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| Ancestors persist after death |
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| God is both immanent and trancendent |
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| God greater than just inside us |
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| spirtual presence (impersonal) |
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| personal spiritual presence |
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descendents of the original inhabitants of lands
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beliefs concerning the creation of the world
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| mystical intermediaries between the physical and non-physical world |
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a Dahomey tradition from West African carried to Haiti by African slaves
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| given to the Plains Indians as a tool for communicating with the divine |
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a practice in which an individual through fasting, prayer, and isolation seeks a spiritual revelation
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among the Oglala Lakota, participants in this ceremony go for four days without food and water seeking blessings for their people
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| Plant's ability to discern truth |
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| Meridian lines on earth, thought of as powerful- vital energy force |
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Prerequisites for Sun Dance |
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- Vision quest
- tree
- sacred pipe
- whistle
- piercing
- rebirth
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