The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints. The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.

The Sacred Body Factories and the Creations of these eons old Arisings here in our Universe and beyond, are home to our Created Sacred Vessel our Sacred Body. As Soul, each of us chooses to explore what it is like to be in a Sacred Vessel, exploring an Ego Field that has as its primary ingredient no longer Feeling The Love We Are. This present work of nonfiction explores the content and Creative Manifestations of The Sacred Body Factories as well as the consequences of being in a Sacred Vessel, with its accommodative Sacred Nodal Energies, while forgetting Who/What We Really Are. Each of us is a mutually agreed- to Co-Creation of the Soul/Body Matrix with the Cosmos, and hence to honor, accept, allow, and above all else, LOVE Unconditionally this Unique Creation is critical. How we Relate to the experiences we are having here in this Ego Field while feeling so cut off from the Love We Are is deeply explored in this work Things Happen We evolve We do and say and create many things based in not Loving the self. Everything that is Created within the Sacred Body Factories, we are Co-Creating with Our Creator and with the many billions of personnel who work within and for The Sacred Body Factories - of which there are countless numbers all over the Universes. In fact, we are ourselves among these Beings who work within the Sacred Matrices of Love that so Create. We have been Gifted with many levels of experience in which to explore in this Universe and Beyond. Enjoy Your Sacredness, Your Sacred Body. Tend it Lovingly, with Great Care, Great Compassion and Consciousness. For You Created It and You are Lovingly Responsible for It. God Bless Shoh Nah

The power of the breath has been recognized for millennia as an integral part of health and well-being. In Awakening the Sacred Body, teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche makes accessible the ancient art of Tibetan breath and movement practices. In clear, easy-to-understand language, he outlines the theory and processes of two powerful meditations—the Nine Breathings of Purification and the Tsa Lung movements—that can help you change your relationship to yourself, to others, and to the world. The simple methods presented in Awakening the Sacred Body and in the accompanying online video focus on clearing and opening your energetic centers to allow the natural human qualities of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity to arise. When sadness releases, joy is able to arise. When anger releases, love becomes available. When prejudice releases, equanimity prevails. And when lack of kindness ceases, compassion is present.These practices, which focus the mind and breath together while performing specific body movements, will help you discover your inner wisdom and express your greatest potential.

Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the divine and focus instead on the “everyday sacred” of a dynamic earthly existence that emphasizes the body, celebrates life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoids abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Roberta Sabbath argues that a diverse array of Jewish artifacts, from sacred scripture to contemporary novels and ballet performance, articulate a tradition that has existed for millennia in mythic, proto-historic, legalistic, mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic expressions of Jewishness. The author refers to this tradition as Jewish literary illumination, and she deftly demonstrates how it illuminates the most salient message of Judaism: that earthly existence and the body are also the site of the spiritual and the sacred.