Conversion religious

Self-inflicted starvation was not uncommon in early religious groups, so that anorexia nervosa may have occurred in the medieval periods but Richard Martin is usually credited with the first medical description in 1689 1 do not remember that 1 ever did in all my practice see one, that was conversant with living so much wasted with the greatest degree of consumption (Uke a skeleton only clad with skin) . 

Out on the river, the past could enter the stillness and exfoliate before the mind s eye, unfurling a dark fabric of interlocking casuistry. Forces, visible and hidden, stretching back into one s past migrations religious conversions—our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In... 

As an example of religious conversion we turn to the famous Hollywood actor, Cary Grant, who showed that he could be as histrionic offstage as on when he ascribed nothing less than rebirth to his 100 LSD sessions ... 

At age 12, Robert was sent (with his brother and an academic tutor) on a European tour that was to have a strong formative influence. His keen interest in mathematical studies was first kindled by travels in France and Switzerland. At age 13, he also experi-led to intense religious conversion and convictions that he maintained throughout life in the words of a biographer,... 

Also at the recollective-analytic level fall the examples of renewed spiritual inspiration from reading of sacred literature. Biblical passages or religious terms formerly meaningless sometimes acquire vivid meanings for many readers. Like the individual who through conversion experience suddenly... 

Some aspects of organized religion appear to resemble state-specific sciences. There are techniques that allow that believer to enter a d-ASC and then have religious experiences in that d-ASC that are proof of his religious belief. People who have had such experiences usually describe them as ineffable, not fully comprehensible in an ordinary d-SoC. Conversions at revival meetings are the most common examples of religious experiences occurring in d-ASCs induced by an intensely emotional atmosphere. 

Benz also all but ignores actual or apparent losses through non-military means such as the natural excesses of deaths over births, religious conversions, unregistered emigration during and especially after the war, as well as Jews not statistically recorded as such today. In particular, Benz fails to make any mention of the partly uncontrolled and unregistered post-war mass emi-... 

Death as partisan (battle or execution) Natural excess of deaths over births Religious conversions... 

I. Feelings of rejuvenation.. ..On emerging from certain profound alterations of consciousness (e.g., psychedelic experiences,. ..hypnosis, religious conversion, transcendental and mystical states),. ..many persons claim to experience a new sense of hope, rejuvenation, renaissance, or... 

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