The sun is shining and there is light everywhere. As you know the sun was one of the main objects of adoration in humankind – which means that we have to have collective rituals.
That’s I think religion can play a very important role since people are sharing the same respect for the same mysteries. Yet, spiritually, you can’t transfer your path to someone else.
So, I would like to know: Are you engaged in some kind of collective worship?
I’m not talking about religion: I’m actually talking about dance, sports, basically everything that we can do together and that at the end of the day we feel we are part of the same movement. So I would like to hear your opinion on that and hear of your collective worships – outside of religion if possible.
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Parei para pensar e não encontrei nada que não fosse ligado ao coletivismo,tudo o que eu faço está ligado ao coletivismo,música,filosofia,livros,xadrez,sonhos, tudo.
Acho que Os seres humanos por questões de sobrevivência procuram se adaptar a sociedade(o que todos gostam/o que todos fazem)e acredita que sua escolha de liberdade é individual(eu faço o que eu gosto)mas na verdade é coletiva,Afinal de contas nossas escolhas são casuais ou determinadas?Eu acredito que sejam determinadas,não somos responsáveis ( em partes )pelo que fazemos.A liberdade não é uma simples questão de livre arbítrio(muitas vezes agimos inconscientemente)existem sensações,percepções,adaptações e sentimentos.Tudo está ligado a companhia humana, ao coletivismo.Acho que só o Robson Crusoé fazia as coisas sem pensar no coletivo rs rs.
yo personalmente pertenezco a un grupo que practicamos una disciplina deportiva llamada tai-chi el muy linda son una suma de ejercicios en los que involucramos la mente el cuerpo e incluso el alma nos regocijamos con esmero y placer todas las mañanas y creeme paulo que desde que lo practivo tanto mi cuerpo como mi mente quedan listos para empezar un dia lleno de gozo y buena voluntad. Cualquier problema puede ser tratado con calma y amor
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Participar,colaborar en grupo ya sea en deporte o en otras actividades hace al ser humano más persona . . .He participado he varios grupos colectivos, la mayoría de deporte, como son: fútbol, lucha canaria, baloncesto . . . y la verdad que uno con el ejercicio físico se encuentra más realizado.Son pilares importantes en nuestra vida.Nos relacionamos con otras personas y hacemos trabajar al cuerpo y a la mente y nos hace una vida más llevadera …
En la actualidad no hago deporte( debería hacer algo para liberar energía)
Un Abrazo.
I practice the collective worship of capitalism… working for profit, been worried about not wasting time and thinking a college diploma is the way to go…
At my University I’m a part of the Bhangra dance club. The team is so diverse with men and women from all over the US and the world and I like the music, it makes me happy, fills me with joy and everytime I learn a new step or just dance I feel the same energy around me. The club meets 3 times a week for 2 hours and I look forward to every moment. Although the dance might be an ethnic dance from some place in India, we use the steps to dance to anything, the dance is just fun
The Balinese in Indonesia perform a ritual enactment of the story of Rama and Sinta adopted from Indian folklore.
The performers – in the role of Hanomans’ monkey troops – will then get into a Kecak Dance where they sit around the main protagonists,becoming a small theatre in itself.
These Kecak dancers will then get into a trance after reciting in different speeds and rhytms the word “Kecak” over and over again.
Upon that stage they will perform certain things like stab themselves with a Keris dagger, inflicting no harm or play football using a blazing coconut.
It’s highly entertaining yet you also feel a sense of collective worship there.
Dear Paulo – If I may…’Collective Worship’ means the same thing to me as ‘Collective Consciousness’…some of what comes to mind -
Speaking to my heart and asking it what it needs to learn next; speaking to someone elses heart in order to reveal the same; Understanding that my pain is where growth occurs and allowing that growth to sustain me and how I ‘am’; supporting ecological practices; standing by the edge of the ocean and soaking it all in; enjoying the beauty and fraqrance of a flower; returning a smile; returning a kind word or a moment of peaceful breath or realization to a a cruel other; allowing a spider to spin it’s web; not standing on an ant; spending time with others enjoying kicking a ball around so we can just ‘be’ alive in the light and sun; developing a ‘solution focussed’ approach to life’s struggles whatever or wherever they may be; not giving up on Love; Sacred Dance, ritual and communal learning to uplift spiritual growth into the Light of our heavenly existence on Earth; subscribing to organizations, literature or lifestyles which promote healthy and positive change for the planet and those on it; unconditional love; eating a peanut butter sandwich made with organic ingredients; not using plastic water bottles; Recycling; seeing myself as a role model; Believing that I have the right to feel good about myself and transposing that within my relationships and the etheric music we make together; looking for role models and kindred spirit; understanding that we are all part of each other and of the planet; spending time in ‘Nature’; Looking for signs; patterns and illumination; Seeing the truth in the eyes of children; Respecting the rights of children and what we need to learn from them as being nearer to God and the truth; Working towards inner peace and peace without; Learning to be humble; watching my ego perform so as to align it with the need to come from a more healing, empathic and humane perspective; Putting myself in the shoes of all other sentient being…
So I suppose I see everything in or about life as a matter of ‘collective worship’…as though everything we think, believe, do or say is infinitesemally involved in all we create within and without us…
I’m ‘In Love’…
Marguerite xx
love this Marguerite…….
stay in love
At southern India , there is a place called Kodungaloor ,
where a very particular form of expression is practiced. During a particular day lot of people men and women will gather with swords, and will sing songs and dance. To the common man that may appear absurd, But its really deep.
The day is called Kodungaloor Bharani
I’m into sword-fighting (wu wei) and sword-dancing, but have stopped because I was ill. Now I am planning to be active at it again.
Everyday I look for other people’s creations that will make me smile/laugh/feel good and I try to share them as well, adding my own perspective or pure silliness/joy. So I worship creativity and the process of creating, it’s really a ritual to me: if I don’t brainstorm, my day is not complete. It’s a feeling of being whole and a part of everything at the same time.
Great topic!
SHILLY shillyness I am all for IT.
I dance samba and I feel a special connection to the other dancers in my group and it’s beautiful! This I feel with many other dance forms and it’s the best feeling!
i always stare at the moon (because unfortunately, no stars on jakarta’s sky) at night and when i lived in third floor, i always rearrange my bed so that the moonlight would fall right on my face. Always on the fullmoon night (every 15th day on chinese calendar). I think i sort of worshipping the moon.
the violin was magic…I enjoyed the leaf floating about as well, many thanks.:)
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