ritual

the power of rituals

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“I’m looking for a practice and a journey, not a quick hit.” - Seth Godin

Alara

Fermentation as Metaphor

Sandor Katz emergencemagazine.org

Keely Adler

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

Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Keely Adler

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:

Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures

Keely Adler

Insights from Byung-Chul Han: The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives In the past,... See more

sari

Ritual provides us with a tool for learning to think logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture.

Dolores LaChapelle • Ritual is Essential

Stuart Evans

Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death, and Survival in the 21st Century

patternsoftransformation.com

AAlara

The magic circle, a term I have borrowed directly from game studies, is the invisible perimeter between everyday life and an experience where different rules of engagement are at play. (Anthropologists call it the “ritual frame” and contemporary mystical practices call it the “container”.) The magic circle describes the limits of both the formal rules of an experience, and the informal norms that an experience allows for. It can literally feel like magic to be inside one thanks to the seemingly inexplicable shift in logic for how things happen and what is meaningful.

alex

Leonor: I think it is so deeply important to celebrate more than just weddings and babies which feel like they take up all the airspace and are obviously worth celebrating, but not the only things we should gather for. We should be celebrating everyone’s big life moments with BIG parties and/or registries. I want to celebrate your new job! And

Anne Helen Petersen • You Don't Need to Get Married or Have a Kid to Have a Party

Keely Adler