Ritual technology - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious

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Lets take a closer look at these seven impressions, and explore what it means to build ritual technology. We’ll take a broad view of ritual that encompasses everything from sacred rites to making a morning cup of coffee. 1. Rituals are the feedback loops we construct to construct ourselves. Our impulses are fast and transient, but rituals are slow and recurrent. We change, our context changes, our rituals remain the same. Rituals are long-term memory in our self-system. They act as a kind of scaffold around which we can grow. We participate in rituals to bend the long arc of the self. 2. Rituals shape the medium of time. They structure time and give it narrative. [Ritual] may be characterized as the art of significant forms in time, as architecture of time. (Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1951. The Sabbath.) Rituals are to time what places are to space. They ground us and connect us to the world around us through the medium of time. (Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals.) Ancient cult

Seven thoughts on ritual: Rituals are the feedback loops we construct to construct ourselves. Rituals shape the medium of time. Rituals orient us. Rituals are protocols. Ritual is a form of play. Rituals take place in a world set apart. Rituals make meaning. Lets take a closer look at these seven impressions, and explore what it means to build ritual technology. We’ll take a broad view of ritual that encompasses everything from sacred rites to making a morning cup of coffee. 1. Rituals are the feedback loops we construct to construct ourselves. Our impulses are fast and transient,…

Ritual technology - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious

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