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| | Ritual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The purposes of rituals are varied; they include compliance with religious obligations or ideals, satisfaction of spiritual or emotional needs of the practitioners, strengthening of social bonds, demonstration of respect or submission, stating one's affiliation, obtaining social acceptance or approval for some event — or, sometimes, just for the pleasure of the ritual itself. | | | A ritual may be performed at regular intervals, or on specific occasions, or at the discretion of individuals or communities. | | | Outside worship and reverence, rituals can have a more basic sociological function in expressing, fixing and reinforcing the shared values and beliefs of a society. |
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| | RITUAL - LoveToKnow Article on RITUAL |
| | As regards the symbolic interpretation of ritual, this is usually held not to be primitive; and it is doubtless true that an unreflective age is hardly aware of the difference between outward sign and inward meaning, and thinks as it were by means of its eyes. | | | This analogyfor it is safer to regard such applications of individual psychology to social phenomena as only analogies may be carried a step further. | | | Secondly, there is the tendency to identify such a self-accomplishing act of worship with its objective expression in the ritual that for purposes of mutual understanding makes the body of worshippers one. |
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http://96.1911encyclopedia.org/R/RI/RITUAL.htm
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| | Ritual |
| | Ritual is performed with awareness, in the here and now, with the aspirant fully aware of the meaning and purpose of the ritual. | | | The formal ritual of the construction of the mala gave the participants the opportunity to be aware of both past and present actions and how they can begin by moving from avidya to vidya. | | | Very often the rituals are habits; at the beginning of any 'phone conversation we may ask, 'how are you?' as the ritual greeting with no real intention concerning the welfare of the other behind the statement. |
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http://www.schoolofurbanzen.com/Insight/Ritual.html
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| | Though rituals may dictate behaviors involving modern weapons and their uses, the fact that the weapons themselves do not form an overt part of cultural activity means that weapon "rituals" play little to no part in larger structures of belief in those societies (public religious and cultural values, for example). | | | This section extends the research framework for ritual weapons developed on this website to such cases, attempting, in the same way, to find patterns that reveal cross-cultural relationships about the construction and social management of violence. | | | Part of the problem has been my constant re-defining of what "ritual weapons" are: I've always had a clear idea in my mind, but problems kept arising when trying to put it into practice here. |
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http://weaponspage.homestead.com
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ritual |
| | VIII are the old ones of the Ritual. | | | The contents of our Ritual and Pontifical were in the Sacramentaries. | | | In the Byzantine Rite the contents of our ritual are contained in the Euchologion. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13088b.htm
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| | Creative Ritual Guidebook |
| | The most satisfying rituals by far are the ones which never stray too far from their established goal and ritual format. | | | One thing which seems to work well is to have the entire ritual focus upon one big thing which represents the Ritual Goal (magick-raising, ritual drama, a sermon, a nature walk, and so forth) and to build everything toward this, doing this thing last. | | | As you form your rituals remember one very important thing: rituals exist for us, that it is we who are most touched by ritual, regardless of how the deities appreciate our sacrifices and good behavior. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~chandonn/Haven/creatrit.htm
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| | Ritual Master Program |
| | The practical work is done with the Ritual Master and is the core of the program. | | | The most important thing to remember is that this means much responsibility and the highest of such is to always control your mind and what you think, say and do in life. | | | The process of becoming a Ritual Master is a long and difficult road. |
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http://www.7thmysteryschool.com/ritualmaster1.asp
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| | Ritual protection marks |
| | Ritual deposits are manipulative, they seek to have an effect on evil forces whereas protection marks are there to make you feel something and will therefore be more effective if visible. | | | The central question is whether the marks recorded in the survey were intended to be protective and if so, whether the manner of their ritual application was supplicatory, or manipulative in the sense of controlling supernatural forces. | | | One house, with clear evidence of a ritual protective deposit would seem to point to a history of superstition, but which did not take the form of inscribed signs. |
