Ouija boards are used to attempt to commune with spirits.
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To commune with his art is to bask in higher truths.
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"simple farm" and "religious commune" with a mere 50 agricultural workers.
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Commune with goats and hug trees as your heart guides you.
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And that allows entertainers to commune with each other across decades.
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Maria Tri Sulistyani, co-founder, allows visitors to commune with the puppets.
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The annual meetup is a chance to commune with their fellow survivalists.
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""It is when you're trying to commune with the spirits of nature!
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First, though, he had wanted to commune with his fans, his people.
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Families commune with each other in this way about 7303% of the time.
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It's now a respectable way to commune with the public and share information.
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You don't have to be a monk to commune with the surrounding mountains.
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In retirement they swim to free their minds, to commune with the water.
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Plenty. Commune with the Silicon Valley community over craft beer and signature cocktails.
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Have you ever wanted to commune with nature without having to rough it?
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So I felt I could slow down, honor these people, and commune with them.
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He lived in the Plaza, an artists' commune with an aura of fading luxury.
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Merrill would frequently take it out after dinner, and try to commune with spirits.
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Clearly, summer is not the time to commune with Thoreau's spirit at Walden Pond.
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It makes for a nice excuse to get out and just commune with nature.
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She has found someone to commune with, it seems, if only in her mind.
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At most American summer camps children still commune with nature and sing around a campfire.
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She did not just commune with the artworks, she wrote about it, to an audience.
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But perhaps the best way to commune with Joyce is to open up his books.
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When we listen to games on the radio, we commune with our cities and our fandoms.
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It's one thing for tourists on "safari" at a luxury lodge to commune with the bruins.
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It's the season of freedom; a time to commune with Mother Nature and our unfettered selves.
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Viewers commune with the root structures of trees in Yulia Pinkusevich's piece The Luxuriant Prolific Undying.
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Commune with nature, eat seasonal fruits and vegetables, drink some juice or tea, and enjoy the sun.
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You could really do an incredible drama comparing the ashram and the commune with the Medicis' court.
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" He continued: "They are merely the means to commune with God; and not the end in themselves.
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Black and white day dresses, almost saintly in their simplicity, commune with strappy sandals and lace gloves.
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In 1915, he formed a commune with followers (black and white) in a New York apartment building.
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Sports of The Times In April, Phil Jackson emerged briefly from his hermitage to commune with reporters.
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But they transcended those forces to commune with space, and thereby redefined themselves and those around them.
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For the casual plant owner, that may be too high a price to commune with the leaves.
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In Italy, it is a thoughtful time to commune with one's dead and maybe think about the infinite.
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Dance music has always been utilitarian—an excuse to throw a party, a reason to commune with strangers.
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It involves a commune with nature, the water an inch away and the waves rocking and straddling the boat.
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Cline's prose is assured and stylish, and she evokes a sweaty, grimy summer on a commune with unromantic precision.
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In his new book, he writes that his ability to commune with spirits appeared when he was a toddler.
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Here, you can look at artists who share a philosophy with a choreographer: You can commune with a choreographer.
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Once, I went to northern Alaska to commune with the Inupiat Eskimo population and find my inner pup spirit.
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Many have spiritual or supernatural explanations for their voices; they think they are psychic or can commune with spirits.
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They want "to live simply, to build their own things and to commune with God," said the father, Gedalia Meyer.
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Books of The Times The travel writer Bruce Chatwin, in order to commune with nature, was known to hike naked.
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"Where will you take me?" says Thérèse, who has wandered into the meadows to commune with her only friend, the river.
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But many people also deliberately feed wild animals, bringing bags of bread or peanuts to the park to commune with nature.
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Perhaps that acid you left in your freezer for an entire year can still help you commune with the astral plane.
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He may need to commune with the ghost of his famed ancestor, who is apparently still remembered and respected by Afghans.
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Deck is all grown up now, a Hollywood producer, and driving from Dallas to Houston to commune with his estranged daughter.
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If Serena wanted to commune with nature, she thought, she might as well take the secateurs with her and achieve something.
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God is spirit, and all the great masters emphasize instead that we need to learn spiritual disciplines to commune with God.
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Sahrawi, she noted, grew up in the Tindouf camps – an Algerian sprawling commune with military installments – and also studied in the country.
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THE ANCIENT Nabataean site of Mada'in Saleh, in north-western Saudi Arabia, is a place where the dead commune with the living.
