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| Vagina Monologues | | Created by Eve Ensler to explore how women have been affected by sexual violence throughout the years. Stories she has been told and seen for herself bring light to the struggle women have in our culture and those around the world. As of 2005, Vagina Warriors have raised over thirty million dollars for women victims of abuse around the world. |
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| Van Morrison | | Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on August 31, 1945. Singer and songwriter whose music represented the hippie era. |
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| Veil | | The thin sheath separating the earthly plane from other dimensions |
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| Vicky Banks | | Author of Sharing His Secrets. An intimate account of the women who knew Jesus. |
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| Vietnam War | | The Vietnam War was a military conflict in present day Vietnam occurring from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The conflict was a successful effort by the North Vietnamese and the indigenous National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known as the Viet Cong) to impose on Vietnam a communist system, defeating the South Vietnamese Republic of Vietnam (RVN). The chief cause of the war was the failure of Vietnamese nationalists, in the form of the Viet Minh, to gain control of southern Vietnam both during and after their struggle for independence from France in the First Indochina War of 1946–54. The U.S., in particular, deployed large numbers of military personnel to South Vietnam between 1954 and 1973. U.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisers assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. President Kennedy increased America's troop number from 500 to 16,000. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965 and remained in South Vietnam until August 1972. The last American troops left the country on April 30, 1975. |
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| Vipassana | | Also known as "insight meditation," Vipassana is an ancient technique where one sits comfortably and impartially pays attention to whatever is arising, internally or externally, with no judgments, aversions, or desires. Vipassana is a way of self-transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that continuously interconnect and condition the life of the mind. It is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the common root of mind and body that dissolves mental impurity, resulting in a balanced mind full of love and compassion. |
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| Virgin Bracelet | | A woven bracelet one wears around their wrist that when broken requires a long night of good sweaty fun with the person who breaks it. |
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| Vision (v) | | To perceive through the visual senses or to intuit information in advance through extra sensory perception. In Gestalt grouping, how people perceive a well-organized pattern or whole, instead of many separate parts. |
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| Vision walk | | There are many different kinds of vision walks, breath walks and walking meditations. The purpose is to get one in touch with Spirit, to release ego attributes that may be holding one back from experiencing her true self. |
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| Vonnegut | | (November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, IN – April 11, 2007) he wrote stories that looked at the 20th century with humor and contemplation. From the destructiveness of war in Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) to a technological society which has been dehumanized in Cat's Cradle (1963). |
