Bodies, Rituals, and Conscious Evolution

The Power of Liturgical Spirituality (Part 5)

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A DISEMBODIED WORLD

I was well into adulthood, had been married for two decades, and had become a father, before I learned to claim my body as my own. The religious culture in which I was raised was not extreme in any way; it was an ordinary, mainstream church. Yet I still managed to absorb an extremely negative and restri…