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For people of color, however, taking the day to commune with nature isn't always as simple as lacing up and getting outside.
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Where did the idea of Matriarchs, a group of women who commune with a God-like figure called All-Mother, come from?
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The lodgings are marketed as a means to commune with nature without the inconveniences of heavy backpacks, cold tents and questionable hygiene.
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On a break from a hectic publicity schedule last month, she decided to commune with a more quotidian breed of domesticated animal.
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We see (via video projection) what the mirror sees: a hungry man who can commune with, and draw sustenance from, himself alone.
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The helicopter that delivered him and three other skiers into the mountains has since disappeared, leaving the group to commune with the quiet.
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According to Bob Woodward, Clinton and spiritual advisor Jean Houston would commune with Eleanor Roosevelt and ask the famous first lady for advice.
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For a special breed of Americans, making and decorating cookies is a form of therapy and a tasty way to commune with others.
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The box has an on-off switch, and I'm going to turn it on so that the mechanism can commune with my head.
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I made my family take a detour to Woodstock during a road trip so I could commune with spiritual residue of the flower children.
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Visitors can commune with lions, tigers, zebras, antelope, wildebeest, wild horses and many more sanctuary animals, including dogs who live there (it's pet friendly!).
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It is a time when the doorway to the "other world" is open and we can commune with the dead—a time of divination.
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"Eleven years of this group of women in this play not having an audience to commune with has been a phantom limb," she said.
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Skip the crowds along the Manoa Falls Trail and head instead to the nearby Lyon Arboretum to commune with biodiversity in a tropical rainforest.
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I thought it was such a beautiful story: People reaching across race and culture to share with one another, to commune with one another.
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Mr. Tesler left computing for a short while after that and moved to an Oregon commune with his daughter from a short-lived marriage.
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Most people today cannot see "the ancient starry connection to the starry dynamo" let alone commune with the four-legged ones of the wilderness.
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Are you worried that your child might be making her way down to the seas each night to commune with the Great Old Ones?
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Attracted to Drop City's material sensibility, but skeptical of its reliance on capitalist norms, Cortez set out to imagine a commune with other logic.
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A godswood is traditionally a small wooded area inside of a Westerosi castle where a family can worship and commune with their nature-based deities.
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Superfans hoping to commune with the ultimate "Africa" shrine will be disappointed to know that Siedentopf has not disclosed the location of his art installation.
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The Melbourne-based artist, who considers himself a "human photographer," is attempting to commune with life by capturing the natural wonder of the Land Down Under.
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Employee perks at Amazon will soon include treehouses where engineers commune with nature to refresh their minds and meet in rooms with walls crawling with vines.
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" Now Brand writes that he is less self-focused and can better "commune with [his] feelings" because he's surrendered himself to belief in a "Higher Power.
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They are gay men who commune with the spirit world in order to escape, in part, this world, with its fag-bashing and internalized self-hatred.
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The doc also has an endlessly fascinating anchor in Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's former secretary, who led the commune with intimidation and devotion behind the scenes.
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I don't believe that our loved ones can commune with us from beyond the grave, any more than I believe that spouses occasionally reincarnate as Dalmatians.
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For the next few hours, as my son sat in commune with baboon babies, adults and elders, we took in the sites of the hilly retreat.
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"It was completely criminal," Stork, an Australian housewife who moved to the commune with her two kids and husband in 1981, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
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From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, Prince took advantage of the relative seamlessness of the Internet to remake how artists could commune with their fans.
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For your outdoorsy friends or family members who want to stay connected while they commune with Mother Nature, this solar-powered charging bank is the perfect present.
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I don't stumble upon them while shopping so much as I commune with them while sifting through white noise to find lost pieces of my dream self.
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But the festival is marketed more as a fantasy camp for liberals, thousands of whom take the opportunity to commune with a magazine they consider their own.
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If my body wasn't involved—if I could just commune with people through mental contact or some sort of spiritual communion—I wouldn't have to be afraid.
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But students who want to commune with Kant and Keats shouldn't be made to feel that they're indulgent dilettantes throwing away all hope of a lucrative livelihood.
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There is only the individual, trying to impress Mr. Trump, to flatter Mr. Trump, to commune with his mind and anticipate his whims and fits of pique.
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Sure, it can keep us from going on a sketchy blind date, but our intuition doesn't usually help us commune with the other side or divine future events.
