Category: Spiritual and Mental Health
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Involuntary Hospitalization as a Spiritual Initiation
I am reading a great article on ritual. I have realized that I have actually gone through an initiation and ritual in the traditional sense of isolation and separation, being stripped of clothes, and all the other elements of ancient ritual by being involuntarily hospitalized. This is in keeping with shamans and others who go through ornate
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A wonderful mentor program
I live in Seattle and was attending a foster training class and they shared about this mentoring program that is based in Seattle, Washington. I think that this intentionality is extremely rare and very important. https://friendsseattle.org/how-it-works
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Alan Hirsch on Jesus is Lord and Disciple Making
Imitatio Christi–becoming more like Jesus–is a matter of making Jesus LORD of all aspects of your life. There used to be a corresponding God for each domain of life, but we should renounce all idolatry and any other claim of sovereignty over our lives. All of your life should be unified under God. The heart
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Staying on the Surface
I studied a lot when I was younger, and I study a lot today. As a teenager I maintained numerous journals and word journals. As a young adult I kept a Russian-English dictionary I made that was hundreds of pages long and then did one that was Russian-German. However, I am going to start fostering
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