Ritual is misunderstood and filled with pretense. Putting your mind to to something and formalising it with a few words is all you really need to do. Being connected to the earth in your bare feet might help too! Make your wish come true by acknowledging it as achieved, done, complete and go about your day like you are winning. Ecstasy comes from the meaning of "removal", "to make firm" "to place or cause to stand". Robed and rabid neo-pagans, trembling from the power of ritual, might be exaggeration from a misunderstanding of what ritual really is: a type of psychological decompression through a bit of symbolic psychodrama to clear the air to get you going about your day as so you stay on track. Perhaps performing rituals in your bare feet, while earthed, add to the decompression because of the health benefits of earthing!
Books referenced in this episode:
Ober, C. & Sinatra S.T. & Zucker, M. (2010). Earthing - The Most Important Health Discovery Ever! Basic Health Publications.
https://www.amazon.com/Earthing-Most-Important-Health-Discovery-dp-1591203740/dp/1591203740
Pizza, M. & Lewis, J.R., eds. Handbook of Contemporary Paganism. Brill.
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Contemporary-Paganism-Handbooks-Religion/dp/9004163735
Hubbard, L. Ron. (2007). Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health. Bridge Publications.
https://www.amazon.com/Dianetics-Modern-Science-Mental-English/dp/140314446X
Hill, Napoleon. (1928). The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons. Ralston University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Success-Sixteen-Lessons-Napoleon-Hill/dp/1617201782
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