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Ritual for Deconstructive Purpose
Dark Metaphysics has been about the dark side of metaphysics and magickal practice. I mean to explore all the things that people find spooky about what might be happening in the magickal word and among magicians. Today, we are talking about twisted ritual. It is its own form of ritual because it specifically involves practices designed…
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Ritual Dark Mirror
Perhaps a less controversial form of twisted ritual. The path of the Heyoka. In short, the clown shaman. The Heyoka was considered completely insane, but insanity was seen as the same as inspiration and they were not actually insane. The tribe just didn’t try to reason with them. They accepted their paradoxical behaviour, but the…
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Creating Memory With Ritual
What exactly does ritual “do” to the energy field? Ritual is an application of the observer effect, and creates a model of the intention to be observed in the world and by the world. So ritual creates a memory in the world. In the place it was done, in the people who participated in it,…
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Into The Problem
Ritual or not (I am not big on ritual myself), part of what often keeps us stuck in our problems is the struggle we have with them. On modern application of twisted ritual, the reason we often stay stuck in problems is because we fight the problem. An example of twisted ritual would be to…
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Apparent Enemy As Biggest Ally
In voodoo, when working with Legba, they often pray for the exact opposite thing they want. If they want to recover from an illness, they ask Legba to make them horribly sick. It causes the same force to surface. If they want to find love, they ask Legba to drive all love very far away,…
Category: Twisted Ritual
Practices designed to serve a deconstructive purpose. Every ritual undertaken casts a light out into the world. Every light casts a shadow. The practice is to perform rituals specifically to access these shadows and strengthen them. The reason we often stay stuck in problems is because we fight the problem.
An example of twisted ritual would be to take your coping mechanism and reverse it. People get stuck in ends and destroy means, thus wind up having no means to achieve their ends. Get so hung up on goals they ignore the process, and the process that gets you to any goal always seems either like a problem or like experience. Ritual takes you out of yourself and into the focus of the ritual, into the problem.
“If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.” Chinese Proverbs