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- From: ailsa@ailanthus.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: skyclad ritual
- Keywords: skyclad
- Message-ID: <T0w7VB2w165w@ailanthus.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:37:52 EDT
- References: <1992Dec19.115114.859@wixer.cactus.org>
- Reply-To: ailsa@ailanthus.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
- Organization: Ailanthus Project
- Lines: 41
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- tmd@wixer.cactus.org (Tom Davis) writes:
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- > In article <BzEn0o.3HH@encore.com> aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich) wr
- > >I have a question. How many of you work skyclad and if so why do you
- > >work skyclad? ...
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- not me, usually, unless i am feeling lazy.
-
- > >... but am not sure what value add there is
- > >to ritual working with no clothes. I am not for doing it just to do
- > >it, so I thought I would ask for peoples beliefs or feelings about it
- > >here to get a wide range of thought...
- >
- > I find that it, like the other tools, works mainly as a consciousness
- > focuser -- that is, it aims my consciousness toward what I'm doing, by
- > making it _really_ clear to my mental layers that "Here is something
- > that is out of the ordinary." BTW, in the Hindu tradition, nudity is
- > very directly associated with holiness; only those whose lives are
- > dedicated to the god[desse]s and those in the process of a religious
- > ritual are nude -- but those people [men only :-(] can be nude _any-
- > where_.
- >
- whereas for me, i am naked around the house all the time, so doing a
- ritual unclad is no big difference. so i prefer to have ritual clothes
- that aren't used for anything else. of course, every time i switch
- philosophies, i need a new outfit, but that's part of the fun...
-
- -ailsa
- who shoudl be packing, or baking,
- present wrapping, or ANTHING but
- reading the net!!!
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