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As a unitic we don't do burnt offerings to G!d... Or do we?
We have been doing burnt offerings of.sorts but like lent, we don't give up something for 40 days and take it back up again...we use that time as life affirming, we give up something we want to.change in our lives...if we give sugar or candy or sweets, it is to use those 40 days as the start to give it up permanently...
In our burning bowl ceremonies we right down things we want to let go of... Not offerings of fatted calves to G!d, but the negative thoughts we've had, the jealousies, holding of grudges, negative ways we want to give up... We write things on paper and all put them in a bowl to light.
In the burning man community we build temples ....from thousands, to tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand dollar temples.... And then the attendees leave pictures, memories, write in the walls, make gifts and leave them... And this becomes our burnt offering....to all who attend it is a moving experience, some experience it as secular, others in ways specific to their religion...some see it as letting go, others as releasing to the ethers, others as a burnt offering to spirit.
I've enjoyed the ritual of many a burming bowl and worked on four temples that have been burnt... My first on the Washington monument lawn...
https://journal.burningman.org/2015...rsis-burning-for-change-on-the-national-mall/
Below is the temple from last years 2016 burning man...
We have been doing burnt offerings of.sorts but like lent, we don't give up something for 40 days and take it back up again...we use that time as life affirming, we give up something we want to.change in our lives...if we give sugar or candy or sweets, it is to use those 40 days as the start to give it up permanently...
In our burning bowl ceremonies we right down things we want to let go of... Not offerings of fatted calves to G!d, but the negative thoughts we've had, the jealousies, holding of grudges, negative ways we want to give up... We write things on paper and all put them in a bowl to light.
In the burning man community we build temples ....from thousands, to tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand dollar temples.... And then the attendees leave pictures, memories, write in the walls, make gifts and leave them... And this becomes our burnt offering....to all who attend it is a moving experience, some experience it as secular, others in ways specific to their religion...some see it as letting go, others as releasing to the ethers, others as a burnt offering to spirit.
I've enjoyed the ritual of many a burming bowl and worked on four temples that have been burnt... My first on the Washington monument lawn...
https://journal.burningman.org/2015...rsis-burning-for-change-on-the-national-mall/
Below is the temple from last years 2016 burning man...
