religion

1.    Way or ways that people orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extraordinary powers, meanings and values.

2.     (Jung) Institution whose function is to protect us from an experience of God

(See also: Religion, Body Mind and Soul)

IMMORTALITY

The fourth and shallowest of ego desires. The difference between the initiate and the ordinary person is that the initiate knows that he, along with everything in the universe, is already immortal. Ordinary people see the truth in such ideas but choose to live as if the illusion of commonplace, middle-class job and family are more "practical" or "real" than metaphysical truth.

(See also: IMMORTALITY, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

conscious mind: Jagrat chitta ("wakeful consciousness").

The ordinary, waking, thinking state of mind in which the majority of people function most of the day.

See: awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.

(See also: Conscious mind, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Land of Enlightened and Unenlightened Beings

(Jpn.: bonsho-dogo-do)

Also, Land of Sages and Common Mortals. Here ordinary people of the six paths live together with the sages of the four noble worlds.

See: Land of Sages and Common Mortals

(See also: Land of Enlightened and Unenlightened Beings, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

Novels Picnic on Paradise (1968) And Chaos Died (1970) The Female Man (1975) We Who Are About To... (1977) Kittatiny: A Tale of Magic (1978) The Two of Them (1978) On Strike Against God (1980) Short Fiction The Adventures of Alyx (1976) The Zanzibar Cat (1983) (Extra)ordinary People (1985) See also:

Joanna Russ, Joanna Russ - Published Writings, Joanna Russ - External link

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Main article: Charge Charges can be animals, objects or geometric constructs (ordinaries). Common animals are lions, leopards, martlets, eagles, gryphons, fish, boars or dolphins. There are dragons and unicorns as well, but they are not nearly as common as most people suppose. Possibly the rarest animal in heraldry is found in the coat of arms of Maidstone, Kent, which bears an iguanodon rampant on the dexter side. An animal shown langue (with its tongue stickin ...

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Heraldry, Heraldry - Shield and lozenge, Heraldry - Tinctures, Heraldry - Divisions of the field, Heraldry - Charges, Heraldry - Ordinaries, Heraldry - Besides the shield, Heraldry - Coat of Arms Motto, Heraldry - Supporters and other additions, Heraldry - Modern heraldry, Heraldry - Note

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RELIGION (from religare, to bind book, Latin) 1. way or ways that people orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extraordinary powers, meaning and values. (Catherine Albanese)

2. institution whose function is to protect us from an experience of God. (Jung) (NAD)

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HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK

Developed by Dr. Stanislov Grof, a psychiatrist working with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and by Christina Grof, a transpersonal teacher, this is a simple, yet powerful technique for self-exploration and healing based on combined insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, and perennial spiritual practices.

The method activates non-ordinary states of consciousness which mobilize the spontaneous healing potential of the psyche. Sustained effective breathing, evocative music, focused energy work, and mandala drawing are components of this subjective journey.

Holotropic literally means moving toward wholeness. Virtually all ancient and native traditions recognize the psychological and spiritual healing potential of states of consciousness that differ from what we call ordinary.

Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful method of self-exploration and healing. This work can be useful for artists wishing to facilitate their creativity, persons seeking a deep level of healing, those seeking to explore their inner self and/or the transpersonal dimensions, and it can lead to a spiritual opening and transformation.

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FAIRY

One of the reasons that "fairy" became a derogatory epithet for homosexual is that ordinary society pretends to pride itself on its own ordinariness and lack of originality and is afraid to confess any interest in the possibility of the extraordinary. Beyond that, the Celtic Irish believe(d) that the "little people" inhabit a beautiful land of "the ever young". These and similar notions led to the natural association of one with the other. Wm. Butler Yeats and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, however, claimed to have incontrovertible evidence in support of the existence of fairies. More recently, Jacques Vallée has advanced the idea that today's ufos are the descendents of yesterday's fairies.

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One of the distinctive features of Opus Dei is it's stress of lay spirituality - a spiritual life for lay people living an everyday life and doing ordinary work. Escriva takes decided position against the concept of having an interior spiritual life and a separate "not spiritual" professional, social, and family life. According to Opus Dei, Opus Dei's spirituality commits lay people to sanctify themselves in the same place where they were before they met Opus Dei a ...

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Some people count these as three gaits, combining the canter and the gallop, considering the gallop a variation of the canter. Others count them as four gaits, separating the canter and the gallop. In increasing order of speed, the ordinary gaits are: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. Only two gaits are natural to wild horses: the walk and the gallop. The trot and the canter have been developed in horses through domestication, breeding, and training ...

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Horse gait, Horse gait - The ordinary gaits, Horse gait - Walk, Horse gait - Trot, Horse gait - Canter, Horse gait - Gallop, Horse gait - Additional gaits, Horse gait - The pace, Horse gait - The slow gait, Horse gait - The rack, Horse gait - The foxtrot, Horse gait - The tölt, Horse gait - Further information on gaits, Horse gait - External link

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This game is a common demonstration in game theory classes, where even economics graduate students fail to guess 0. When performed among ordinary people it is usually found that the winner guess is much higher than 0, e.g., 21.6 was the winning value in a large internet-based competition organized by the Danish newspaper Politiken. This included 19,196 people and with a prize of 5000 Danish krones. [1] This result is taken as an example that people are not capable of the extended elimination of domina ...

