Rites & Rituals

3o December, 2005

I wonder if we need more ritualitzed, physical experiences of rites of passage, even (or especially) in this modern world. The trauma of a painful transformation can re-shape your worldview and if it helps you leave behind the old will that help build the new? Or do we lose too much in the process? Does the childlike self completely dis-integrate or can one re-eintegrate those vital necessary parts? The creativeity, sense of wonder, oae, unbridled appreciation and enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, daring, fearlessness we should want to keep but add to some rewsponsibility, caution, awareness, compassoin, long term perspective, those mature skills which guide adulthood.

Does dance, in distinct moments, allow tha tphysical transformation, like sports, sex, violence all release the built up tension of repressed needs un answered? We should let the child out more.

Narnia reminded me of those archetypes we forget about, how important it is to honor those heroes we are programmed to at least strive to become.