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...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...

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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ...he paper by Chung-Yuan Chang “Tao and the Sympathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was publi... ...he Psychological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, D... ...y And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction Dream And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 2... ...to ease my feeling of inner emptiness. I began to attend gatherings of the Riverside Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers. Riversi... ...of American Indian thought, has kindly contributed Chapter 5, “A Chorus of Powers: American Indian Belief.” Chapter 6, “The Sacred Land: Australian Ab... ...mps which include white-educated part-Aborigines from surrounding pastoral stations (ranches) and full-bloods from the desert to the south. Traditiona... ...ceremonies, are compromised to fit in with the employment of men on cattle stations (ranches) during the dry season. Increasing individuation through ...

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...Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those conc...

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