Comments on: The Paradigm of Ritual http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76 My musings on society, reality and the occult Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: free spells http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76&cpage=1#comment-2001 free spells Tue, 18 May 2010 15:17:12 +0000 http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76#comment-2001 Did you heard what Bob Doyle said about that? Did you heard what Bob Doyle said about that?

]]> By: The Astral Pilgrim http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76&cpage=1#comment-55 The Astral Pilgrim Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:37:17 +0000 http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76#comment-55 Experimentation is paramount to understanding and potentially rethinking ritual. If a ritual becomes habit for a person that is fine, but if a ritual is habitually promoted to a person new to a faith then they have not gone through the "ritual development" that would lead to its natural formation into habitual. This I feel is what we are seeing now with almost whole generations of "new pagans" that are almost completely unable to think outside of the books they have learnt from. Experimentation is paramount to understanding and potentially rethinking ritual. If a ritual becomes habit for a person that is fine, but if a ritual is habitually promoted to a person new to a faith then they have not gone through the “ritual development” that would lead to its natural formation into habitual. This I feel is what we are seeing now with almost whole generations of “new pagans” that are almost completely unable to think outside of the books they have learnt from.

]]> By: Seán http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76&cpage=1#comment-53 Seán Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:46:01 +0000 http://astralpilgrim.co.uk/?p=76#comment-53 I rather like the term "we become what we perceive" in as much as we become what we perceive ourselves to be. I think the way forward here is the deliberate experimentation with ritual to see what works and why, or whether we're only using it out of comfortable habit (eg. Mobile phone = YUK! But why?). This would apply not only to, say, casting a circle but also to the more mundane habitual rituals (Which sock do you put on first? Why?). This makes us more conscious, or mindful as the Buddhists call it, and aware of not just ourselves but our interactions with the universe outside ourselves. It allows us to, as Thoreau put it, "live deliberately". It's not easy! Love, Seán I rather like the term “we become what we perceive” in as much as we become what we perceive ourselves to be.

I think the way forward here is the deliberate experimentation with ritual to see what works and why, or whether we’re only using it out of comfortable habit (eg. Mobile phone = YUK! But why?). This would apply not only to, say, casting a circle but also to the more mundane habitual rituals (Which sock do you put on first? Why?).

This makes us more conscious, or mindful as the Buddhists call it, and aware of not just ourselves but our interactions with the universe outside ourselves. It allows us to, as Thoreau put it, “live deliberately”.

It’s not easy!

Love,
Seán

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