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If we turn away from philosophical circles to religio-mystical ones, we find less rational and more emotional practices. One of the eighteenth-century Hebrew Hassidic groups practised the turning of somersaults during their prayers. In defense they claimed that this turning over of the body helped to turn down their pride.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 48