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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:22 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:24 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:09 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:54 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:09 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:55 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:48 am
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DemoniaFairy Shearaha I do a type of fast during the fall equinox. From sunrise until the evening meal, after sunset, I don't eat anything and I only drink water. For me it's part of my harvest time. I fast to remind myself that without the bounties of the harvest I won't have any food during the colder months. It reminds me to be thankful to the gods for their blessings. It's also really hard for me to do because I spend almost the whole day preparing the evening meal from scratch. I do everything but kill and clean the main course. That's admirable, I can not skip a meal without feeling miserable! gonk How do you make it through the day? What do you do when hunger kicks in? Or is it pretty easy for you to go all day with only water? I get through by thinking about why I'm doing it. When I get hungry I drink some water. It's not easy, but if it was then it wouldn't be worth doing and it wouldn't be a sacrifice.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:51 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:44 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:35 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:14 am
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My faith requires me to fast semi-often. It's triggered by certain times of year, certain festivals, certain rituals, and a whole host of other reasons.
As far as specific reasons go, the most common is as a purification prior to ritual. I think the other most common reason for the fast is that I'm a mystic, and the deprivation combined with moving meditation and singing really put me into place. I've also fasted out of solidarity with my community.
For your final question, the reason that I continue to make fasting central to my spiritual life is because I feel continually that it is successful. The deprivation as I mentioned really puts me into the "other space," that parts of my spirituality need me to be in. When I'm fasting with community, the sense of collective suffering is pretty meaningful for me as well.
Shearaha For me it's part of my harvest time. I fast to remind myself that without the bounties of the harvest I won't have any food during the colder months. It reminds me to be thankful to the gods for their blessings. It's also really hard for me to do because I spend almost the whole day preparing the evening meal from scratch. I do everything but kill and clean the main course.
I do this on the opposite side of winter. I go into the fasting period during Lent prior to a big festival for the Spring Equinox. A big part of the mentality there is "things were bad, hunker down, because they will soon get better." Toward the Autumn, that switches to "things were good, hunker down, because they will soon get worse."
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:55 am
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:21 am
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Yanueh DemoniaFairy That's pretty fascinating! I wonder if there is a spiritual reason for the fruit or if the fruit is eaten to prevent hypoglycemia? Considering that the energy from most fruit is pretty much all carbs, fruit would be the one of the worst things you could eat to prevent hypoglycemia. confused I didnt know that either. I learn something new everyday whee
(I assumed the fruit would help because of the sugar it contains) sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:36 am
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