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Imbibing of the spirits
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Creating rituals is about giving freedom to our creative spirit to create. Most of us have not felt that free expression since childhood before our mind entered the picture judging what we do. Or, we put our creative spirit in a cage of our own making thinking we were protecting it because of the pain we experienced or how our free expression was somehow thwarted. For most of us, having our creative spirit free and fully active in our being can, and will be, experienced as intoxicating. We may appear to ourselves and others as if we are intoxicated in some way. For many the freedom of our creative spirit is simply overwhelming such that all they can utter is AAh.@ Some may feel they are becoming so full they will burst with life and energy like an over inflated balloon would burst. In these kinds of cases, some of us may experience fear at this "strange" energy and feelings arising within our being.
Yet, to become intoxicated with our own creative spirit is something we must allow ourselves to experience if we are going to become intimate with our creative spirit and what total freedom of our creative spirit feels like to know it. Only in knowing what freedom feels like do we know when we are placing our creative spirit in a cage of our own making. When we come to experience the fruits of a life fulfilled it can become intoxicating and we loose ourselves in life and energy within our being.
Appropriate to what we desire to create, consideration should be given to imbibing the spirits that can become intoxicating to symbolize the willingness to experience the intoxication of our own creative spirit in its freedom. In the same way our creative spirit is the fruit of our own being. Wine is the fruit of the vine and can be intoxicating. Drinking of wine in this context is symbolic of opening ourselves to whatever the fruit and flow of life opens within our being. For those that do not imbibe alcoholic beverages for whatever reason, grape juice can be used or the spirits of any other plant for that matter.
We can also go beyond the fruit of the view as in imbibing mead wine. Mead wine is made from honey. Because of how honey is made and from which it arises, it is symbolic of the fertilization and fruitfulness of nature. In this way mead can be seen as symbolic of the creation process to bring life into the world and continue the spirit of life. It needs to be remembered it is not so much as what is done as the symbolize of why we do what we do. The intent here is the willingness to take on the spirit of something other than our mind and ego, namely, the spirit of our own creative spirit.
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