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http://www.homewld.demon.co.uk/content.htm
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| | Group Ritual Dynamics |
| | Social rituals are important to the socialization process, as well as, the development, integration and stabilization of ego. | | | Reflecting on these dual ritual intents — asocial and social — helps determine which rituals might be possible for any given group, despite what that group wants, fantasizes about, or expects to happen. | | | Asocial (not to be confused with antisocial) rituals refer to any group dynamics that bypass socialization processes in lieu of realizing asocial goals such as No-Form and Source Relations; monasteries and nunneries offer classic examples of asocial rituals and lifestyles. |
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http://www.paratheatrical.com/pages/ritual.html
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| | BBC - Radio 4 - Ritual |
| | This is the claim of some neuroscientists who claim that the desire to perform ritual is a primitive instinct that can be found throughout the natural world. | | | Dr Gillian Rice looks at human and animal rituals and tries to un-pick the evidence that says we are just obeying a desire to reduce stress and communicate effectively. | | | But what happens when ritualised behaviour goes wrong? |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/ritual.shtml
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| | Ritual Toronto |
| | RITUAL attempts to bridge this gap by cultivating aesthetically-driven transformative human experiences that are fundamentally celebratory, inclusive and affirmative. | | | We attempt to construct spatial environments around traditionally 'religious' or devotional concepts of collective action such as participation, dedication, redemption, transformation, and acceptance of the individual through the collective. | | | Western mores traditionally isolate spiritual beliefs and human enjoyment as ideologically incompatible paths, which denies a complete understanding of art, humanity and personal expression. |
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http://www.techno.ca/ritual/index2-js.html
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| | Ritual |
| | It is certainly true that rituals which have been done many times by skilled practitioners may have residual power from those other performances, and you may be able to harness some of that power when you perform them. | | | I like to do a cleansing ritual in the fall where I pour the habits and emotional patterns I'd like to be free of into leaves and then burn them. | | | I'd like to add that while any formal and ornate rituals you do will be high points of your practice, they are most definitely not the whole of what being a witch is all about. |
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http://www.thedance.com/wicca101/ritual.htm
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| | Masonic Monitors & other Documents are published by the Grand Lodges to educate Masons. |
| | Masonic Monitors contain portions of Masonic ritual and often explanations of the meaning of that ritual. | | | The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has stated that there are slight changes in the wording of ritual, but no difference in character. | | | A few utilize cipher for a very few portions of the ritual for the same purpose. |
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http://www.ephesians5-11.org/document.htm
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| | Northfield Buddhist Meditation Center » RITUAL |
| | As stated previously, the reason for performing a ritual may ultimately be beyond explanation by the logical mind. | | | Because the various types of ritual have much in common, the longest explanation, provided under “Prostrations,” applies in many ways to the other types of ritual as well. | | | In the Vipassana tradition, which comes out of the Therevadan school of southern Asia, ritual tends to be emphasized less. |
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http://www.northfieldbuddhists.org/weblog/?p=117
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| | Preservation Ritual |
| | In our preservation ritual we do not want to encapsulate the present moment, we want to move with the present moment and feel its momentum. | | | I am thinking remnant ritual here in view of our current enthusiasms for change, transience and instant obsolescence and our obsession with the next news. | | | What is needed is a preservation ritual that celebrates our interest in continuity and the long view. |
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http://www.futureofthebook.com/storiestoc/ritual
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| | Fakir.org: Spirit + Flesh |
| | The energy pull ritual is not about pain or stoicism but rather a way, by gradually increasing tension on piercings, to shift your energy towards an altered state. | | | Post ritual marking is minimal, if at all, but it can happen depending on your skin. | | | All this will be done to strict and exacting medical standards with sterile packaged needles, hooks, cheek spears and supplies. |
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http://www.fakir.org/spiritflesh/participation.html
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| | Seppuku - Ritual Suicide |
