(06-24-2015, 07:41 PM)Tan.rar Wrote: I don't really see the point to ritual without emotional levels, personally. For me the purpose is a system of protection and creating a filter so as to not take on offers of infringement.
The ritual has lots of potential functions. If you know none of them, why bother doing it? I suppose you can just find your own function in it.
I think this is a challenge for people who aren't predispositioned towards mysticism. It's not about 'what it does' in a mechanical sense. Rituals are psychodramas in which you articulate the identity and personality to create changes in awareness. Changes in awareness result in development. The experience of the ritual is the effect itself.
I do the ritual to clear myself of unwanted influences that interact with me through my unconscious as to not be hindered unawarely. I do not quite see what emotion should be the driving force behind this protection, any emotion I could think of seems not to resonate with this ritual.
There's intent in that I am doing it, without will I would not. But how to add more intensity is hard to conceive for me.