Thank you for these invitations! The concept of a ritual feels so much more alive and grounded then a 'routine' or 'habit' or 'discipline'. Also, adding flow and the flexibility to adapt things based on place, time and circumstance makes it feel so much more accessible.
Thank you Jada. Framing ritual as a routine, habit or discipline is actually a modern psychological categorization also opening the door to ritual as pathological- the obssessiveness of certain protocols and gestures. This invitation rescues ritual from those psychocentric normopathic constructs, broadening it through other postures of collective and ecological entanglements. Retracing ritual as a sensing with and through, in tidal time, to the living process of body-place. Ritual as open multilogue.
"Instead of just rituals to ‘do,’ propose rituals to undo: undo haste, undo colonial habits, undo certainties." Yes. And. Undoing the pressure to perform rituals to achieve purity.
Yes! "Undoing the pressure to perform rituals to achieve purity." If ritual is place-in-flow, a knot/door where a multitude (humans, animals, plants, topography, geography, weather...) meet in space-time, a convergence of multiple dialogues in diverse tongues, then it can only be contaminated by life itself. Moving, morphing, responsive. Not pure, but a critter. A place-time where difference meets (echoing the potent "difference without separability" of Denise Ferreira da Silva).
its the way to give living meaning, I wrote a similar post
https://open.substack.com/pub/tararoka/p/making-the-unconscious-conscious?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
Love this, ritual as emergent and attuned and alive and natural…
Thank you for these invitations! The concept of a ritual feels so much more alive and grounded then a 'routine' or 'habit' or 'discipline'. Also, adding flow and the flexibility to adapt things based on place, time and circumstance makes it feel so much more accessible.
Thank you Jada. Framing ritual as a routine, habit or discipline is actually a modern psychological categorization also opening the door to ritual as pathological- the obssessiveness of certain protocols and gestures. This invitation rescues ritual from those psychocentric normopathic constructs, broadening it through other postures of collective and ecological entanglements. Retracing ritual as a sensing with and through, in tidal time, to the living process of body-place. Ritual as open multilogue.
Never thought of making a ritual to honour failure. I love this, thank you x
Thank you For reading and resonating 🫀
"Instead of just rituals to ‘do,’ propose rituals to undo: undo haste, undo colonial habits, undo certainties." Yes. And. Undoing the pressure to perform rituals to achieve purity.
Yes! "Undoing the pressure to perform rituals to achieve purity." If ritual is place-in-flow, a knot/door where a multitude (humans, animals, plants, topography, geography, weather...) meet in space-time, a convergence of multiple dialogues in diverse tongues, then it can only be contaminated by life itself. Moving, morphing, responsive. Not pure, but a critter. A place-time where difference meets (echoing the potent "difference without separability" of Denise Ferreira da Silva).