| | Seppuku, (Sape-puu-kuu) the Japanese formal language term for ritual suicide (Hara-kiri (Har-rah-kee-ree) is the common language term.), was an intregal aspect of feudal Japan (1192-1868). | | | The ritual for disenbowlment was to be performed calmly and without flinching. | | | The great Ieyasu Tokugawa, who founded Japan's last great Shogunate dynasty in 1603, eventually issued an edict forbidding hara-kiri to both secondary and primary retainers. |
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/duchamp/410/seppuku.html
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| | Journal of Ritual Studies |
| | The Journal is run by the Co-Editors (P. Stewart and A. Strathern) and printed in the U.S.A. The term "ritual" has long enjoyed wide use in a number of disciplines, and many scholars have noted the fundamental social importance of ritualized behaviors and the difficulty of interpreting them. | | | Ritual Aspects of Narrative: An Analysys of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, Alan L. Miller (pp. | | | Ritual Criticism and Reflexivity in Fieldwork, Ronald L. Grimes (pp. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/journal.htm
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| | Rituals |
| | It is not that ritual per se ‘produces’ social integration and spiritual harmony – rather that ritual helps us celebrate and cement our common humanity and acts as a catalyst for change. | | | But, equally as destructive for the human spirit, is the absence of ritual, for then ‘anomie’ (lawlessness), psychological alienation and social sterility reign. | | | N.B. For more suggestions about ritual as applied to Creation Spirituality, see the various papers attached to this section of the Study Pack. |
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http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/resources/Rituals.htm
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| | Gamecloud - - SiN Episodes Interview |
| | Members of Ritual talk about their upcoming revival of their classic 1998 first person shooter. | | | We have to figure out how express key events that are important to the overall story, generate potential hooks for future exploration, look for call backs to previous story elements, and, most importantly, have a satisfying story by itself. | | | Gamecloud - A while back there were some images from a demo for SiN 2 that was created by Ritual. |
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http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=624
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| | The ritual – This is the main ritual itself. | | | Grounding and centering – this is a mini ritual that helps us to connect to the earth, and helps to keep our spirit aligned with our physical being. | | | Cleansing – cleansing one’s self, and the area in which the ritual takes place, of negativity. |
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http://members.aol.com/nexyjo/spirit/ritual.htm
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| | Ritual Abuse Free Home |
| | We want to equip you with practical materials that have been developed through our desire to minister to the abused or other problems that keep a person from living a victorious Christian life. | | | There is also much emotional intimidation involved in the threats made by the perpetrators. | | | When the perpetrators do not realize or acknowledge the demonic/satanic entities that feed off their behavior, I refer to it as Ritual Abuse. |
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http://ritualabusefree.org
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| | of the nature of or practiced as a rite or ritual: |
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| | Ritual Baths - Wicca |
| | This spritz will help to refresh you and revitalize the feelings of the ritual bath, making it easier for you to get into a magical frame of mind. | | | Many Wiccan traditions recommend ritual bathing before any Sabbat, Esbat or major spell working. | | | Ritual bathing allows you to literally wash away the mundane world as you prepare yourself for the spiritual. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art4514.asp
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| | RITUALISTIC Ritual Entertainment's Online Community Hub |
| | Ritual's QA Manager Michael Russell has dropped by our forums to reveal the changes contained in the upcoming patch for the Steam version of the original SiN. | | | With the Steam version of SiN now in the hands of several thousand people, we thought it would be time for another one of our trademark Sindays, allowing you guys to take on a few of the Ritual Tribesmen in SinCTF. | | | Also, an all-new Jessica Cannon steam skin, compatible with Steam 3.0, can be downloaded from the downloads section to allow you to brighten up your clients with some SiNful goodness. |
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http://www.ritualistic.com
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| | ritual - definition of ritual by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | rite of passage - a ritual performed in some cultures at times when a individual changes his status (as from adolescence to adulthood) | | | A detailed method of procedure faithfully or regularly followed: My household chores have become a morning ritual. | | | A state or condition characterized by the presence of established procedure or routine: "Prison was a ritual |