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Eventually, the beauty vlogger hopes to pursue a doctorate in audiology and dreams of world where the hearing and the hearing impaired can easily commune with one another.
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On his two previous expeditions, both heading for the Pole, he had made a point of wandering off each evening to commune with the land and with ghosts.
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Born the child of Baptist missionaries, Brinton grew up all over the world, and would come back to the U.S. to live in a commune with other missionaries.
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It was a journey well worth taking, if only to commune with the ibises, great blue herons and cormorants wading in the mangroves — unspoiled Florida at its best.
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It's tough to commune with nature when you aren't fully prepared to deal with the elements, so we're giving away everything you need to have a memorable trip.
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It's hard to imagine anyone else manically painting the alphabet on a wall and stringing it with Christmas lights so her son can commune with her from another dimension.
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Although we can't commune with animals, it seems there's little doubt Tahlequah, also known as J35, was exhibiting grief, an emotion increasingly recognized in animals, from cattle to elephants.
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While his condition had transformed his sense of reality—allowing him to commune with the dead, making visible what was invisible to others—it was also a mechanical problem.
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Solar power bank For your outdoorsy friends or family members who want to stay connected while they commune with Mother Nature, this solar-powered charging bank is the perfect present.
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He's Native American in our corporal realm as well, just not the sort tourists wish to commune with, he argues—until one does, stealing his job and his life story.
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They are also making a research voyage to Switzerland because the restaurant's first chef, Albert Stockli, came from there, and they want to commune with the roots of his cooking.
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The Zucker Natural Exploration Area is an oasis built for imaginative and active children who like to commune with nature while leaving plenty of comfortable places for parents to relax.
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Solar-Powered Charger For your outdoorsy friends or family members who want to stay connected while they commune with Mother Nature, this solar-powered charging bank is the perfect present.
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We had journeyed from all over the world, most of us alone and many of us terrified, to a charming, albeit muddy mill house to commune with others like us.
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In case you need some time during the fair to wind down, contemplate life and commune with at least the illusion of nature, Goodman has prepared a place for you.
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When opting to operate indifferent to influence, fans eager for fiction will find their buzz killed by a normalcy that denies them the fictitious place they desire to commune with.
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It's great to commune with those that you love and catch up and talk to people but I know a lot of people get annoyed in the show setting with that.
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Called "Dharma" by his hippie parents, he spent his early years on a commune with no running water or electricity; he changed his name to Daniel Stewart when he was 12.
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Though dead for more than 90 years, Lenin lives on in his mausoleum and in the minds of millions of Russians who have stood in line to commune with a corpse.
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We needed a space to vent, to cry, to dream about starting a commune with Hillary Clinton and anthropomorphizing Tom Hardy into a dreamy horse we could ride into the sunset.
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This is supposedly a good time to commune with your inner self, reflect on changes you want to make in your life, and determine how you might put those plans in motion.
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At this family-run Santería store, rainbows of incense and prayer candles line the walls, ready to help you kick-start luck in money and romance or commune with loved ones past.
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After landing in Glasgow early in the morning, I gritted my teeth and skipped a nap, energized by the opportunity to commune with places I had long pictured fuzzily in my mind.
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But before you're ready to swim in one of Tulum's famous cenotes or commune with its vibrant sea life during a snorkeling adventure, you've got to scope out the city's unique style, obviously.
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Though some later took the Victorians to task for exoticizing the East, these travelers were a daring lot: They faced down heat, dust, floods and (occasionally) mutinous crews to commune with Egypt's past.
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"Whatever's going to help you commune with nature and have a great experience, I'm all for it," said Kevin Rosenberg, who runs Gear to Go Outfitters, an online equipment-rental and guide service.
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And while Jan is in charge, it's clear to everyone (including him) that Antonina is the gifted one, able to calm the animals and seemingly commune with them all, no matter the species.
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"More than 100,000 people have waited patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature," wrote Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's artistic director and chief curator, on the museum's website.
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Stutts is one of a group of around 1,200 like-minded survivalists who meet up every year in the hills of western North Carolina to commune with their fellow preppers and learn new skills.
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And, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow also promotes this guy called the Medical Medium who was born with an ability to commune with a spirit called Spirit, like Cher, like, goes by one name, Spirit.
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The total price tag of a couple hours of fun and getting to know someone else is $5, and even if the company sucks at least you got to commune with nature a bit.
