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What is Spirituality

Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government
An engagement with spirit or any human practice that maintains contact between the everyday world and a meta-empirical framework of meaning (Hanegraaff, 2000, pp. 294-296) by way of direct experience and individual manipulation of symbolic systems.
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The Dance of Aurora: Media Priestesses and Auric Fields
Psyence Vedava (Independent Research, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch015
Abstract
This chapter suggests that embodied ritual practices of the feminine—involving media, art, psycho-spiritual technologies, and techniques of the occult—manifest transmedial auric fields that weave the dance of Aurora, the dance of awakening of the Goddess of Light. These fields resonate with the universal heart vibe, channeling the healing energies of the cosmic Mother to the physical, the digital, the mental, and the tech-noetic. Specific examples from the work of three women are presented, namely Dr. Lila Moore, Vedava (the author of this chapter) and Sedona Soulfire. These modern creatrixes actualize their media priestess function by fusing consciousness and the imaginative with the ancient and the futuristic, in the convergence of art, body, technology, and 21st century feminine spirituality.
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The quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things (Oxford, 2020).
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