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| | Ritual purification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Ayyavazhi a ritual purification of one's mind and body called Thuvayal Thavasu,was formulated by Ayya Vaikundar and were practiced by Santror. | | | Most of these rituals were created long before the germ theory of disease. | | | Hinduism holds that bathing in the Ganges is a particularly effective form of spiritual cleansing. |
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| | Circumcision.net provides insights to Ritual Circumcision, known in Hebrew as BRIS |
| | who performs the ritual circumcision is a person who has received specialized training in the medical and ritual aspects of the bris. | | | The moment of the bris has a great spiritual effect upon the child and therefore Jewish law specifies that one should choose a Mohel who is noted not only for his technical skills but also for his level of piety. | | | It has therefore been the tradition that a Rabbi, cantor, or spiritual leader will also serve the community as a Mohel. |
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| | Ritual |
| | Food, ritual, and society : a study of social structure and food symbolism among the Newars. | | | At his last supper with his disciples, Jesus broke bread and poured wine, which he blessed and shared among them, saying that they were his body and bolld. | | | By imitating his actions at the communion service, Christians partake ritually of the body and blood of Christ. |
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| | www.myspace.com/ritualrocks |
| | If your comment promotes anything besides Ritual, it will be deleted. | | | Ritual has been influenced by many genres of music such as funk, metal, rap, hip-hop, and rock, all of which are apparent in their music. | | | With such genres and various influences, they have created their own brand and labeled it funk-metal hardcore. |
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| | The Libri of Aleister Crowley |
| | A ritual of self Initiation based on the Neophyte ritual. | | | Instructions given for the elementary study of the Qabalah, Assumption of God forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of attaining astral visions so called, and an instruction in the practice called rising on the Planes. | | | Analyzes the nature of the creative magical force in man, explains how to awaken it, how to use it and indicates the general as well as the particular objects to be gained thereby. |
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| | SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (SRA): |
| | Abuse by non-Satanists who engage in behaviors like SRA but are motivated by Christian or other beliefs. | | | Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) can be defined as the psychological, sexual, and/or physical assault forced on an unwilling human victim, and committed by one or more Satanists according to a prescribed ritual, the primary aim of which is to fulfill the need to worship the Christian devil, Satan. | | | During the 1980s and 1990s, estimates of the number of SRA murders in the U.S. and Canada have ranged from 0 (among skeptics) to 60,000 (among some believers in the widespread nature of SRA). |
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| | Saturnalia - A Winter Solstice Ritual |
| | For this ritual, the image needs to be standing and have legs that can be bound. | | | This ritual is dedicated to the Gods and may be used for any nonprofit purpose, provided that its source is acknowledged. | | | The ritual is conducted Graeco Ritu (by Greek Rite), that is, with uncovered head. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Saturnalia.html
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| | The Ritual Archive |
| | Bits of rituals, entire rituals and some theory about ritual. | | | Poetry about deities or nature, seasonal poetry, poetry for ritual use and some other poetry. | | | I am aware of the problems and I'm working to fix them. |
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| | Oblivio > Archives > Ritual |
| | This is a problem with made-up rituals: you can’t know in advance how something will feel. | | | At this point, though, I lean toward the ax—not because of the violence (the violence frightens me) but because of the way an ax would engage me, my physical self, in the act of destroying her. | | | It comes to down to how I plan to destroy her, the degree of violence involved. |
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http://oblivio.com/archives/06011416.html
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| | Ritual |
| | Virtual Ritual - A ritual that we can all share | | | Folk Rituals - Rituals contributed by members of TdB, including group rituals and solitary rituals. | | | Ritual Poetry - These are fragments of rituals, or small solitary rituals in their own right, as well as prayers and invocations and such. |
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| | Space Ritual - calling earth ... calling earth ...The only official Space Ritual site |
| | Every step possible has been taken to authenticicate and appropriately accredit, such as the varying photo's whose (c) belongs to Mark Flowers and/or Keith Curtis, but to no avail - please contact Space Ritual if you wish to be appropriately accredited. | | | space rituals and observe the space-time continuum as the "Agents of Time" approach. | | | Performing the ritual of uniting the tribes - all beings at different levels of sprititual developement communicate the grove, joining in the true spirit, aspiring to the flame. |
