With an alarming escalating frequency families are being devastatingly torn apart by the power struggle of conflicting ideas and intentions surrounding culture, politics, race relations, education, child rearing, economics, and other concerns critical to the family structure.
Are some relationships torn apart because of social, spiritual, religious, racial, and cultural viewpoints that are forced to coexist in the same place at the same time? Is the idea of cultural homogeny within a household or long-term relationship based on a short sighted utopian flight of the imagination?
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"Shrine and Altar" is a journey into the base elements that are used to establish a sacred space of mindful meditation, spiritual awakening, and divine communion with the guardian forces of the cosmos. In this work the reader will be given tools in the form of knowledge that they can use as the building blocks for their spiritual work. A sacred space is a focused portal and spiritual gateway to worlds beyond our own. In this life of five sensory perception physical tools are often utilized in order to align all of our faculties to one intention. The erecting of a sacred space accomplishes...