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Discernment: Encyclopedia - Discernment
Discernment is a term used in the Catholic Church, and other Christian traditions to describe the process of ascertaining God's will for ...
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Discernment:
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discernment A Gift of the Spirit, achieved after much interaction between conscious mind and higher consciousness. The goal of the di...
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Tarot: The Ace Of Swords - Seizing The Power Of Discernment
Historically,
the sword was viewed as a sacred ritual object signifying bravery and power.
The flaming sword of Boddhisatva procured know...
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Examination: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Examination Signifies The Mental Action Of Discerning The Truth
Examination : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Examination signifies the mental action of discerning the truth
Examination ...
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Yoga Branches: Jnana Yoga
Jnana Yoga - The Yoga of wisdom or knowledge
Jnana means wisdom or discernment. Commonly
known as Yoga of the knowledge, Jnana focuses o...
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Tree Of Life: To Cut Or
Not To Cut The Tree Of Life
To Cut Or Not to Cut The Tree Of
Life
Cut this tree of life, advises Krishna in the fifteenth
chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. He likens li...
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Energetic
Patterns: The Energetic Patterns Of Diseases
The
Energetic Patterns Of Dis-Ease
Disease,
when looked at clairvoyantly, takes on very specific shapes and sizes in the
muscles, gland...
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Buddhist
Quotes: Guard What's Won
Buddhist Quotes: Guard What's Won
Knowing this body is like a clay jar, securing this mind like a fort, &nb...
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Cosmic Consciousness: Break Your
Mental Barriers
Break Your Mental Barriers
Most of us find ourselves trapped in our mortal ken
because of our ingrained habit of linear and sequential t...
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Global Oneness: New Global Order And Oneness Principle
Thirty years ago the historian Arnold Toynbee and Daisaku Ikeda, head of the Japanese Buddhist Soka Gokkai International, discussed at le...
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Indigo Children: Excerpt From "the Indigo Children"
As you begin to read this, you might be thinking, "What now, another 'doom and gloom' book about how society is changing our kids...
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Sacred Sexuality:
The Principles And Practices Of Tantric Yoga
Sacred Sexuality:
The Principles and Practices of Tantric Yoga
We are in a season of
accelerated personal and global awakening, a season...
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Insight: Encyclopedia - Insight
Insight is:
the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively;
Power of acute observation and deduct...
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Alectryomancy: Encyclopedia - Alectryomancy
Alectryomancy (also called alectromancy or alectomancy) is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds (or m...
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Uv Astronomy: Encyclopedia - Uv Astronomy
UV astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics which deals with objects visible in ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
UV radiation ran...
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Critic: Encyclopedia - Critic
A critic (from Greek κριτικός, kritikós - one who discerns, from Ancient Greek κριτής, krités, a judge) is a person who o...
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Charism: Encyclopedia - Charism
Charism - Religious meaning.
A charism is a power, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the grace of ...
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Avicenna Crater: Encyclopedia - Avicenna Crater
Avicenna is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb on the northern rim of the Lorentz basin. ...
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Cirrostratus Cloud: Encyclopedia - Cirrostratus Cloud
Cirrostratus clouds belong to a class characterized by a composition of ice crystals and often by the production of halo phenomena. They ...
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Clearness Committee: Encyclopedia - Clearness Committee
Within the Religious Society of Friends, the clearness committee represents a process for discernment. Clearness Committees are often use...
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Apollonius Of Tyana: Encyclopedia - Apollonius Of Tyana
Apollonius of Tyana (13 March 2 – 98?) was a Neo-Pythagorean philosopher and teacher of Greek origin. His teaching influenced scientifi...
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Frankincense: Encyclopedia - Frankincense
Frankincense or olibanum is an aromatic resin obtained from the tree Boswellia thurifera or B. sacra. It is used in incense as well as in...
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Wheat Mildew: Encyclopedia - Wheat Mildew
Much of the following text is taken from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881:
Wheat mildew may be ranked as a wheat disease which affects th...
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Absolute Truth: Encyclopedia - Absolute Truth
"What is absolutely true is always correct, everywhere, all the time, under any condition. An entity's ability to discern these things is...
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Pattern: Encyclopedia - Pattern
For the martial arts related meaning of Pattern see Taekwondo and Kata (Karate).
A pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abst...
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Poltergeist: Encyclopedia - Poltergeist
A poltergeist (German for rumbling ghost) is widely believed to be an invisible ghost that interacts with others by moving and influencin...
