Our experience as readers is very much like witnessing magic: we are presented a reality in which things happen free from the chains of cause and effect, in which things happen because they have a purpose.

the disappearance of ritual “as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present.” RS seems to emerge in the empty space of rituals, as it uses different techniques, from meditation, visualization, frequency matching to self-hypnosis, to reach this kind of transcendent experience. some compare it to daydreaming or astral projections.