ritual
- Most native societies around the world had three common characteristics: they had an intimate, conscious relationship with their place; they were stable "sustainable" cultures, often lasting for thousands of years; and they had a rich ceremonial and ritual life. They saw these three as intimately connected.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
Stuart Evans added 1y 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago
- Ritualization is a potent stabilizing agent, a simple salve for a stressful time if only we are mindful of how we use its powers.
from The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
Mary Martin added 9mo 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 4mo ago
- The relationship at the heart of ritual is the relationship between life and death, mediated by elemental forces. The kinds of rituals that fall out of that might be a monthly day of silence, perhaps periodic fasting, perhaps singing around the fire. All such things need to be done as symbolic testimony to the joy and sorrow of being human, no... See more
from Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism by Substack
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Ritual provides us with a tool for learning to think logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- when you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that ... See more
from Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It by Alexander Beiner
sari added 1y ago