Sentence examples for spiritual intent from inspiring English sources

But he was also disturbed by the cavalier use of LSD as a drug for entertainment, arguing that it should be treated in the way that primitive societies treat psychoactive sacred plants, which are ingested with care and spiritual intent.

Although its spiritual intent is evident in its repeated use of chantlike monody and its repeated specification of the "celestial voice" registration, the music is abstract, colorful and multifaceted enough to rivet even the skeptic.

The use of the purple colour inserted in the gilded cross crowning the dome can suggest his particular spiritual intent.

I also knew that Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA, had consumed LSD with spiritual intent".

The Treachery of Sanctuary is an interactive triptych that shares a spiritual intent with the prehistoric paintings on the walls of the caves of Lascaux.

And the spiritual intent of man reaching closer to the divine comes more readily to a visitor in a place so magnificent.

After her husband's death in 1967, she ventured deeper into spiritual study, adopting the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda and releasing albums with a forthright religious intent.

In the late 1990s he turned to the study of Falun Gong and then joined with a small group of technically sophisticated members of the spiritual group intent on transmitting millions of e-mail messages to Chinese.

If Mr. Rostovsky tackles the spiritual realm, Julie Mehretu seems intent on creating an elaborately stratified social cosmos in a diptych titled "Arcadia and Bushwick Burning".

If a society is supported by its leaders to keep bringing purity of intent, wellness, spiritual power,and wisdom to the lives of its people, then that country could stand as an example of inner peace, which in turn could create world peace.

Wright's father immediately suspected a prank, but her mother was more easily taken in, and instead took the images to a meeting of 'theosophists' intent on exploring the spiritual world.