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22 September 2019 08:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonLike, the heir apparent seems like a very serious person of faith, but they've got the personality of a Church of England minister, the charisma of a wet paper towel, can't project their voice, and doesn't seem confident building alliances or friendships or even staying at the cafe any longer than necessary.
They've got a clear candidate for ritual leader - a novice, but one with serious performance skills, the sort of theatrical talent that can pull a room together in ritual without even trying. I know that's a controversial idea, but I'm fed up of attending pants rituals where the leader is a touch embarrassed and it's all last minute. at rhe cafe, a woman exclaimed as a joke "...you plan for ritual?!" And like, yeah that's the attitude right there. If you don't plan for ritual, what you've got is a collection of oddly dressed middle aged misfits in a field, laughing awkwardly and waiting for someone else to make something happen. Of course you plan for ritual, if you want it to come together. If you want it to involve and transform participants.
We did a handful of meditations throughout the day, everybody had a whack - and out of that group only one person was actually talented at leading them, because the act of *leading a meditation* is its own skill. Everyone was buzzed afterwards and said "oooh", so it wasn't just me.
And so on, you know? You break it down into skills and assign the jobs to the people with those skills and the time to share them.
They've got a clear candidate for ritual leader - a novice, but one with serious performance skills, the sort of theatrical talent that can pull a room together in ritual without even trying. I know that's a controversial idea, but I'm fed up of attending pants rituals where the leader is a touch embarrassed and it's all last minute. at rhe cafe, a woman exclaimed as a joke "...you plan for ritual?!" And like, yeah that's the attitude right there. If you don't plan for ritual, what you've got is a collection of oddly dressed middle aged misfits in a field, laughing awkwardly and waiting for someone else to make something happen. Of course you plan for ritual, if you want it to come together. If you want it to involve and transform participants.
We did a handful of meditations throughout the day, everybody had a whack - and out of that group only one person was actually talented at leading them, because the act of *leading a meditation* is its own skill. Everyone was buzzed afterwards and said "oooh", so it wasn't just me.
And so on, you know? You break it down into skills and assign the jobs to the people with those skills and the time to share them.
