We are all prisoners of what we belief. The proof is in the fruit, the end result, the person I become, the things I do, and how my life effect those around me. In this presentation I take a glimpse of what people believe and how it effect their live.

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2. Many people are prisoners of their
own beliefs. Beliefs that have
been shaped by traditions and
culture

3. Known as El Colacho in
Spain, the Baby-
Jumping Festival is a
popular event that takes
place in Castillo de
Murcia near Burgos,
every year since 1620
By having infants lay on
a blanket and adults
dressed as devils jump
over them, the babies
are supposed to be
cleansed of their sins.

7. What if you were born in poverty…
there is no sanitation facilities… but
worse it is culturally shameful for
women to be seen relieving
themselves…

10. Today 2.6 billion people, including
almost one billion children, live
without even basic
sanitation. Every 20 seconds, a
child dies as a result of poor
sanitation.

11. What if you were born into a
culture where beautifying yourself
meant…

12. Fulani mouth tattoo: Young peul girl in Mali tattooing
her mouth with needles and hennaa

13. These women are known as
the women with the neck
rings of the Shan State (or
Padaung women).
Many have suggested that
these women in Myanmar's
history were commonly sold
into slavery. To deter their
children from being sold,
some parents in the Shan
State (of Myanmar) started
placing coils around their
daughters' neck. By
deforming their necks slave
owners were less likely to
choose these girls as slaves.

15. Kenya - MasaiWoman

18. Ritual whipping of women of Hamar tribe Omo Valley Ethiopia
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ribe_Omo_Valley_Ethiopia.jpg

19. What if your spiritual guide looked
something like this?

22. Shona
Witchdoctor
Zimbabwe

24. What if the price for being spiritual
and close to god meant that you
should …

36. What if the highest goal of your
religion meant taking a once in a
lifetime pilgrimage to some holy
destination…

38. Initiation into our religion and way
of life means that our children
should undergo

42. The Yanaizu Hadaka
Mairi is held every
January 7th at Enzou
temple in Fukushima.
A large group of men
climb a thick rope
inside the temple to
try to reach the
ceiling. It is
competitive and the
first men to the top
will have the best luck
in the coming year.

43. What if you were not born in
privilege?

46. The most recent estimate released on October 14, 2009 by FAO,
says that 1.02 billion people are undernourished.

49. The world is crying…
for what we’ve got!

51. We are all seeking the same thing!

52. Beyond all the colors and cultures,
traditions and religions… we all
face the same man of sin within us.
Pride, selfishness, strive, hate,
uncontrolled anger, lust, jealousy &
envy, covetousness, inhibition,
inferiority, rebellion and none of all
these efforts has done anything to
control HIM/HER…