I’m loving all this new talk about ritual design, but I’m finding it hard to invent meaningful rituals in the absence of scarcity
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what are those rituals and ritual-like things?
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I just came back from a weekend with a collective that used meditative circles led by one woman with a bunch of ritualized aspects, and a performance night with lots of collective involvement. More hits than misses but hard to explain succinctly.
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is that specific to the bay area or just something that people on the new-agey spectrum tend to do?
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I think it's New Agey in general, but spreading more broadly across the Bay Area. I mention it because I'm fairly woo-averse and it didn't trigger my anti-woo filters at any point.
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Those rationality rituals tend to bring in a sense of the scarcity affecting portions of human society (with an EA flavor) & the importance of this moment in time, with the scope of human history and the question of: will we make the transition to post-scarcity, or collapse?
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The rationality community has some rituals but they seem conversational in nature—I think Jess was referring more to the meditation and ayahuasca retreat stereotypes!
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Also there's a chapter in
@HareeshWallis's Tantra Illuminated explaining how seemingly dualistic rituals are used to reinforce non-dualist concepts of reality, which may be relevant to the idea of post-scarcity ritual. -
Interesting! I noticed that's on your currently reading list — will you write up something about that afterwards?
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Hmm - I recently finished it. I wasn't planning to but it was pretty impactful for me so maybe that would be a good idea :)
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