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Vivek Neelakantan

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Balinese Traditional Healing

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 26, 2026 Vivek Neelakantan preprint

Balinese healing traditions are grounded in a cyclical worldview, where the process of illness, purification and restoration alternate between fullness and emptiness, harmony and imbalance, microcosm and macrocosm. Within this healing tradition, bodily disorders, healing rituals such as Melukat, and the cosmological order are interwoven, rendering the experience of disease, purification and...