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Conclusion

COMMUNITY:

RELATIONALITY IN

RELIGIOUSTHERAPEUTICS

The model of religious therapeutics presented in this study received its
basis from classical Yoga (branches 1–5), and was supplemented with
Åyurvedic medical therapeutics (6), and T ̄antric aesthetic therapeutics
(7). Now to complete the model, the domain of communityis added,
using Hindu and other world traditions, to produce the following set of
branches.

Branches of Religious Therapeutics

1. Metaphysical and epistemic foundations


2. Soteriology (theory of salvation or liberation)


3. Value theory and ethics


4. Physical practice


5. Cultivation of consciousness


6. Medicine and health-care


7. Aesthetics


8. Community

This study addressed the problem that the psychophysical person is
bound to struggle with problems concerning embodiment and health, and
took the position that the spiritual Self suffers no illness, thus religiousness

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