witches"!} During
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| Minoan, Assyrian, Celtic, Teutonic, and
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| | the "Burning Times" of the Middle Ages,
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| others; and contemporary Paganism.Nature
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| | bigots in power changed its definition,
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| Spirituality: honoring the spiritual
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| | making it a term linked with evil, and
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| interconnectedness of life not only on
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| | used it as a brand to mark and
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| planet Earth but throughout the Universe
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| | exterminate folk healers, {The supposed
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| Cosmos; ,ore encompassing term than
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| | one god church actually believed illness
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| Earth-Centered Spirituality because it
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| | was created by "sins and demons". The
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| also includes Celestial religions; used
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| | guilt trips are more refined as time
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| by some as synonymous with contemporary
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| | allows more control and programming
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| Paganism and by others as also including
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| | through the destruction of open
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| interfaith blends, such as those that
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| | discussion and free-thinking.} those who
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| combine Paganism and Eco-Christianity or
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| | refused to convert to state-sanctioned
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| Eco-Buddhism. {Is nature worship doing
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| | forms of Christianity, political rivals,
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| the denominational rag and
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| | and others. Contemporary usage of the
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| differentiating itself with real intent
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| | word "Witch" by non-Wiccans is diverse
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| to discriminate of claim special
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| | but in recent years has been changing in
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| status?}Neo-Pagan: Contemporary
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| | academia and elsewhere {IT is the
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| Pagan.Pagan: pertains to a nature
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| | position of the American Psychiatric
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| religion or a practitioner of an ancient
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| | Association that trances, and
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| and/or contemporary nature religion; also
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| | possessions, are mental illness. They do
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| used to refer to a Nature Spirituality,
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| | not study or deal with the soul and most
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| Earth-Centered Spirituality, and/or
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| | avoid discussion of it, but when pressed
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| Goddess Spirituality group or
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| | are only acting out the old propaganda
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| practitioner.Pantheism: the Divine as
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| | and prejudice still. Anthropologists seek
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| immanent; the Divine is in everything and
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| | to make Trances an area of specialized
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| everything has a Divine
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| | study and these scientists (?) want to
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| aspect.Panentheism: Pantheism that also
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| | create a legal and druggable disorder
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| includes a transcendent component
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| | called 'Trance Possession Disorder
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| conceptualized as the Sacred Whole or
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| | Syndrome'. Real disorders including
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| Divine Unity. {Use and misuse of language
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| | hallucinations do exist, and are
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| allows epithets and degrading remarks to
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| | treatable by witches and shamans. Vitamin
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| minimalize or depreciate very similar
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| | B is often a missing ingredient in the
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| concepts. Is it not better to say
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| | nutritional intake and stresses or coping
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| religion is 'what you DO?' and not what
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| | skills must be learned. Compassion is
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| rationalistic construct that might move
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| | better than drugs and even massage or
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| your thought at some moment?}Polytheism:
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| | acupuncture work better in many studies
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| honoring Divinity in two or more forms.
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| | such as one done at the U of Toronto in
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| {Does that include the three as one or
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| | 2000. This author may be right when she
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| one in three 'Trinity' originally taken
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| | says there is a "growing awareness" but
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| from the Triune Nature of Man?} Can be
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| | that awareness may be managed to a degree
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| belief in/worship of multiple aspects of
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| | she does not know.} to reflect the
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| a particular deity; of the Divine as
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| | growing public awareness and
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| Goddess and God; or of many Goddesses,
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| | understanding of Wiccan Spirituality's
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| Gods, Nature Spirits, and/or other Divine
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| | reclaiming of the word.
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| forms. Some, but not all, polytheistic
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