ritual
the power of rituals
Sarah Drinkwater and
ritual
How we gather
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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
In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
How to Design (and Redesign) the Practices of Company Culture
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Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death, and Survival in the 21st Century
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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.