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By the time she was 20183, she was involved in séances, trying to commune with the dead, but soon decided that it was a better course of action to attempt contact with higher spirits.
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The Borscht Belt was a place to commune with other Jews at a time when Jewish immigrants to America, many of them Holocaust survivors, were finding their footing in a largely still-anti-Semitic world.
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Blocks south of the fashion storefront that once housed CBGB, where Television played often in the '70s, the event is an opportunity to commune with New York's post-punk past and wonder what's to come.
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A woman with braids might rule a kingdom (Beyoncé channeling Nefertiti; Elizabeth I, who wore hers beneath a wig; Khaleesi on "Game of Thrones") or commune with nature à la Heidi or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Travelers commune with nature, and each other, by camping — with the comfort of real beds and a staff to do the hunting, gathering and cocktail shaking — at the Resort at Paws Up in western Montana.
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Mon 10.31 | House of YesTickets: FREE before 10 with RSVP, $10.10-20, Sexy seance vibes, Ouija boards, tarot readings, fresh fruit, massages, libations, and sultry house music to help you commune with spirits of the veil.
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Logically, there has been speculation that this is a farewell visit, one more chance to commune with the unpredictable Roland Garros public that has treated him much better than it has treated most through the decades.
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There was one good stretch in his twenties when he lived in a commune with hippies and spent his time building rock walls and strolling around naked playing guitar and building pens at a nearby goat farm.
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"The musicians would be playing their drums and flutes and all the adults would be smiling and crying," recalls Dickon Kent, who moved to the commune with his mother from England in 1981 when he was 583.
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Living in a DIY venue for 6 years, booking shows all the time, performing all the time, basically running a radical art commune with my best friends was the best life education I could have asked for.
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Shortly after the assassination, the elder Choi sent several letters to the grieving Park, claiming that the soul of her dead mother had visited him in dreams and that Park could commune with her mother through him.
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Prepper Camp is about building community, now and for the end of the worldWhether they come to learn about raising chickens or picking out guns and bullets, preppers are here to commune with their people, first and foremost.
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If his influence abides, it will be thanks to initiatives like the one at Hostos, giving children and aficionados the opportunity to learn the basics, commune with elders and experience his music as a catalyst for something else.
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" This mirroring between novelist and character is expressed in the novel's take on a curtained world, where Press sees humans as "bipedal forms" and lusts after Carol, an artist from the nearby hippie commune, with "her shape apparitional.
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But we have found a balance in providing what the other needs, and that includes space: Space to be our true selves, warts and all; space to commune with friends separately; space to have differing opinions on faith.
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That ecosystem brings us all a step closer to the world depicted in the movie Her, in which characters like Theo Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix, commune with their virtual assistants in powerful and productive ways, effortlessly, through speech.
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Just remember to mark up your books profusely, so that one day, when you're jaded like me, you can commune with your former selves in the margin of a novel, and remember you weren't always who you are now.
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In 1981, following conflict with the ruling party in India and traditional religious groups (and one assassination attempt by a Hindu fundamentalist), Rajneesh relocated to Oregon, where he planned to open his own commune with 2,000 of his followers.
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Every August hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over Myanmar descend on this village 20km north of Mandalay to commune with nats, spirits willing to bless the faithful with good fortune if they are given the right offering.
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Now's the time to reconnect with your spiritual practice, to commune with your inner voice, and connect with people you love and trust to help guide you—again, someone who has "been there, done that" will be very helpful.
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Leave some energy in your tank for the Gala of the Gone on Monday night at House of Yes, where seances, altars, libations, fruit offerings, tarot readings, and house music will help you commune with spirits of the past.
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Then, during the first World War, members of the women's movement in Russia organized the first unofficial International Women's Day on March 8, 1913, the 803th anniversary of the Paris Commune, with a goal of peacefully protesting the war.
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While rock bands like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles dominate touring, they attract an older fan base "and the last thing they want to do is go to a festival and camp and commune with 19703,21970 people," Gensler said.
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For example, The Leftovers might not want to be explicit about whether a character can actually commune with the dead, or literally hug away grief, so its writers instead script scenes exploring why people would want to believe miracles are possible.
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Now, visitors to the bothy, newly renovated and opened in 2017, can quietly commune with the memory of R. Robson and J. Proudlock, two local forestry workers who, 60 years ago, etched their names into the building's cement window frame.
