The story that is told in the sonnet is divided up into two different perspectives; the physical state, and the mental or spiritual state. ... This is the end of the first stanza, where the information of Randalls and his disease has broken him and this is the transistion from the first stanza to the second stanza, where his sickness is brought more into perspective. The second stanza introduces us into the spiritual perspective. Unlike the first stanza, this stanza deepens itself into his mental state at the time of his sickness. ... In this stanza, he at first does not accept this s...

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The Kung's religion and tradition are amongst the oldest of time and because their economic patterns are so representively of early living, their spiritual patterns are a way of seeing what their ancestors practiced too. ... After a short interval of singing and dancing, the ritual becomes intense and the num, which is the spiritual energy that the Kung experience bvefore they go into a state of kia. ... The other types of kia is not often used to pull sickness. ... When a healer proceeds to pull the sickness out, he struggles with the gods because it is sometimes them who have placed the...

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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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Perhaps the most commonly associated aspect of Native American healing is the spiritual factor. Native American healing goes hand in hand with with spirituality by incorporating spiritual practices (North Carolina 14). ... They believed that objects or substances such as herbs, had the power to utilize spiritual energy. ... They knew that simple sicknesses like a cold or cough or even a more serious injury like a broken bone, could be taken care of by using the gifts the Earth provided (Johnson 1). One object, known as a medicine wheel was used to harness spiritual energy and focus upon where ...

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These gondolier figures embody the concept of transportation of either spiritual or physical will that later becomes the underlining theme of Aschenbach's transformation. ... Aschenbach's desiring sickness for Tadzio correlates with the creeping plague that is invading Europe. ... The shift from Apollonion to Dionysian occurs as Aschenbach's desire intensifies to a sickness that engulfs him. ... He then shifts from this view to the Western perception linking homosexuality to sickness. ... Aschenbach's sickness, his desire to be with Tadzio will bring about his end. ...

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Spiritual reasons mainly influenced their move. ... By choosing to come to the New World, they had more than just spiritual freedom they had to contend with. ... Smith never mentions the sickness and diseases his people encountered. ...

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It should be the health professionals job to make sure that the clients needs are met, this includes spiritual needs. ... According to Raholm (as cited in Malinski 2002) "spirituality is a powerful part of life, it is the ultimate source of strength, and when sickness arises it is the strength that helps us get through it." ... They provide natural healing for those who have physical, psychological or spiritual problems. ... This type of healing promotes healing on all levels of sickness. It heals on a spiritual, mental and physical level just as the Shamans do. ...

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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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Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, Buddhism has played an influential role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of much of the Eastern world. ... Shocked as a young man after wittness by pure accident sickness, old age, and death, he renounced his family life in order to wander as a shramana, or ascetic, in search of religious understanding and a way of release from the human condition. ...

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Birth, aging, sickness, death is suffering. ... Spiritual ignorance causes suffering. ... There are two bodies spiritual and physical. To cleanse ones mind of impure thoughts allows the physical body to separate from the spiritual. ...

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Shamans are people who can go beyond their human weaknesses and have relationships with spiritual beings. ... Shamans can heal sicknesses, lead the souls of the dead, and provide direction for hunting or planting, and much more. ...

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Despair, as the sickness unto death. ... Hence, despair becomes the sickness unto death. ... As such, the sickness unto death becomes an expression of not dying. ... Despair becomes an eternal sickness that the self loses its capability of dying in the same sense that the body dies of sickness. ... Thus it is that despair, this eternal sickness in the self that is the sickness unto death. ...

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Moreover we find our spiritual and moral values eroded as the kind of development paradigm perpetrated by the West had been anchored on a very materialistic perspective of the universe devoid of any spiritual presupposition or moral import, such that the materialistic development paradigm blatantly disregards our religious and spiritual traditions which have shaped our histories, our worldviews and patterns of relationships. ...

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Salt, water, and fire purification rituals are found throughout Japan, emphasizing the need for purifying the acquired physical, spiritual, and mental pollutions of everyday dis-eases. ... This theme, however, is completely encompassing of most personal religious aspects such as births, sickness, weddings, blessings, and funerals. ... This is a key theme in understanding the world view of a nation's people, because the political context of their religion is just as important as the spiritual, sociological, and cultural. ...

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A Pow Wow was a spiritual healer that was also the called the "sacred practitioner", they were called in for sickness and death, and could be a man or women in the village. Their medicines were not drugs and leeches; they used holistic healing with medicines made out of local plants and spiritual remedies to cure what ailed them. ...

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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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And by following this Eightfold path, one is lead to the Four Nobel Truths: birth is painful, old age is painful, sickness is painful, and death is painful. ... The Vedas are groups of hymns and chants containing religious and spiritual insights of the ancient sages and seers. ... The aranyakas (as forest books) provide the symbolic and spiritual basis for the Brahmanas. ... The Vedas reflect the beginning of spiritual insight, while the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gta contain the full splendor of a spiritual vision. ...

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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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This "picture" we construe is "spiritual as well as physical" (216). ... As much as they both suffered though, no matter how great the pain or devastation was, they constantly lifted their hearts to God, and it was enough to carry them through spiritually "and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning" (220). ... Their wealth now lies above in the "spiritual" world. ... "I have seen the extreme vanity of this World: One hour I have been in health, and wealth, wanting nothing: But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death having nothing but sorrow and affliction" (229...

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Buddha taught peace and kindness and lived a spiritual life. ... Like Mary, Mahamaya is visited in a dream by "a spiritual being in the form of a sacred white elephant" (Oxtoby 378). ... He begins a new life seeking spiritual truth and masters seven levels of classical yoga. ... He went around teaching the word of God and "healing every sickness and disease among the people" (Matthew. 4:23). ...

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Without proper identification of such an ailment, it would remain a mystery of what this sickness was, and given how easily contagious it is, how fast it can spread. ... Stunningly, this would not alleviate or help stop blindness, and may even lead to gastrointestinal sicknesses if digested in raw form (Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt). Explicitly suggesting a vicious cycle in ancient civilizations of treating ailments that not only would not solve the targeted sickness, but actually increase the probability of contracting another disease. ... Diet, yet another source of sickness, was r...

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"Navajos express a strong spiritual connection to Mother Earth. ... "Since the 1980's, Navajo Nation judges have injected a healthy dose of Navajo culture, language, and spiritual traditions into the entire Navajo Nation Court System, including its decision making aspects" "(Austin, 2009). ... Sickness and Healing Ritualistic healing takes the form in three contexts: traditional ceremonies, Native American Church (NAC) peyote prayer meetings, or Pentecostal Christian revivalism. "Navajos express a strong spiritual connection to Mother Earth. ...

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