The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
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The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
From within the gravitational pull of Secular 3, the goal is to make room for transcendence not necessarily by re-enchanting the world but by re-personalizing it. Sharing in personhood forges a way for us to conceive of transcendence and divine action (without magic).
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All of us have ancestral memory of what it’s like to live connected, interdependent lives. We may be cut off or too far away from those traditions to claim them, but we can listen to our needs, our longings, and through ritual, rite, and practice build a way of being in the world that honors and makes tangible our connections to one another, to nat
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Vervaeke clip on Tim Ferris: The church, the temple, and the mosque used to be places where an “ecology of practices” had a home. It was less about socializing, or communicating, but communing. People would mutually conform to set of rituals and words that would transform themselves, enhancing religio, sacredness, and an awareness of the depths of
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