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| | Technorati Tag: ritual |
| | With customer service as our our first priority, you will always enjoy your shopping experience. | | | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | Wiccan Book Store - Ritual Tools A truly Wiccan store, owned and operated by a Wiccan with more than 15 years experience. |
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| | Ritual Abuse |
| | But as I am working on my own healing, I am coming to realize that while breaking programming is important (and often life-saving), that eventually it becomes important to deal with core issues. | | | Introduction by svali: Often, in today’s climate in which court systems and Child Protective Services all too often turn a blind eye to the problem of ritual abuse, it can be easy to fall into discouragement, or wonder if things will ever change. | | | Many Children's Services Bureau (CSB) (formerly Child Protective Services) social workers and investigators know that ritual abuse occurs and are appropriately concerned in response to reports of suspected ritual abuse. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/ritual_abuse
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| | Ritual |
| | You had no choice but to honor Yumana's ritual. | | | I could have said no to the ritual, but I agreed because I love you and I didn't want to dishonor you and your family by refusing. | | | My physiology is so different that neither of us would have known unless we had known the symptoms. |
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http://www.starpoint.net/~dennis/ritual.html
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| | Flickr: Photos tagged with ritual |
| | Explore and refine ritual photos with our clustery goodness! | | | You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo. | | | Feeds for photos tagged with ritual Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom |
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| | Ritual Interview |
| | Is there any kind of big/major buy out in Ritual’s future? | | | I think that the acquisition of Bungie by Microsoft is-maybe some developers are jealous, I don’t know- but, to me, it just goes to show that they were a jewel. | | | I’m the CEO of Ritual Entertainment, and I’ve been with the Heavy Metal project since its beginning. |
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http://www.corpnews.com/features/200008/08
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| | Information on Ritual Abuse |
| | The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. | | | Ritual abuse suggestions are planted in alternate personalities. | | | In ritual abuse, fear is used much more often, especially with children. |
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http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Info-on-ritual-abuse.htm
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| | United Communities of Spirit |
| | Many rituals are concerned with purity and purification. | | | This text gives a functional meaning to rituals such as the dietary laws. | | | Ritual bath- ing, baptism, hand-washing, and other forms of cleansing are symbolic of purification of the soul. |
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| | IMDb Title Search |
| | Your original search was changed to "Ritual" because this is more likely to give better matches. | | | A search for "Ritual" found the following results: | | | Superjoint Ritual: Live at CBGB: Changing the Face of Music Through Uncompromising Anti-Image (2004) (V) Superjoint Ritual: Live in Dallas, Texas (2002) (V) Prejudice (1922) |
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| | index_S_M_A_R_T_'s Ritual Abuse Page |
| | The purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to help stop ritual abuse and to help those who have been ritually abused. | | | We work toward this goal by disseminating information on the possible connections between secretive organizations, ritual abuse, and mind control, by encouraging healing from the extensive damage done by ritual abuse and mind control, and by encouraging survivors to network. | | | If you have information about ritual abuse and mind control, especially information pertaining to secretive organizations, we would be grateful if you could send it to smartnews@aol.com for inclusion in the newsletter. |
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| | Ritual |
| | The ritual for Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the tradition and background that has been handed down to the Fraternity's initiates since 1856. | | | Below is a bit of information on different parts of the Fraternity's ritual. | | | This includes its history, written Ritual, insignia and ceremonies. |
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| | Ancient Origins: Solstice |
| | As a symbolic celebration of growing light and as a commemoration of spiritual rebirth, it also seems closely related to other observances. | | | But the form of this celebration, a Festival of Lights (with candles at the heart of the ritual), makes Hanukkah wonderfully compatible with other celebrations at this time of year. | | | Here's another, more obscure tradition that most certainly predates Christmas, and was probably once a solstice ritual, because it is so linked to the themes of nature's rebirth and fertility. |
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http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html
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