In March, they went together to a shrine devoted to the Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba in the state of Maharashtra.

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She has crafted a strange, fecund and poignant work that draws the reader into the spiritual heart of the steamy southern Indian state of Kerala, where she was raised as a child.

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The ritual ceremony of the Voladores ('flying men') is a fertility dance performed by several ethnic groups in Mexico and Central America, especially the Totonac people in the eastern state of Veracruz, to express respect for and harmony with the natural and spiritual worlds.

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But the problem for the new Archbishop is that on this sort of non-spiritual, fiduciary issue, his authority is rather less than that of the officers of the state.

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If society had not been confused, had not sent him signals that said, on the one hand, we support you, and, on the other hand, you cannot enter into a state of union with the person you love that is equal in legal and financial and spiritual rights as the union that men and women enter into, then I believe that Aaron would have been less confused.

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