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Ritual Path
There are basically two ritual paths, and you will find one or the other in any faith. An exoteric path and an esoteric. An ecstatic path or a contemplative, same thing. Though one is seen as holy and is approved, and the other tends to get demonized. There is even a story from the Bible…
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Ritual Statement
Some of the elements of language we don’t now recognize as ritual were actually former rituals. The handshake was a disarming process and bragging was a ritual both in Norse and Japanese cultures, but there is something deeper to ritual. Wedding ceremonies to birthday parties, if they have meaning it’s because they have a message.…
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Using Ritual
The little ritual, or psychodrama if you will, might seem to have no power or meaning. But as people have often experienced, if you dream about something aggravating at night, your next day may be very much affected. Much of dream and ritual are connected. Some tools are actually focuses to allow dream like imagery to…
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Ritual Connection
Obstacles cease to be obstacles and become simply a part of the terrain as we become more aware. You won’t bemoan the wall when you see the door, and often times especially in the case of sculptors they say they don’t know what they are going to shape until they do. Is there not an…
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World as Ritual
Do you see a connection between the modern ‘worship’ of materialism/money as the root of many people being in a state of dis-ease, as in it being a good example of ‘bad’ ritual? Yes, I do indeed. The American bill says in God we trust, but in fact the ritual of money isn’t about trust…
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Ritual Magic Experience
Anyone have experience with ritual magic? Care to share your experiences? Kawa ceremony. At heiau, at midnight to 3 am. Kawa is kava. Heiau are our temples. At those hours we follow a protocol so as to invite the spirits of aumakua to come. Chant, share kawa, silence, etc. and for some multiple presences are…
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Ritual Space
The Hawaiian people have what could perhaps be called family gathering spots. The spot is automatically a meeting place between them and the spirits. Many sites like that here, yes. Ancient to present time. That’s done with the set up of the space, and people also use symbols to define their space. Mandalas, Navajo sand paintings,…
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Blood Ritual
It is pretty gross that they want me to drink Jesus’ blood. The ritual drinking of Jesus’ blood was considered to allow in the sharing of Jesus spirit and thus by extension the holy spirit. The idea behind it was considered to be a way of inviting a form of sacred possession, and ritual cannibalism and…
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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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Atavistic Ritual
Atavistic ritual all relies on triggering the mirroring nervous system in one way or another, through ceremonial dance, meditation, even costume. The purpose being to create a link with and even a sort of identification with another species. This is the oldest form of ritual on the entire planet. Is the virtual world of Second…
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Ritual Awakening
In the mysteries, the officiating member or psychopomp often “costumes” themselves as an archetypal figure. They dress their presence in the form of the spirit that brings their society together even though it isn’t their singular, individual identity as a person. This is why you hear of “black masses” always being attended by a mysterious…
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Design Your Personal Ritual
How do I activate the third eye to use gold magick? How do you activate the third eye or how do you use gold magick? They are not necessarily the same thing. First, how do you use gold magick? Gold magick is primarily ritual magick. Originally, the rites of gold magick were solar veneration rites,…