The most common connotations connected to dead animals include change, progression, decisions, processing (or re-processing) and phases. A dead owl symbolizes immense hope for the future, so lend a hand of friendship and love to those around you who may lack the hope they need to get through. Owl people are extraordinary communicators, particularly when it comes to explaining great Mysteries in understandable ways. You have a quick mind, high standards, and a strong sense of honor.

First step, is knowing that there’s a lot of support out there with people who have stretch marks, and who will completely understand what you’re going through. Like many people, I was surprised to find that there were a lot more opinions, theories and myths than actual facts about stretch marks on the web. Medical sites explained that stretch marks came from genetics, growth spurts, rapid weight gain and weight loss, pregnancy, puberty, or even high levels of cortisone, yet there weren’t a lot of studies to prove these findings.

I could put my focus (and thereby my intentionality) on the physical aspects, but I wasn’t limited to that framing. I saw that the symptoms were there to get my attention and to encourage me to physically rest, so I could focus on the inner experience of it and communicate with it. We can understand the complex phenomenon of life with this parlance of scientific concept of complex numbers. We may have two axes or number lines for materialism (real numbers) and spiritualism (imaginary numbers). Imaginary part (spiritualism) does not follow the rules of real numbers (materialism) yet it is a part of the overall number system.

Krause identifies two key mechanisms describing why older individuals with less education may be at a greater risk for experiencing decreased well-being because of religious doubt. The first is that older individuals with fewer years of schooling may be unable to “reason their way through religious doubt,” and may thus resort to denying or repressing their doubt (p. 104). Out of the 326 studies investigating the association between R/S and well-being, 120 were found to have the highest methodological rigor (on a scale of 0-10, these studies had a “7” or higher). Ninety-eight (82%) of these rigorous studies reported positive relationships between R/S and well-being/happiness. One study reported a negative relationship, although at a trend level (Dalgalarrondo et al. 2008).

Future studies also ought to control for physiological variables, such as sensation awareness or the choice of an object. The qualitative findings demonstrated a variety of new themes articulated by participants in the intervention group, such as “quiet and calm,” “peaceful,” or “holy” (Goldstein, p. 1011). Eighty-nine percent of participants who were interviewed reported that the cultivation of sacred moments had led to a stronger awareness of what was sacred in life after the three-week intervention had ended. This study has been identified as a key study due to its focus on empirical clinical evidence (as well as qualitative interviews) that reveal the psychological importance 8 of spades cultivating sacred moments in daily life.

We witnessed the sky shift from pink to orange to purple and watched the desert dunes change color in the diminishing light. The moon was already up then