We put them away in these places even though they have committed no crimes.
The War Cry

We put them away in these places even though they have committed no crimes.
There are five gyres in the world's oceans. What's a gyre, you might ask. I thought the same thing when I first came across the concept.
In shaded corners of sultry groves across Kerala, you can find stone deities coated in turmeric nestled at the foot of a tree. These shrines mark a sacred space known as the sarpa kavu or snake forests.
This question is rather applicable to any time of history, but especially in our own time the question is as relevant as ever.
"Every single culture identifies with spirit animals at some level. And I think every indigenous culture that I’m aware of honours and respects the spirit animal world. But you can also work with them personally."
"Do not be afraid. Everyone before you has died. You cannot stay, anymore than a baby can stay forever in the womb..."
"The human mind likes tangibles. We understand what we can count or measure. So, we defined ‘development’ as an economic measure because we thought more money equals more happiness. And we couldn’t have been more wrong because economic development and happiness are driven by opposite forces – one is led by greed (more the merrier) and the other by low expectations versus reality (less is more)."
"I think people in Kyrgyzstan still haven’t faced that modernisation that other countries are going through. 60% of the population are still farmers and still follow the traditions that they came before. They’re following the three pre-existing traditions."