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Compression Artifact: Encyclopedia - Compression Artifact
A compression artifact (or artefact) is the result of an aggressive data compression scheme applied to an image, audio, or video that dis...
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Animation: Encyclopedia - Animation
This is a Root page - a common introduction to several more specialised pages.
This animation moves at 10 frames per second.
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vitarka:
Sanskrit
Dictionary On vitarka
Vitarka:
discernment
(See
also: Vitarka ,
Body
Mind and Soul)
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Substance Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Substance Theory - Primitive Concepts Of Substance Theory
Two primitive concepts (i.e. genuine notions that cannot be explained in terms of something else) in substance theory are the bare partic...
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Vipasyana:
Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Vipasyana
Vipasyana Discernment; also, insight, correct perception or view.
(See also: Vipasyana , Buddhism, Body Mind and
Soul...
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Substance Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Substance Theory - Bundle Theory
In direct opposition to substance theory is bundle theory, whose most basic premise is that all concrete particulars are merely construct...
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Vitarka: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary V On
Vitarka
vitarka:
vitarka - discernment
(See also: vitarka , Hinduism, Hinduism
Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Sou...
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Panna:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Panna
panna (pa~n~naa): Discernment; insight; wisdom; intelligence; common sense; ingenuity.
(See also: Panna , Buddhism, B...
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Leys:
New Age
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leys Currents of energy flowing within the Earth, invisible to scientific instruments but discernable through attunement
(Se...
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Clairvoyance:
Health And
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Clairvoyance: The paranormal ability to see psychic information, including historical or future events or other phenomena, that cannot...
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Vijja:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Vijja
vijja (vijjaa): Clear knowledge; genuine awareness; science (specifically, the cognitive powers developed through the practice of conc...
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Charism: Encyclopedia Ii - Charism - Religious Meaning
A charism is a power, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the grace of God.
From the greek, charis - g...
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Nonsense: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonsense - Distinguishing Sense From Nonsense
While Emily Dickinson wrote that:
Much madness is divinest Sense
To the discerning Eye. . .
The problem lies in the discernment. Dis...
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Shadow Ghost:
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Shadow Ghost:
A black, mist like spirit that has no discernable features. It is usually demonic in nature and is sometimes described ...
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Vijnanamaya-kosa:
Spiritual - Theosophy
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Vijnanamaya-kosa (Sanskrit) [from vijnana intelligence, understanding, discernment + maya built of, formed of, illusory manifestation ...
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Clairvoyance:
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Clairvoyance The paranormal ability to “see” psychic information, including historical or future events or other phenomena...
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Indriya:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Indriya
indriya (indriya): Faculties; mental factors. In the suttas the term can refer either to the six sense media (ayatana) or to the five ...
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Sallekha-dhamma:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Sallekha-dhamma
sallekha-dhamma (sallekha-dhamma): Topics of effacement (effacing defilement) - having few wants, being content with what one has, sec...
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Four Ways:
Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Four Ways
Four Ways (of learning Buddhist Dharma) (1) Belief/faith; (2) Interpretation/discernment; (3) Practice/performanc...
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Flow Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Flow Psychology - Components Of Flow
As Csikszentmihalyi sees it, there are components of an experience of flow that can be specifically enumerated; he presents eight:
Clear...
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Technology Integration: Encyclopedia Ii - Technology Integration - The Need For Web Site Evaluations
The amount of information being placed on the web is doubling every twelve months. Due to the rapid increase of information, it is essent...
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Heart:
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HEART The heart was the center of instinct and the precious kernel of immortality and it was this which was weighed in the balance aga...
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Autism:
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AUTISM A mental state in which one fails to discern even the slightest meaning or purpose in other people, or indeed in anything outsi...
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Jnana-yoga:
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Jnana-Yoga:
Jnana-Yoga ("Yoga of wisdom"): the path to liberation based on wisdom, or the direct intuition of the t...
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Prajna:
Spiritual - Theosophy
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Prajna
Prajna (Sanskrit) [from pra before + the verbal root jna to know] To know through clear perception, to discern clearly; wisdom,...
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Moha:
Spiritual - Theosophy
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Moha
Moha (Sanskrit) Bewilderment, perplexity, folly, delusion, error. In philosophy, delusion of mind, preventing the discernment of truth...
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Vimutti:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Vimutti
vimutti (vimutti): Release; freedom from the fabrications and conventions of the mind. The suttas distinguish between two kinds of rel...
