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From jathilan, a popular trance ritual on the island of Java, to Umbanda in the north of Brazil.
And the Huli have this ritual: When they're teenagers, becoming a man, they have to shave their heads, and they spend the rest of their life shaving their heads every single day, and what they do with that hair, they make it into a creation, a creation that's a very personal creation.
Perhaps I have to work harder at finding a ritual which matters for me and going back into my past to see where I actually fit.
Flash forward: now I work at an amazing place in San Francisco called the Zen Hospice Project, where we have a little ritual that helps with this shift in perspective.
Sometimes, these graves contained practical or ritual objects, suggesting belief in an afterlife where the dead might need such tools.
They would blend right into the algae, which would also fluoresce red, but they've got great vision, and they go through this long mating ritual, and perhaps they're using it in that effect.
You know, I grew up with a very famous grandfather, and there was kind of a ritual in my home.
For the Romans, a Vestal's virginity signaled not only her castitas, or modest spirit and body, but also her ritual purity.
I wouldn't even call it restoration; it was a ritual, catharsis.
Both of them create great public experiences of shared ritual.
These simple daily activities became our sacred ritual, and we repeated them day after day as the cancer grew.
Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place.
We even now have a religious ritual, a posture, that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power.
In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible and that we are impotent, religious communities and religious ritual can remind us that for whatever amount of time we have here on this Earth, whatever gifts and blessings we were given, whatever resources we have, we can and we must use them to try to make the world a little bit more just and a little bit more loving.
Like going to temple or a mosque or a church, or any other religious institution, movie-going is, in many ways, a sacred ritual.
I think you just need to do a cleansing ritual."
In the mountainous regions of Tibet, they practice "sky burial," a ritual where the body is left to be consumed by vultures.
But we have to be able to create and practice this ritual without harming the environment, which is why we need new options.
And it is quite a ritual.
Over one year, the process of actively noticing and counting these types of actions became a ritual.
And he viewed proto-shamanism as a kind of original attempt, through ritual, to rekindle a connection that had been irrevocably lost.
And then you do the ritual dances that empower the crosses.
So, 500 years after Columbus, these ancient rhythms of landscape are played out in ritual.
If those of you who are here remember that I mentioned that they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood, but the training for the priesthood is extraordinary.
Those 2,000-year-old carvings make it clear that this was a place of high ritual significance.
We want to bring back the aspect of ritual that's been diluted over the past hundred years as cremation rates have risen and religious affiliation has declined.
They'll look at the way we talk about morality as being true to oneself, the way we talk about politics as a matter of individual rights, and they'll look at this wonderful new religious ritual we have created.
So really, this first ritual is saying: How did you get to this place?
And the second ritual is that you burn something that you've brought.
And then the third ritual: between all these fires are large piles of clothes.
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