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From: Southern 'Bama
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posted October 05, 2005 10:31 AM         

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Why is ritual necessary?

If you use it, or some form of it, in your practices, why?

It seems to me that it should be unnecessary, that the energy there isn't something static that must be coaxed, but a part of us and we a part of it - no persuasion required.

Do you know what I mean?
(I ask that realizing that the above probably doesn't quite make sense, but it seems that the words aren't coming together just now.)

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Half-way answering my own question:

If anything, it seems that ritual is needed to convince us of that relationship.

What are your thoughts?

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From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
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posted October 05, 2005 10:39 AM         

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Hey Proxieme. You already figured it out. The thing with rituals is it helps some people focus their own perception. We are always creating our own realities by what we think and say and do, but it is hard for some people to percieve that this is so. Rituals help attune their brains and thoughts more than they actually help focus energy and force. You don't need them unless you think you do.

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posted October 05, 2005 10:43 AM         

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Hey FK - It's been awhile
How go things with you?

(If I don't answer after you post it's because I've decided that I've stolen enough time from the kiddo ~ she's plopped down in front of the TV watching "Sesame Street".)

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posted October 05, 2005 12:27 PM         

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Hi. I'm fine, thanks. I am back home after one of the wildest adventures of my life. It is taking me a while to get used to civilization again. (If you can call an isolated mountain town of 1,000 people civilization...which you would if you had been where I was.) Last year I wrote out my adventures here in Lindaland when I got home, but I'm not even sure where I could start with this year. It would be a novel. Thanks for including me on the Meg Fan e-mail list. I always check out the links. Such a cutie. How's 'Bama these days? Did you get much hurricane action?

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posted October 05, 2005 12:54 PM         

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We've gotten a little, mostly in the form of tropical-storm force winds and refugees.

Heh, re: the "Meg Fan E-Mail".
I really do that for the Grandparents, but I sometimes just "send to all".
No one's complained yet, so I haven't stopped

If you *do* get the inclination to write of this year's adventures, you'll have a willing and eager reader in me. You're one of my heroes (and I don't bestow that lightly).

Re: 'Bama: It's fine, if buggy (love-buggy).
This Saturday we're going to trek about 1 1/2 hours away up to Georgia's Kolomoki State Park for the Kolomoki Festival followed by an Astronomy program.
We don't get out much so that's a pretty big deal for us

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From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
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posted October 05, 2005 01:27 PM         

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Sounds like a fun trip. Have you been to Ruby Falls? I think it is on the way from where you are. Great for kids. There is also somewhere around there where you can see 7 states. I can't quite remember where it is, but in that SW corner of Georgia, I think.

I am seriously honoured to be on your hero list. I only wish you could have been with me for a while this summer. I know you, specifically, would have loved it. The isolated wilderness where no one has stepped for ten thousand years, the pristine rivers and astounding northern swamps...all traversed via quad and foot (with a tiny bit of horseback adventure). Everything is so different that far north, it is hard to describe. Even the trees are strange. I'm sure I will eventually write this adventure, but not for a while. It was very intense and personal. You find out about youself and your companions when you are a team searching for the Old Ones in the wild. Perhaps I will have to change the names to protect the Archaeologists. (You notice, no mention of the innocent.) People become their real selves after weeks without electricity, communications, or indoor facilities. A fascinating education in human relations. I will never forget it and I will always be thrilled that I had the opportunity to be there.

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posted October 05, 2005 01:32 PM         

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Fishkitten- You beet me too it !

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posted October 05, 2005 01:44 PM         

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Are you interested in Archaeology, Magus of Music?

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posted October 05, 2005 01:45 PM         

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Sorry...I'll bet that was about the ritual thing.

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