Bali – Rites of Passage
One of the extraordinary parts of my trip to Bali was getting to act a participant-observer in several rites of passage. During the 3-4 weeks that I stayed with the family who owned the Anoman Weaving Factory, I participated in funeral preparations and a cremation, as well as the coming-of-age ceremony for a five year old girl. It felt to me like life was filled with religious preparations and significance … one of the many things that marked life in Bali as different in the...
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As part of my Masters’ degree program in Whole Systems Design at Antioch University Seattle, I traveled to Bali Indonesia in 1993. My stated purpose was to visit a culture where religion and art were both integral to daily life. I was also very interested in experiencing a Hindu culture, as my undergraduate degree in Religion and Biblical Literature was focused on the Hindu religious literature of India. My trip to mainland China in 1991 wonderful but it was a rushed experience in a large group, and it was also highly controlled by our many guides, as we were some of the earliest...
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