Creating rituals

An emptying and death ritual

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2007 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

Every creative endeavor requires a sacrifice of some aspect of the existing Creation. The greater the creative endeavor, the greater the sacrifice and possible death we will need to face. The goal here is to create a ritual and/or metatheater which symbolically allows for the death and burial of that aspect of our being which must die and those things which must leave our life to make room for the new creation.

Any death is accompanied by what can be symbolized as entering the cave or going into the grave to enter into the underworld. It is to go into the unseen world were the origin of all form which emanates in the seen world resides. It is to return to the Source. When we make the sacrifice of creation, the existing form of energy is dissolved and it returns to as state of no-form or "no-thing-ness." The, from this state of state of no-form or "no-thing-ness" it flows into manifestation of our desired creation.

There is the need to break the ties to the past. A letting go all that we believe, think, know and have been. We need a thorough cleaning inside and out. We need to empty ourselves of all that does not serve us and what we need to do and become in life. We need to flush out, remove, and/or reprogram all that is not of our truth and allows us to fully expand and grow into the depth and breadth of our true creative ability and creative power.

To truly empty ourselves and clean ourselves inside and out, is a death. We die to all that we have been and die to all that we have thought and believe about ourselves and Creation. It is to die before we die. In doing so, there is great freedom. That freedom allows us to begin to understand what it means to become like the wind, entering a experience with no attachment and preconceived ideas and leaving with no attachments and judgments about what was experienced.

Much of what is done in all of the actions described in this document is about emptying ourselves. However, mind will hold on as long as possible and as tight as possible to our current identity. It is here the initiation will need to occur. Someone, in some way, will need to initiation us into the death of who and what we think we are and allow us to become empty. We, of course, can go willingly or fight the process creating unnecessary pain and suffering.

What needs to be clearly understood, the actual death we face to meet the intention we have set is not something another or ourselves can actually plan. Creation itself will arrange for the death. However, by properly constructing a ritual accompanied with an initiation, we can make the journey much easier and less painful.

In this regard, the emptying and death ritual has two parts. One part is what we create as a ritual that we feel allows us to die based on all that we have reviewed and learned in the rituals we have created. The second part is to have someone we trust, based on all that they know about us and have seen us do in the rituals and actions we have taken create a symbolic death for is.

What we create to symbolize death that allows us see death allows us to return to the essence out of which we came. What we choose is our choice. How we cleanse ourselves inside and out is also our choice. But in any case, we need to create some symbolic death and cleansing inside and out that pushes our mind outside of its limits and barriers as to how it has defined itself and who and what it thinks it is. The death, and inner and outer cleansing should be some form of a not doing exercises and must address all aspects of our being. There should be a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical symbolism to both the death and inner and outer cleansing. It is here the initiation is most useful. The initiation is beyond our control and we must trust the individual with whom we allow to initiate us enough to go along with whatever they propose. But not being in control, mind is forced to be outside the process no matter what it thinks and believes and the judgment it has about the process.

In performing this ritual, Creation will still determine the actual death and cleansing we must undergo. But, it has been observed, those who pushed the limits as to what they could do in the emptying and death ritual seem to have a much easier death and cleansing in life that those who stayed away from this ritual. What needs to be understood is to fulfill any intention there will be a sacrifice. Sacrifice is part of the creative process. The question is "Do we willing open ourselves to the sacrifice or do we struggle to hold onto the past and what we know causing the sacrifice to be painful?" The choice is ours.

These four rituals can been seen and experienced as one overall process. That is, one overall encompassing ritual and/or metatheater can be done which addresses all four. Our creative spirit is called forth and we die. In dying we enter the underworld and/or the unseen world where we are cleansed only to be reborn anew with a "clean slate" so to speak. Rebirth can be seen as coming out of the cave or the grave in which we entered at our death. The cleansing is what occurred in the cave.

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