The rituals were to actually receive more of what was…
The rituals were to actually receive more of what was coming from creation and allowing it to stay within its flow ... Human beings forgot some very fundamental relationship to that natural reality and into existence as a separate reality ... existence became a search for self ... self interests ... self survival ... and a certain way parameters between what was the edge of the known reality and the mysteries that continue to be true ... And so different cultures had different edges of what we call reality ... And for the Western mind that intellectualized the world to the degree in which everything was named based on our experience with it ... created more of a forgetting about its purpose within the larger ecology through which memory continued to flow ... This intellectualization in which the mind pursued existence and not the experience of the mysteries is the result of the kind of civilization we're in and the harms that are caused by our forgetting ... Because thinking cannot create the reality that it's to be known what the ancients call the mysteries ... And it cannot think nature ... Nature has to be felt
