Prayer:

A sincere attempt to communicate with a spiritual being or power.

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Prayer

• To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure, which will take strenuous efforts to avert.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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petitionary prayer: Type of prayer that involves a request (general or specific). The categories of petitionary prayer are personal prayer and intercessory prayer.

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Prayer Dream Symbols:

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prayer (metaphysical healing): Any attempt to express sentiments to a supernatural focus of worship or veneration. The general categories of prayer are thanksgiving and petitionary prayer.

Forms of Christian prayer include:

(a)   private prayer, which is solitary and/or meditative;

(b)  liturgical prayer, wherein a priest or leader prays ceremonially for countless persons and spirits;

(c)   vocal prayer, characterized by holy utterances;

(d)  mental prayer, the turning of one's mind and heart to God;

(e)   mystical prayer, whose goal is mystical union with God; and

(f)   prophetic prayer, which is often public and extemporary.

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Therapeutic Prayer: a powerful, nonreligious way to express caring and utilize the energy of prayer.

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prayer

The deliberate attempt to center ourselves in conversations with God or deity of choice; the concentration of heart and mind that brings that communion

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shamanic prayer: A form of prayer whose theory posits God (the Great Spirit) and Mother Earth. One of its principles is that rain is alive.

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personal prayer: Type of petitionary prayer wherein the petitioner is the object or would-be beneficiary of the request.

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receptive prayer: Exercise of spiritual faculties that draws from Infinite source currents.

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intercessory prayer:

1. Type of petitionary prayer wherein the petitioner is not the object or intended beneficiary of the request.
2. In Roman Catholicism, prayer in which one asks a saint or similar deceased person to intercede with God.

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Prayer As usually understood in the West, prayer implies the existence -- whether actually so in nature or not -- of a divine entity, such as God, Christ, an angel or saint, to whom petitions may be addressed and by whose favor benefits may be obtained, a view of prayer held in nearly all exoteric religious systems. Yet even among those who believe in personal divinities, some take a higher view of prayer than that of asking for special favors, rather looking upon it as an act of resignation to the divine will: "Not my will, but thine, be done."

Theosophy speaks of this as the endeavor of the aspiring human mind to establish individual communion between the personal man and his spiritual counterpart or inner god, the true meaning of the injunction to pray to our Father which is in secret. Thus prayer takes the form of aspiration combined with deep meditation, as has been the case with mystics, Eastern and Western. This involves a laying aside of personal wishes and a conscious desire for intuitive perception of the truth and for the power to follow it.

If a personal wish is present, precisely because all personal wishes in the last analysis are restricted, and hence either physically or spiritually selfish, the act becomes one of black magic, for the person is seeking to evoke interior powers in furtherance of his own purposes, which in such cases are usually founded in self-seeking of some kind. Also, a well-intentioned person, praying on behalf of another, may unwittingly exercise on that other an interference with the latter's will, similar in many respects to that of hypnotism.

The absurdity of warring nations praying to the same God for victory over each other is often commented on; and the practice of many people combining together to pray for the conversion of people of another sect, or even for worse objects, is equally open to reprobation. This kind of prayer is merely a survival of one of the lower magic arts, where religious practice consists mainly in the invocation of tribal and local deities.

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A Christian theological definition of Prayer according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Prayer

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formative prayer: The science of making or drawing things by using spiritual energy (Infinite source currents) directly.

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Lord's Prayer (see ref from Pater Noster)

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Lord's Prayer

• To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened with secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of friends to tide you over difficulties.
• To hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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written prayers:

See: lekhaprartha havana.

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prayer arrow

Ceremonial arrow in Native American communities, Shinto, and other traditions that conveys messages or energy between Heaven and Earth

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prayer position

Meditation with the thumbs on the sternum, finger tips touching lightly

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prayer wheel

A spiritual tool of the Buddhist tradition wherein a container with many prayers in it is spun while in a prayerful state of mind, activating the prayers within for a time and for the intention of the one praying

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