ritual
the disappearance of ritual “as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present.” RS seems to emerge in the empty space of rituals, as it uses different techniques, from meditation, visualization, frequency matching to self-hypnosis, to reach this kind of transcendent experience. some compare it to daydreaming or astral projections.
from 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176 by Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or re
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
We still instinctively long for this kind of belonging, as our sacrifices to sports teams, fraternities, or churches demonstrate.
from Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty by Sarah Perry
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants. Reimagine, an organization that describes itself as “the world’s leading end-of-life events platform,” hosts paid gatherings and festivals related to death and healing. Casper ter Kuille and Angie T
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
sometimes the most destabilizing chaos isn’t on the world stage. Nor is it a public outrage or even a shared experience.
It’s found instead in the quiet chaos of our everyday lives: making a home, raising a family, putting a meal on the table. These mundane corners of the human experience are also where we find the loosest pockets of culture today:
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.
from A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures by Jasmine Bina
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
In a survey of 1,000 adults, it was found that 30% of people were eating dinner on the couch, and 17% of people were eating it in their bedrooms—two places where there is likely a screen and likely no conversation or interpersonal gathering. Remember that rooms have rules, and when we change the room, we create a vacuum of norms.
from A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures by Jasmine Bina
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
What interests him is the exhibition as ritual. "A crowd of people is not a crowd but rather a number of individuals gathered in a space who are, contra the experience of an opera or a theatrical performance, not subject to a collective control of attention....Attention is neither monopolized nor homogenized. The exhibition is a very democrati
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
- The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
from 13 Observations on Ritual by Ted Gioia
sari added 8mo ago
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.