Table of Contents
RITUAL OF WILD
“And perhaps that’s the most fitting way to begin a study of ritual: not by defining it, but by letting it reshape the one who seeks it.”
Volume I
The Search
Part I
The Living Journal
Entries
Dreams
Motherhood
Questions
Part II
The Study
Psychology
Anthropology
Neuroscience
Spiritual Traditions
Nature
Symbols
Part III
Experiments
Family Rituals
Daily Practices
Photography as Ritual
Seasons
Grief
Celebration
Part IV
Emerging Philosophy
What is Ritual?
What is Wild?
What is Transformation?
What does it mean to remember?
Notice that none of this requires you to know where you’re going. It simply requires you to stay curious.
Why these symbols? Why now? What relationship am I building with them? Hearts and circles.
What are the practices that help human beings remember how to belong… to themselves, to one another, to the Earth, and to the mystery of being alive?
Questions like:
- What makes something a ritual instead of a habit?
- Why did I instinctively go to the river after losing Stella?
- What did that place know that I didn’t?
- Why do humans need witnesses?
- Why does beauty seem to make grief more bearable?
- Can photographs become rituals?
- Why do children naturally create ritual through repetition?
- What is the difference between control and ceremony?
- What have modern women lost that ritual once offered?
- What is “wild” asking me to remember?
