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i am interested in the various worldviews that get lumped under this category, but do not myself practice--mostly because i am not in the same place aesthetically as most of my comrades--by which i mean that while i might do practices in some contexts, i do not see things in the same way and see no real reason to change that. that and i dont do oaths. most of the ritual practices i know involve oaths, at one level of another.
mostly i understand this space as being about focus--of mind, of body, of energy (or whatever you call it)
it is interesting space--i kinda like how the signifiers particular to various religious traditions are seen in this space as signifiers--the question of belief becomes quite complex, given this point of departure.
i am quite interested in ritual space-sometimes when i am doing music, i'll intertwine it with ritual (as performance once in a while, as something less public more often--if you do performances in this way too often, it becomes a gimmick so far as the audience is concerned)--but i'll surf the ritual in my way rather than actually say the formulae. which requires that you launch with people whom you trust. and having such people around is indeed a luxury.
so sympathetic and working parallel areas.
but i do not myself identify as such.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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