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I watched my Facebook feed unite last week to commune with the oeuvre of David Bowie one last time, and couldn't help but wonder if any of today's artists could ever garner that sort of pervasive support decades from now.
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The space witches have prophesied the coming of the Kwisatz Haderach (Chosen One) who will be able to commune with a primordial force in all beings called Other Memory (the Force) that in part augments their physical, mental, and extrasensory powers.
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Taking place just a few blocks south of the fashion storefront that once housed CBGB, where Television played frequently in the 1970s, it's an opportunity to commune with New York's flickering post-punk past and wonder what's still to come.
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I am very concerned with your racially-tinged tweets, the fact that most of the American Nazi Party members follow you and commune with you, and the fact that most of the Ku Klux Klan accounts follow you and do the same.
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But readers latched onto certain nuances in the Elder Brother's choices of words (he refers to "The Hound" as dead, but says Sandor Clegane is "at rest"), as well as an unnamed gravedigger at the commune, with injuries similar to the Hound's.
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"Jerry would learn to love, respect, and commune with the very people that he had once, with all of his might, tried to kill, and who had taken the lives of the fellow airmen closest to him," Brown writes in the epilogue.
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Now that the men have made Michael aware of his boundless powers, therefore allowing the young man to commune with the satanic depths hiding inside of him, he is poised to become the antichrist figure viewers have met in the present day timeline.
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I'd take those widely shared photographs and beneath them I'd write comedic tales of girls on study abroad or last-minute cross-country road trips and stories about nymphs posing naked in the forest to "commune" with nature without the hassle of clothes.
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But as anyone who loves reading and writing quickly learns, both activities allow you to commune with the living and the dead, to listen to the thoughts of those who have come before you and argue, cajole, and sing praise for them in response.
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Thanks to its planchette-shaped packaging, the powder will give you that familiar feeling of holding in your hand a tool with which to commune with the dead, except it'll just set your foundation, blur fine lines and wrinkles, and leave your skin silky smooth.
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That's likely what most of the audience paid more than A$100 to experience — not a confusing DJ set in an anonymous dance hall, but a chance to commune with an artist whose creative output through music, fine arts and technology has been so rich.
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I had spent the better part of a week eating Jorjadze's food, listening to people commune with her, trying to understand why a forgotten cookbook author had become a vivid presence in their lives, but, to be honest, I couldn't get a handle on her.
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In this fantastical novel by the author of the best-seller "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," two girls born at the same hour on a snowy November day have otherworldly gifts: Clara is an Italian piano prodigy, and Maria, in France, can commune with nature.
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Kristin Cavallari and her husband — until recently the Chicago Bears' quarterback — have been enjoying a vacation on the sunny beaches of Mexico, and it seems the currently team-less NFL star is really taking this time to commune with nature, without anything getting in the way.
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After watching Coon commune with her darkest parts for years between apocalypse dirge The Leftovers, apocalypse blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War (where she played the darkly-named Proxima Midnight), dark FX comedy Fargo, and, now, The Sinner, it seems even the actress herself if ready to laugh.
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Finally allowing herself to commune with her heart side, Beth instructed the driver of their car home from the airport to pit-stop at Shauna's apartment, where she and Randall discovered something grim: Mother and daughter had been evicted and were now living out of a car.
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You could argue that it all goes back to our modern way of life, that our hunger for the real stems from the increasing amount of time we spend away from it, opting instead to plunge into virtual worlds and to commune with our digital peers.
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At least in the Dutch press, they seem to interpret any deviation from the white-cube presentation or the solo exhibition as a restriction on their sovereign right to commune with the artwork, without seeing how much the white cube and solo protocols are themselves curatorial devices.
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Still, the notion that generates such an anthology-memoir, the idea that poems must be filtered through a scrim of ordinary language and life in order for us to commune with them, in order that they be "understood" in some definite way, is wrongheaded and, indeed, condescending.
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If your woo-woo tendencies run a little more reflective, check out Mira Ptacin's The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna, an engaging first-person account of the time the author spent at a remote Maine camp where people commune with the dead.
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In this case, it's Bow (here played by Arica Himmel), who must deal with being a mixed-race child in the 1980s -- quite an adjustment after life on a hippie commune -- with Gary Cole as her gruff grandpa, who steals pretty much every scene he's in.
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As is argued by Graham Schweig, a professor at Christopher Newport Univerity, its message was in some ways "lighter" than traditional Judaism or Christianity: it urged people to commune with a single god, Krishna, who offered a "playful and blissful" experience with little emphasis on judgement or punishment.
