Fire

[wil]

Fire...do you use it in ceremony and how?

I know some light a candle as they focus to meditate.

Others light a candle prior to prayer or for a departed loved one.

Of.course there is the menorah, yule, and Kwanzaa candles.

In Unity we have an annual burning bowl service where folks either write down on slips of paper things they want to let go of, burn up, or release to the heavens.

I do that often sitting around a campfire...

I've built a number of temples at burns where we build a structure and folks write notes all over it for similar purposes, or bring in mementos or pictures of lived ones to be consumed by the flames.

Do you or your tradition use fire ceremony and how?

 

[TheLightWithin]

In Unity we have an annual burning bowl service where folks either write down on slips of paper things they want to let go of, burn up, or release to the heavens.

I remember those fondly.
Our sanctuary god SO CROWDED on New Year's Eve.
Funny it didn't cross my mind the other day.
I haven't gone to Unity in years. It wasn't the same without the minister who retired.

Fire...do you use it in ceremony and how?

Zoroastrians use fire rituals

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[JustGeorge]

Fire is a friend.

I tend to give it the respect of a living entity. It lives in my stove, my furnace... Keeps me well fed and warm.

I honor fire in entities that embody it. The Mahabharata has stories of Agni. He's said to live within us in the form of digestive 'fire', and there are certain ways to strengthen and weaken him. Gabija, the flame personified(Baltic Goddess), is a favorite, too.

We light diyas during Navaratri, one lit each of the 9 nights. The lighting of the lamp signifies that the deity is present with us, and reminds us to strive for the light, and Divine knowledge.

 

[georgeingraham]

I always like to keep a candle lit and close by during any spirituality quest reading.

 

[Craz]

Every evening , after sunset, I sit in a hot bath up to my neck and after a few minutes when all the body/bone stresses have disappeared, I am able to have a deeply satisfying mediation.
The bathroom is completely dark except for a small lit candle.

 

[wil]

Sitting around a fire watching the flames consume the wood, or rather the wood release its carbon as it dances from solid to light and heat into gas vapors....the flowing fingers memorize us and below we can imagine considering the bowels of hell glowing in the coals.

The repeated yet unique patterns of fire remind of sorta its opposite the water fall or babling brook, ever changing yet the same.

 

[rocala]

Strange, but I had never really thought about this, but yes it does play a role. I once attended a Pagan Samhain celebration. There was a huge bonfire. After an earlier session of very wild dancing, to go outside and sit staring at the flames while drummers kept up a background rhythm was an incredible experience, almost hypnotic. There was an equivalent to the "burning bowl" custom too.

I have meditated in many settings and I do find candles to be effective.

 

[Craz]

Every evening , after sunset, I sit in a hot bath up to my neck and after a few minutes when all the body/bone stresses have disappeared, I am able to have a deeply satisfying mediation.
The bathroom is completely dark except for a small lit candle.

I couldn't edit the above post(not sure why). It should have read meditation, although I often need to mediate between me, myself and I.

 

[wil]

I couldn't edit the above post(not sure why). It should have read meditation, although I often need to mediate between me, myself and I.

When in highschool they started a group to facilitate solving problems it was 'peer mediation" we were always adding a "t" to their signs and posters...as we believed you were exactly right.

 

[talib-al-kalim]

Fire or candles have no religious meaning in Islam. We are not supposed to use it as a part of spiritual practice, but we can use it wherever it is useful, for giving light or for heating also during prayer.

 

[A Freeman]

Shouldn't the fire be inside of each of us, as we are all Beings of Light that are only temporarily incarnated/incarcerated inside these human bodies?

 

[Thomas]

Lummy ... we use candles all over the place ...

 

[TheLightWithin]

Lummy ... we use candles all over the place ...

What does lummy mean in this context?
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[Thomas]

What does lummy mean in this context?

LOL!

It's British slang, used to express surprise, a contraction of "Lord love me!", itself a phrase that disappeared around the 19th century.

"Cor blimey!" is another, or "Gor blimey!" from the old English expression "Christ/God strike me blind" when taken completely by surprise or staggered by something seen or heard.

"Lord luvaduck!" or "Lord love a duck" is yet another ... although how ducks got into it I have no idea. Clearly another case of Catholic doctrine inventing stuff that's not in the Bible!

 

[wil]

"Lord luvaduck!" or "Lord love a duck" is yet another ... although how ducks got into it I have no idea. Clearly another case of Catholic doctrine inventing stuff that's not in the Bible!

Are there no ducks in the bible because the lord doesn't love them?

That last line doesn't suit you.