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Spiritual traditions in and of themselves develop so many helpful competencies.

For example, the spiritual traditions of Native American ghost and sun dances,

druidic magic and rituals, Hindu Jainist and Buddhist meditations among so many not only can produce

states that allow us to step outside of the limitations of our physical capabilities

and the context. It can allow us to step outside of the routine justifications and

rationalizations of our life it can allow us to step outside of the limiting framing thoughts about ourselves.

It can allow us to invest everyday activities with a sense of sacredness and importance.

It allows us to develop and maintain homeostasis,

which means a state of calm, while we're adapting to the changing conditions around

us, especially in such as the period right now of a pandemic.

But I suppose what I'd most like to talk to us today

is about the importance of transcendent practices which allow us to step outside of the mundane perceptions. gain perceptions and

and narratives of our life

and allow us to uncover underlying, not only underlying, unifying drives of natural life and which

allow us in turn to develop bonds with others.

But more importantly, allow us to rise above

our actual settings of time and place

and perceive new possibilities outside of our self-oriented perspectives.

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