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Parami, Paramita:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Parami, Paramita
parami, paramita (paaramii, paaramitaa): Perfection of the character. A group of ten qualities developed over many lifetimes by a bodh...
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Virgo:
New Age
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Virgo "Virgin", sixth sign of the zodiac (approx. August 20 to September 20); of the earthy element, ruler Mercury; keyword...
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List Of Backward Messages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Backward Messages - Alleged Messages
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring clean for the May queen. Yes there are two paths you can ...
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Međugorje: Encyclopedia Ii - Međugorje - Criticism
The local bishops, especially Bishop Ratko Peric, have strongly condemned Međjugorje as a false apparition (read Bishop Peric's latest s...
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Dhalgren: Encyclopedia Ii - Dhalgren - Critical Reaction
Critical reaction to Dhalgren has ranged from high praise (both inside and outside the science fiction community) to extreme dislike (mos...
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Bigfin Squid: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfin Squid - Specimens
The first record of this family comes back from a specimen (Magnapinna talismani) caught off the Azores in 1907. However, due to the dama...
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Athletics World Record: Encyclopedia Ii - Athletics World Record - Men's Records
Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell (USA)
Note : Two record distances are given for the men's javelin event...
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Alaya-vijnana:
Spiritual
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Dictionary On Alaya-vijnana
Alaya-vijnana (Sanskrit) (from alaya abode, dwelling from a-li to settle upon, come close to + vijnana discernment, knowledge from vi-...
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Moksha: Encyclopedia Ii - Moksha - Means To Achieve Moksha
There are believed to be four yogas (unions) or margs (paths) for the attainment of Moksha. They are the ways of selfless work, of self-d...
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Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrocosm And Microcosm - Ancient Thought
Macrocosm/microcosm is a principle in Socratic/Platonic philosophy. The Republic, most of it of Socratic influence, is based on this fund...
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Than: Encyclopedia Ii - Than - Usage
Usage prescriptionists have ordained a number of rules concerning than that those who do not wish to be edited or corrected may wish to n...
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Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Plot - Plot In Literature Theater Movies
According to Aristotle's Poetics, a plot in literature is "the arrangement of incidents" that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the ot...
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Lincoln Memorial: Encyclopedia Ii - Lincoln Memorial - Images Of The Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is shown on the reverse of the United States penny. In his treatise Theory and Practise of Numismatic Design, Steve ...
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Classism: Encyclopedia Ii - Classism - Classism And Racism
Classism is also similar to racism in that it is often a matter of considerable controversy. Charges that a person, act, or institution i...
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Classism: Encyclopedia Ii - Classism - Classism And Racism
Classism is also similar to racism in that it is often a matter of considerable controversy. Charges that a person, act, or institution i...
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Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Plot - Plot In Literature Theater Movies
According to Aristotle's Poetics, a plot in literature is "the arrangement of incidents" that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the ot...
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Nikolay Kostomarov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Kostomarov - Historian
As a historian, Kostomarov's writings reflected the romantic trends of his time. He was an advocate of the use of ethnography and folkson...
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Clitoris: Encyclopedia Ii - Clitoris - Recognition Of Existence
Medical literature first recognised the existence of the clitoris in the 16th century. This is the subject of some dispute: Realdo Colomb...
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Chickenpox: Encyclopedia Ii - Chickenpox - Controversy
Although mortality due to primary varicella has declined significantly in the United States with increasing use of the varicella vaccine,...
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Baltic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Baltic Languages - Relationship With Other Indo-european Languages
The Baltic languages are of particular interest to linguists because they retain many archaic features, which are believed to have been p...
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Mopsus: Encyclopedia Ii - Mopsus - Mopsus Son Of Manto And Rhacius Or Apollo
Mopsus, a celebrated prophet, son of Manto and Rhacius or Apollo. He officiated at the altars of Apollo at Claros; and from his unerring ...
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Famous Monsters Of Filmland: Encyclopedia Ii - Famous Monsters Of Filmland - Magazine History 1958 - 1983
Famous Monsters of Filmland (which quickly became known to fans as simply FM) was originally conceived as a one-shot publication with no ...
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Sinfonia Concertante: Encyclopedia Ii - Sinfonia Concertante - Classical Era
Until the baroque era, preceding the classical music era, the differences between concerto and sinfonia (or: symphony), had not been all ...
