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Witches, Gods, and Voices - Dr. Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford Anthropology

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Soia Meditation - It's So Much Easier Than Meditation

In the christian tradition, you have these two kinds broadbrush, two kinds of prayer. You've got a prayer which is apothatic via necativa, taking stuff out of your mind and what we think of as like the american version of buddhism. And soia meditation is sometimes in exercise and frustration, catapatet prayer, you're cultivating your inner experience. You're trying to shape what you know, what's happening. The mediaeval e monks would talk about like painting your interior mind. They would talk about trying to replace your own memories with stories of the scripture,. So that when you looked inside yourself, all you would have would be, would

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