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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Replying to @tobyshorin
Social scarcity - I see Bay Area people using rituals and ritual-like things explicitly for social cohesion, because they're fighting Dunbar's number all the way to the utopian neo-tribe.
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Replying to @autotrnslucence @tobyshorin
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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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @autotrnslucence
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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Replying to @tobyshorin @SarahAMcManus
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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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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