There is a very
interesting relationship between participating in the ritual and experiencing
the ritual as a spectator. To be a part of the ritual is know it very deeply.
This is something that is essential for life. To truly participate in a ritual you believe that
what your doing is something essential. This is what you've decided to cling on
to. The thing that you believe to be important. I have to imagine that during a
drought, something that has a immediate effect on whether you are going to live
or die is going to feel very real and pure. A very significant and beautiful
thing to be doing. Life is so different though from what used to happen in
primitive time which makes this paper so difficult to write. When I'm writing
in the context of primitive man it seems I can't just jump to current times and
the analogy is still solid.
Anyway. To watch or
experience a ritual is to enjoy yourself in the hopes that something truly
incredible like a spiritual or carnal or true and beautiful or miraculous
happens. This is the hope of experiencing a ritual. It is very rare. But they
are putting the ingredients together and hoping that a greater force steppes
in. To participate is to come back to something more familiar. Something that
does not need to have a miraculous effect to be beautiful. It is already
beautiful because you have been there a million times before. You already know it is there and know how to
get there.
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