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Guess 2/3 of the average, Guess 2/3 of the average - Equilibrium analysis, Guess 2/3 of the average - Experimental results, Guess 2/3 of the average - Rationality versus common knowledge of rationality, Guess 2/3 of the average - Notes

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His most famous works are the Clayhanger trilogy and The Old Wives' Tale. His novel "Buried Alive" was made into the 1912 movie "The Great Adventure" and several his books have been made into films and television mini-series over the years. Bennett believed in ordinary people. His style reminds one of Maupassant, one of the French writers on whom he modeled himself. Bennett made simple ...

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Arnold Bennett, Arnold Bennett - Life, Arnold Bennett - Work, Arnold Bennett - Criticism, Arnold Bennett - Works, Arnold Bennett - Quote

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Bullshit is commonly employed in situations where truth and accuracy are far less important than the ability to achieve a suitable response in the audience. In many cases, such a response is the gaining of popularity or favour (often needed in politics, religion or advertising). More mundane examples of bullshit often involve the lives of ordinary people. For example, it is not at all uncommon to hear of people "bullshitting" a job interview, or attributing their performance in an examination to their ability to bullshit. In this sense, bull ...

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Bullshit, Bullshit - Etymology, Bullshit - The uses of bullshit, Bullshit - Bullshit in philosophy

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With 14,700 temples and nearly 7 million adherents (in 1989) Soto is the largest Zen sect in Japan, surpassing Rinzai and Obaku. In Japanese history, Soto gained ground among provincial rulers and ordinary people, while Rinzai won the support of the central samurai government. Soto is practiced both in Japan and in the West, and stresses shikantaza, the meditation as a means of completely eliminating the mind and body as a concious entity; enlightenment realized at the arrival of ...

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Soto, Soto - Characteristics, Soto - History, Soto - Important texts

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With 14,700 temples and nearly 7 million adherents (in 1989) Soto is the largest Zen sect in Japan, surpassing Rinzai and Obaku. In Japanese history, Soto gained ground among provincial rulers and ordinary people, while Rinzai won the support of the central samurai government. Soto is practiced both in Japan and in the West, and stresses shikantaza, the meditation as a means of completely eliminating the mind and body as a conscious entity; enlightenment realized at the arrival of ...

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Soto, Soto - Characteristics, Soto - History, Soto - Important texts

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1975 Revisions to education laws in Texas allowed the state to withhold state funds for educating children of illegal aliens. The Court found that this policy was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, as undocumented immigrants and their children are people "in any ordinary sense of the term", and therefore have protection from discrimination. Since the law disadvantaged the children of the undocumented by denying them funds for an effective education, the Court struck down the law. This case was decided together with Texas v. Certain Named and Unnamed Ali ...

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Plyler v. Doe, Plyler v. Doe - Summary, Plyler v. Doe - Sources

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He was a monastic at Ling Yin Temple near Hangzhou. Even though his eccentric behavior broke the rules of the vinaya (traditonal code for monastics), Daoji had a kind heart and was always ready to lend a helping hand to ordinary people. Unlike a traditonal Buddhist monk, he ate meat and drank wine. The monks then had enough of his behavior and kicked him out of the monastery. From then on, Daoji roamed the streets and helped people whenever he could. While cultivating in the Buddha's teaching, Daoji acquired magical powers. Since many people noticed his compassionate nature, many started thinking of him as a incarnate of a bodhisattva, ...

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Daoji, Daoji - History, Daoji - Depiction

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He was a monastic at Ling Yin Temple near Hangzhou. Even though his eccentric behavior broke the rules of the vinaya (traditonal code for monastics), Daoji had a kind heart and was always ready to lend a helping hand to ordinary people. Unlike a traditonal Buddhist monk, he ate meat and drank wine. The monks then had enough of his behavior and kicked him out of the monastery. From then on, Daoji roamed the streets and helped people whenever he could. While cultivating in the Buddha's teaching, Daoji acquired magical powers. Since many people noticed his compassionate nature, many started thinking of him as an incarnate of a bodhisattva, ...

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Daoji, Daoji - History, Daoji - Depiction

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In a market economy, laws against price gouging are justified by many as a valid exercise of the police power to preserve order during an emergency, and may be combined with anti-hoarding measures. The usual argument is fourfold. The community as a whole may well possess sufficient stocks to sustain it through the emergency, provided that panic can be avoided. Sharp increases in price may trigger such panic. When people's resources are strained by a situation beyond ordinary prudence, the corrective tendencies of the ma ...

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Price gouging, Price gouging - Criticism of price gouging, Price gouging - In support of price gouging or of the liberty to engage in it

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Transportation in the mainland of the People's Republic of China has improved remarkably starting in the late 1990s as part of a government effort to link the entire nation through a series of expressways known as the National Trunk Highway System. Private car ownership is increasing but remains uncommon, in large part due to government policies designed to make car ownership expensive through the use of taxes and toll roads. Air travel has increased considerably, although remains out of reach for most ordinary mainland Chinese. Long ...

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