[ July 31, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] I hope all my friends in the Seattle Area can join me on July 31st for “Mystical Bali.”
By now millions of people have been introduced to the island of Bali through Liz Gilbert’s best-selling memoir “Eat, Pray, Love.” The upcoming movie with Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem will only increase people’s awareness of the island. [...]
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This is the first entry in a periodic series about the temples of the “Sacred Balinese Mandala.” Today we begin with the center, the heart, the most revered of all nine temples: Besakih.
Bali is often called the land of 10,000 temples, and while no one actually has quite an exact count, that’s as good a [...]
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Here’s a video slide-show of hundreds of beautiful shots from our recent “Sacred Mandala Pilgrimage” to Bali.
Continue reading Video from Spirit Quest Tours: The Spirit of Bali
The average Balinese will, between birth and adulthood, pass through a whole series of ceremonies that ritually mark, and celebrate, the various stages of human progress.
One of the most elaborate and important is the “matatah” or tooth filing ceremony. The optimal age range for tooth filing is generally considered to be between 6 and 18 years old – but even the elderly will have it done.
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