Why are rituals important in everyday life?
And it's as though something is keeping track of us too. If I do my ritual correctly, the good thing will happen. Who's monitoring if we're doing the ritual correct? You know, there's nobody looking. It was superstition as well. Something is monitoring whether I walk under a ladder and then the next day making sure something bad happens to me.
Again, the psychology is very unusual and yet it completely resonates and I do the same thing myself.
Yeah. I've never thought of that. The ladder thing assumes that there's someone monitoring, some greater being monitoring that we go under a ladder, but we would choose to believe in the kind of being that would torment us for walking under a ladder.
That's what religion is. I mean, I'm spiritual, I'm religious, whatever the hell that means. And I always think, is this just a bunch of superstitions we're doing? Like, at what point does prayer and religion go over to... Okay, here's how I, in my life... Michael's like, don't ask me that question.
Yeah, religion, let's get away from religion.
Okay, anyway, this is how I, in my own self, monitor when I'm keeling over towards weird compulsive superstition as opposed to ritual. Which is, for me, when I'm in ritual, it's because I am there to remember a reality that already exists. When I move to superstition, it's when I start believing I am creating a reality with the action. So it happens to me.
If I have a weird morning and I can't do my candle and I can't do my meeting and I can't do whatever, and then I'm like, well, I'm fucked. Or if anything goes bad that day, I'm like, well, what did I expect? I didn't do my candle.
And had I only done my candle, this would have been amazing.
Could we have like a temporary thing? Like, let's just hypothetically say, because I'm an optimizer, unfortunately, but let's just hypothetically say that you don't have time to do your candle or your meeting or whatever in the morning. Is there a replacement ritual that you can do that can be like, bam, we're still going to be good today?
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