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Doctor Strange introduced the magical side of the MCU, and while Runaways is forced to present sorcery as advanced science because of Marvel Television's "no magic" rule, the existence of genuine magic in the MCU informs scenes like Nico (Lyrica Okano) trying to commune with her dead sister's spirit.
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But this year Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and the mayors of half a dozen major cities, each with their own lapel pin, gathered in the Austin, Texas, convention center to commune with these techies about one big area of common ground: Bringing urban transportation into the future.
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"The notion that generates such an anthology-memoir, the idea that poems must be filtered through a scrim of ordinary language and life in order for us to commune with them, in order that they be 'understood' in some definite way, is wrongheaded and, indeed, condescending," Simone White wrote.
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Stroll along the towpaths, overgrown with sycamore, ash and willow, then stop at Word on the Water, a bookshop on a canal boat, where you can warm your hands over the wood stove and commune with Star, an elderly beagle-collie who's spent her whole long life on boats.
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Exploring them usually means renting a car in the capital, Montevideo, and cruising northeast to discover peaceful hippie communities, chic fish restaurants by the sand dunes, a newly lively water-sports scene and off-the-grid villages where you can sleep in a hammock and commune with sea lions.
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" Another memorialization option offered by the institute is the Hereafter Life, which consultants describe as a "participatory virtual-reality installation in which we invite guests to step into an ever-expanding world where they can revisit the dead, commune with the living, and even plan for their very own afterlife.
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Accounts of his travels in search of literary origins—from the ruins of Troy to the Istanbul of Orhan Pamuk, from the jungles of southern Mexico in search of a Zapatista rebel called Subcomandante Marcos to the island of St Lucia to commune with Derek Walcott—provide local colour but rarely any piercing insights.
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Her novel is Manson Family adjacent, weaving a story about a circle of women who closely resemble the so-called Charlie's girls, all of whom are stealing for, sleeping with, and bowing to the whims and wills of an idol who wanders barefoot through the rundown commune with a guitar slung over his shoulder.
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Midshow, the singer Teyana Taylor emerged for a smooth, soothing "Never Would Have Made It," and then descended to commune with the dancers who, for most of the show, had been casually dispersed around the hills behind the performance, but who'd gathered at the foot of the stage for an intense session of flails and stomps.
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And that absence points to the essential weakness of a purely intellectualized pantheism: It invites its adherents to commune with a universe that offers suffering and misery in abundance, which means that it has a strong appeal to the privileged but a much weaker appeal to people who need not only sense of wonder from their spiritual lives but also, well, help.
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If you are in the Los Angeles area and you would like to commune with your fellow word nerds — with the possibility of winning Valuable Prizes — there is still time to sign up for Crosswords L. A. This tournament has a fabulous line up of all women constructors, including Zhouqin Burnikel, Suzy Gelfand, Lynn Lempel, Amy Lucido, Andrea Carla Michaels, Erin Rhode and Patti Varol.
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The central belief is that the spirits of loved ones are allowed to join the living on those days and commune with them, and the celebration is geared towards that idea: People leave toys and calaveras (the iconic skull — made from sugar — that inspires the makeup and look of the holiday) for children, and for adults they leave food, favorite possessions and alcohol at elaborate homemade altars (called ofrendas).
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The central belief is that the spirits of loved ones are allowed to join the living on those days and commune with them, and the celebration is geared towards that idea: People leave toys and calaveras (the iconic skull — made from sugar — that inspires the makeup and look of the holiday) for children, and for adults they leave food, favorite possessions and alcohol at elaborate homemade altars, called ofrendas.
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The central belief is that the spirits of loved ones are allowed to join the living on those days and commune with them, and the celebration is geared towards that idea: People leave toys and calaveras (the iconic skull — made from sugar — that inspires the makeup and look of the holiday) for children, and for adults they leave food, favorite possessions and alcohol at elaborate homemade altars, called ofrendas.
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In fact, every time you admire an aircraft carrier, eat a meatless sausage, sit under a sun lamp, wear a Burberry trench coat, or set your clock ahead for daylight saving time, you are reaching back to commune with World War I. The dawn of chemical weapons World War I's new weapons caused previously unseen and horrific kinds of injuries, and scientists raced to develop protections against them -- or to make even more lethal versions to use against the enemy.
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