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Rituals have been essential for the preservation of our lives and our culture.
They were there at the time of our birth and they will be there at our death.
They were there at the time of our birth and they will be there at our death.
This is an opportunity for us to reach wholeness as human beings.
For a moment, conventional time and space are put aside.
One enters what numerous tribes call ''dream time.''
As you go through the ritual, the experience allows you to become aware of non-conceptual elements of your being.
In today's world fear, vulnerability and misunderstandings are not unusual
consequences of this lack of ritual. Much of the alienation that has become
epidemic in our modern world has to do with the absence of meaningful rituals
in our lives.
consequences of this lack of ritual. Much of the alienation that has become
epidemic in our modern world has to do with the absence of meaningful rituals
in our lives.
Compulsions may be the way wounded souls survive the
absence of meaningful rituals, the equivalent of the
vanished individuals of their tribes. They have no
communities to return to, that is, the ground of ritual, and
the individual feels deprived of social meaning.
And what does a vanished person do?
One sees his or her life end with one's self. There is no transcendency nor
companionship. One does not experience solitude, but isolation and loneliness.
And in this aloneness, there is still a community life that keeps trying
to reach others, like the salmon trying to swim up the dams built on
the path to their original rivers. They are just exhausting their lives
there, not going anywhere.
For awhile, western psychologists, having seen the dark side of collective life -
like the nationalism that gave rise to totalitarian systems - emphasized the
''individual,'' autonomy, independence and self-reliance.
With time, we have seen devastating consequences.
Extremisms tend to be devastating to society. Individualism was not the
exception. What we have found is radical hedonism, the endless search for
personal gratification. Greed and a disregard for others and for nature.
companionship. One does not experience solitude, but isolation and loneliness.
And in this aloneness, there is still a community life that keeps trying
to reach others, like the salmon trying to swim up the dams built on
the path to their original rivers. They are just exhausting their lives
there, not going anywhere.
For awhile, western psychologists, having seen the dark side of collective life -
like the nationalism that gave rise to totalitarian systems - emphasized the
''individual,'' autonomy, independence and self-reliance.
With time, we have seen devastating consequences.
Extremisms tend to be devastating to society. Individualism was not the
exception. What we have found is radical hedonism, the endless search for
personal gratification. Greed and a disregard for others and for nature.
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(it gets even better - keep reading!)
(it gets even better - keep reading!)
Rituals will also be there along the way as we
go through the different stages of life.
Let us take a moment to reflect on the nature of rituals and the
role rituals have played for the survival of our people.
go through the different stages of life.
Let us take a moment to reflect on the nature of rituals and the
role rituals have played for the survival of our people.
A ritual is a way to do two very important things.
It creates a protected space where each participant can
drop from the head to the heart.
It helps to encourage each participant to bring his or her
deepest self out into the open.
There is protection in the ritual because the ritual has
a beginning and it has an end.
drop from the head to the heart.
It helps to encourage each participant to bring his or her
deepest self out into the open.
There is protection in the ritual because the ritual has
a beginning and it has an end.
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In the dream time there is no pretending.
This is no role-playing, there is no drama.
There is only the moment, which is a part of infinity.
In the ritual you become connected to, and
remember your rightful place within infinity.
This is no role-playing, there is no drama.
There is only the moment, which is a part of infinity.
In the ritual you become connected to, and
remember your rightful place within infinity.
In traditional healing, the ritual brings the participants
right to the moment, and into a non-ordinary world.
right to the moment, and into a non-ordinary world.
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