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And when you watch bonobo play, you're seeing the very evolutionary roots of human laughter, dance and ritual.
Turns out to be just what I was looking for: a ritual that's less about dying and more about opening the door to whatever comes next.
We're losing a ritual.
We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
And I began my ritual.
I always begin with the pulse, then I examine the hands, then I look at the nail beds, then I slide my hand up to the epitrochlear node, and I was into my ritual.
And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down.
And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.
And they immediately said to me, "Well you are describing a classic ritual."
And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient-physician relationship.
I remember so many huge, hollowed out, haunted eyes staring up at me as I performed this ritual.
Neither of us could skip this ritual, which had nothing to do with detecting rales in the lung, or finding the gallop rhythm of heart failure.
No, this ritual was about the one message that physicians have needed to convey to their patients.
In some cases, religion drives many Africans to extraordinary length: to attack other human beings, to commit ritual killing, targeting those living with albinism, those with a humpback, and as I recently learned, those with a bald head.
So I think it tells us that we've designed this ritual to connect us to this new couple, connect us emotionally.
So in bringing back this childhood ritual, you need to go out and, in one chapter, take a picture of a flower and then tag it.
This excites me, because it's a recursive experience of a holiday card that gets the viewer to feel this repetitive ritual of all holiday cards.
In a sense, that project was all about ritual becoming empty gesture.
Imagine your normal, everyday commuter-newspaper-reading ritual.
He said, "For three years, my girlfriend and I, we've made it this Sunday morning ritual to visit the PostSecret blog together and read the secrets out loud.
The other male is pant-grunting to him, is being submissive to him and bowing for him, and that is the sort of ritual they need to go through many times a day in order to have a stable relationship.
And I'm at my first year-end review, which is a form of ritual torture for design students, where they make you take everything you made over the course of the year and lay it out on a table and stand next to it while a bunch of professors, most of whom you've never seen before, give you their unfiltered opinions of it.
Approaching my daughter's third birthday, my wife said, "Hey, why don't you take Sabina back to New York and make it a father-daughter trip, and continue the ritual?"
So this cultural complex surrounding death, the ritual enactment of the end of life, has made death the most visible and remarkable aspect of Toraja's landscape.
They are symbolically fed and cared for, and the family at this time will begin a number of ritual injunctions, which communicates to the wider community around them that one of their members is undergoing the transition from this life into the afterlife known as Puya.
But the sacrifice of buffalo and the ritual display of wealth also exhibits the status of the deceased, and, by extension, the deceased's family.
So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this place: its impact on life and the relationships of the living.
And so he took me through the initiation ritual for a Bamana priest.
This tips into the territory of mental illness when you do things like compulsively over-wash your hands or paws, or you develop a ritual that's so extreme that you can't sit down to a bowl of food unless you engage in that ritual.
From the Tana Toraja funeral ritual in Indonesia to an Easter ceremony in the north of Ethiopia.
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