What makes a Ritual (what is called a Cultural Pattern by the American Anthropologist Dr. Clifford Geertz) is the ability to tell a particular type of story - one that explains ourselves to ourselves, and gives power and resonance to a collective vision.
It is thru ritual and narrative that we begin to learn who we are, and how we are called upon to behave. To know who we are is in large part to understand to which particular story we are attached.
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