Daily routines of back breaking-labour and spiritual purification are documented in sniggering detail, and much fun is had at the expense of midwestern middle classes, eastern mystical cults. 5. Arcadia by Lauren Groff This story centres around a young boy, Bit, and his confused relationship with the largely naked polygamous, vegan older people who won't quite admit to being his parents.
A wildly diverse compendium of poems, chants, myths, gospels, pagan documents, and spiritual instructions, the texts are distinct evidence of fierce theological debate and of an alternative tradition within early Christianity — a kind of mystical variant, much like the Zen tradition in Buddhism, Kabbalah in Judaism, Sufism in Islam.
It's an important historical document, a spiritual guide, a lovely work of poetry.
But his longtime appetite for marijuana persists, so he heads to Jamaica for a monthlong spiritual pilgrimage of sorts, documented in this competent film from Andy Capper.
Other films capture a young woman's spiritual journey through dance, document a jazz musician's life, and look, variously, at a woman disc jockey in Texas, a young girl searching for her mother and a gifted high school student who travels through time.
All peers receiving such writs were enrolled in the Register of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, a document maintained by the Clerk of the Parliaments.
One year later, filmmaker Jonas Elrod of the OWN series "In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod" traveled to Colorado to meet with Amanda and document her spiritual journey.
These document the possible spiritual fates of the viewers: that they might reach Heaven or Hell, salvation or damnation; stark alternatives appropriate for a hospice.
Greaves began documenting Lauren's spiritual journey just three weeks after it began, and continued throughout the next seven years, during which Lauren underwent a number of rituals of increasing import, sealing her relationship to the church.
The selection of letters, manuscripts and codices document the political and spiritual power wielded by the church throughout the Middle Ages until the late 19th century.
