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  2. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience , awareness , subjectivity , qualia , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness , having a sense ...

  3. Ritual behavior in animals - Wikipedia

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    Animal faith is the study of animal behaviours that suggest proto-religious faith. It is commonly believed that religion and faith are unique to humans, [1] [2] [3] largely due to the typical dictionary definition of the word religion (see e.g. Wiktionary or Dictionary.com) requiring belief in a deity, which has not been observed in non-human animals. [4]

  4. Union, how you feel it: Navigating spiritual revelations in ...

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    The post Union, how you feel it: Navigating spiritual revelations in modern relationships appeared first on TheGrio. Alisha Lola Jones and Calvin Taylor Skinner challenge us […]

  5. Animism - Wikipedia

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    Harvey cited the example of Māori communities in New Zealand, who often offer karakia invocations to sweet potatoes as they dig up the latter. While doing so, there is an awareness of a kinship relationship between the Māori and the sweet potatoes, with both understood as having arrived in Aotearoa together in the same canoes. [132]

  6. Moral status of animals in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    He writes that it remains unclear how the concept of ius developed into the idea of modern rights, but a key feature of the latter is that the relationship between persons is articulated from the perspective of the relationship's beneficiary, the holder of the right. This is an important idea in the development of the concept of animal rights ...

  7. Dogs in religion - Wikipedia

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    Similar as the ancient Egypt's relationship of dogs in religion, in ancient Mesopotamia, the goddess Gula was symbolized by a dog, emphasizing the animal's role in healing and protection. [46] The ancient Greeks also had their own canine deity, Hecate, associated with magic, crossroads, and the underworld. These early religious associations ...

  8. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Consciousness: A quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Many philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness which is experience itself and access consciousness ...

  9. Self-realization - Wikipedia

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    This awareness helps to understand that the body and its experiences are temporary and separate from the true self. Asti is the deeper awareness that follows, where one recognizes and becomes aware of the true nature of the soul itself. It involves a deeper reflection on the unchanging, eternal self beyond all external and internal transient ...