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Orffyreus:
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Orffyreus
ORFFYREUS Latinized name created for himself by Johann Bessler (1680-1745) by writing the letters of the alphabet in a circle and sele...
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Alain-rené Lesage: Encyclopedia Ii - Alain-rené Lesage - Works For The Stage
Of Lesage's miscellaneous work, including his numerous farce-operettas, there is not much to be said except that they are the very best k...
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Redaction Criticism:
New Age
Spirituality Dictionary On Redaction Criticism
Redaction criticism A relatively new branch of biblical literary criticism that attempts to infer the theological purposes of the R...
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Demythologization:
New Age
Spirituality Dictionary On Demythologization
Demythologization A method of interpretation practiced by Christian theologian Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) to free the New Testament o...
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Sunward Cohousing: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunward Cohousing - Vision And Values
The following published statements describe the foundation around which the community operates.
Vision:
A residential community in which ...
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Scrying: Wiccan Witchery Dictionary Ii On Scrying
SCRYING - A form of divination intelling self hypnosis to achieve a trance state, in which joins the concious with the sub-concious to...
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Bhagavad Gita:
Spiritual Yoga
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Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita:
Bhagavad Gita ("Lord's Song"): the oldest full-fledged yoga book found embedded in the Mahabharata a...
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Samkhya:
Spiritual Yoga
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Samkhya
Samkhya:
Samkhya ("Number"): one of the main traditions of Hinduism, which is concerned with the classification of ...
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Sinocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Sinocentrism - Response Of Other Countries
Within Asia, the cultural and economic centrality of China was recognized and most countries submitted to the sinocentric model, if only ...
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History Of Christianity And Homosexuality: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Christianity And Homosexuality - Liberal Christian Views
Liberal Christians claim that Biblical passages have been mistranslated or they do not refer to homosexuality and early Christians accept...
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Intelligent Design Book: Encyclopedia Ii - Intelligent Design Book - Overview
Dembski begins by logically analyzing signs from God in the Bible, and notes that such signs have specificity and complexity, which enabl...
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Nicky Line: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicky Line - The Nicky Line Today
Since much redevelopment of the town took place subsequent to its closure, the course of the lower part of the line is nowadays hard to f...
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Spiritual Gifts:
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Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual Gifts The Christian doctrine that certain gifts are given by Jesus to his church. There are some that are obviously supernat...
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Ariyadhana:
Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Ariyadhana
ariyadhana (ariyadhana): Noble Wealth; qualities that serve as 'capital' in the quest for liberation: ·  ...
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Paramita:
Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Paramita
Paramita: Refers to the six practices, the perfection of which ferries one beyond the sea of suffering and mortality to Nirvana. &nb...
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Vipassana: Encyclopedia Ii - Vipassana - Etymology
Vipassanā is a Pali word from the Sanskrit prefix "vi-" and verbal root √drś. It is often translated as "insight" or "clear-seeing," ...
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Hector's Dolphin: Encyclopedia Ii - Hector's Dolphin - Physical Description
The Dolphin has no discernible beak and a rounded fin. The fluke has pointed tips and concave trailing edges. The overall color is a pale...
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Fossil: Encyclopedia Ii - Fossil - Replacement And Compression Fossils
In some cases the original remains of the organism have been completely dissolved or otherwise destroyed. When all that is left is an org...
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Glomerulonephritis: Encyclopedia Ii - Glomerulonephritis - Chronic Glomerulonephritis
Chronic glomerulonephritis represents the end-stage of all glomerulonephritis with unfavorable evolution.
Histopathology: few glomeruli m...
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Mushroom Hunting: Encyclopedia Ii - Mushroom Hunting - Little Brown Mushrooms
A "little brown mushroom" or LBM refers to any of a large number of small, dull-colored agaric species, with few readily distinguishable ...
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Dream Dictionary Alligator: Dream Interpretation
Dictionary - Alligator
Alligator Someone around you does not have your best interests at heart—and it might be someone whom you feel you can tru...
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Dream Dictionary Night: Dream Interpretation
Dictionary - Night
Night 1. A dream of a clear, starry night, with a full moon, is an omen of positive things to come. A dark, cloudy night with n...
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Two
Dreams Symbol: Christian Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Two
Two: Witnessing; separation; discernment; wholeness in marriage; division; enmity; opposition; dividing light and darkness; relationsh...
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Dream
Dictionary Addition:
Meaning Of Dreams About Addition
Addition To dream of pondering over addition, denotes that you will have a struggle to overcome difficult situations, which w...
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