Ritual is an imaginally-augmented serious play that affords the transformation of the self.
We lost the value of ritual
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
– Joseph Campbell
Notes
- definitions
- Cyclical sacred practice
- intentional space
- Like a sacred routine that has ineffable meaning beyond the objective aspects of the words/actions
- An activity that connects you to something deeper than your ego
- bringing conscious focus to something, opening sacred space to be in relationship on all realms
- ritual is the generator-function for meaning.
- questions
- What’s something that feels ripe and ready to heal/honor/praise/evoke/draw forth/awaken? What type of ritual might you craft?
- How is it related to habits?
- Is the ritual attempting to take you to something unfamiliar or is it attempting to ground you to the familiar
books
- The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han