The term sacrament has become a convenient expression for a sign or symbol of a sacred thing, occasion, or event imparting spiritual benefits to participants; and such signs or symbols have been associated with eating, drinking, lustration (ceremonial purification), nuptial intercourse, or ritual techniques regarded as "means of grace" and pledges of a covenant relationship with the sacred order.
It is not strictly necessary to practice ritual techniques to be a Thelemite, as due to the focus of Thelemic magick on the True Will, Crowley stated "every intentional act is a magickal act".
Perhaps (as the scholar Heinrich von Staden suggests) they thought that the womb was polluted, and so employed the ritual technique of fighting pollution with pollution, in an early version of homeopathy.
To support their oral tradition that they are a lost tribe of Israel, direct descendants of the biblical patriarchs, the Lemba people of southern Africa point to tribal practices like circumcision, the avoidance of pork, ritual slaughter techniques, the wearing of prayer shawls and skullcaps and the ceremonial blowing of the shofar or ram's horn.
For someone who can't take gratuitous violence, I've become curiously addicted to the rituals and techniques of ancient battlecraft.
The macrocosm is conceived as a complex system of powers that by means of ritual-psychological techniques can be activated and organized within the individual body of the adept.
It scrutinized attempts to accurately identify victim and criminal that have ranged from witchcraft rituals to DNA techniques.
Chakotay is seen attempting to introduce rituals and meditation techniques to other crew members, something they failed to understand.
It is a heterogeneous group of therapies, substances, supplements, procedures, techniques, rituals, practices, systems etc, which people use, do and undergo while seeking to alleviate health problems or to maintain health.
This is often broken down into 4 things: Clinging to pleasant things & feelings, clinging to beliefs or ideas, clinging to techniques, rituals, practices, culture etc & clinging to the idea of me, mine, self, soul etc. 10.
Allen and her crew document every detail of Macri's bathing ritual, from her rinsing techniques to the way she hangs up her beloved scrungie.
