Create a series of rituals and an initiation to access the intention for our life

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2007 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

Create a series of rituals and an initiation to access the intention for our life
Why create rituals?
Why an initiation?
Need for a witness
A error often made
Rituals to create
Topics to address

After, or in conjunction with, exploring and reviewing our life as described in the topic "The things we need to review and understand" to see where we have been diverted from fulfilling our purpose for incarnating, we need to consciously recreate our life to consciously live that intention. To do this we need to begin to get a feel for what creating a life feels like. The easiest way that has been found is to both consciously create or recreate our life and simultaneously move toward regaining the ability to routinely enter the most creative state of being to create what we desire is to create rituals, ceremonies, metatheaters and the like relative to the life have lived and desire to live.

Why create rituals?  (Top)

We come into this world with an intention for our life and a desire for certain types and kinds of physical experiences which fulfill that intention. Rather than being free to unfold and live that intention and have the associated experiences, we all have been programmed in one way or another to live the way our society desires us to live. Of course, there are many who rebel against society and what it desires and/or demands of us. However, rather than living the intention for their life, many of these rebellious individuals are simply living in reaction to a life which is being imposed on them. To live the intention for our life is not to rebel although what it requires us to do may be different than what society wants and to live the left hand path.

To access the intention for our life is to choose to become a conscious creator of our life. To become a conscious creator, we need to consciously create. Rituals, ceremonies, metatheater and the like are relatively safe ways to step into the role of becoming a conscious creator and exploring aspects of life. They allow us to exercise our creativity and make it manifest in a physical experience. Rituals, ceremonies and metatheater provide us the opportunity to create energized memories and/or reprogram the past from our enculturation to a set of beliefs that serve who and what we have come to understand ourselves to be and which better serve us.

In this regard, other than the initiation, the individual needs to create as much of the rituals identified below as possible. The rituals should provide the opportunity to exercise our unique creativity as opposed to the experiencing the creativity of another.

Why an initiation?  (Top)

Traditionally, an initiation is an act of initiating to admit to membership in an organization, fraternity, cult, etc, usually with special rites, instructions, and/or ceremony, and the imparting of secret knowledge. In many initiations, what is performed in unknown to the one being initiated. This is especially true when secret knowledge of any form is imparted. Other than imparting secret knowledge, one of the reasons for the initiate not knowing what will be done before is to strengthen the awareness that the individual is moving from a past, and breaking with the path, to move into a new role and new life. In many ways the initiation is symbolic of a rebirth into a new form and new order whatever that new form and new order may be.

Relative to the intention for our life, to know the intention for our life is to be aware of the feeling associated with the unfettered and free flow of our creative life energy or a mental understanding once we get the minimum set of experience for our mind to properly characterize that feeling. To access that knowing, there is the need to access a deep feeling. Because of the pain of life, the displeasures we face for whatever reason, and how we lost our ability to creatively play, most of us either raise the threshold on what we feel or we shut down aspects of our ability to feel. This ability to feel needs to be reopened and it is not a place our mind is normally willing to go.

Hence the need for some type and kind of initiation to do two things. One is to get the individual to step out of mind - that is out of how and what they think and who they have identified themselves to be - to be open to feeling. We cannot feel when our attention and awareness is focus in thinking. The other is to move the individual into the realm of feeling and opening themselves to feel for the intended purpose of discerning what they feel at each and every level of their being and to come to learn it is safe to feel. The ultimate goal in this combination is to gets the individual out of mind and into the freedom of their creative spirit to know what the free unfoldment of their creative spirit feels like at teach and every level of their being.

One question which does arise is, "Given the fact we each are unique and put our creative spirit in a cage of our own making, what does the initiatory portion look like? Although what is done does need to be unique to the individual, there are common elements that work quite successfully. It has been found the common elements of the initiation can be overlaid with whatever rituals listed below the individual creates. What is recommended to be address in the initiation is discussed in the topic, "The initiation to call forth our creative spirit to live the intention for our life."

You are reminded that the actions described in the rituals and the initiation should be done in front of someone to see that we are actually doing and performing what is called to do. The need for a witness is discussed in the topic, "Necessary starting conditions to access the intention for our life,

From a creativity perspective, the error most individual make relative to any initiation they undergo or any ritual they create is that they believe the initiation or ritual will achieve what they desire. In actually, the initiation and ritual only prepare the way for mind to step aside and allow Creation to determine what needs to be done as the creation process unfold. The initiation and ritual open the door of mind. We must then follow what our intuitive guidance and body wisdom lead us to do if we hope to meet our intention. In essence, our choice to engage in the initiation or ritual is mind playing the role of consciousness in the creative process to become the cause to create a flow of energy which then unfold into the desired experience.

Rituals, by their very nature, tend to be symbolic. Many rituals are done to represent something that is intangible. For example, a knight would kneel before a king to demonstrate he is the king’s servant and he is playing his will at the direction of the king. Similarly, the king would perform a ritual and ceremony making a man a knight and bestowing trust in the knight. After being knighted, the knight would dress differently than previously to demonstrate his new position.

The following represent the areas and a sequence in which we need to take action in our life that will help us to access the deep feeling which will provide the awareness as to the intention for our life. In doing all that is described here we may not have a conscious knowing of what we need to do in our life but we will feel it. We will begin to feel what we need to do. The only question is whether or not we will trust what we feel or rely on our mind to tell us what to do.

The following list the topics and associated files of areas that should be addressed in some type and kind of ritual, metatheater, ceremony and the like. What is actually done is your choice. The intent of each topic is briefly stated. The recommendation is that whatever is done moves you closer to returning to a state of creative play.

The sequence provided here is flexible but should followed more strictly followed than loosely. The reason for this is the topics build on each other. Many things access and discovered in the early actions will be quite useful in later actions. It does need to be noted each of these can be done separate or combined in one overall ritual. The only questions are "How much time does it take to do what you feel you need to do effectively address each topics" and "Do you need time to digest what occurs and is accessed in any one topic?"

Topics to address (Top)

Being Loved and Cared For: Open ourselves to what is already available to us.

Initial initiation: An initiation to allow us to step into the role of becoming a conscious creator

Establish the background: Set the composite intention to free the energy contained in the past to prepare ourselves for the sacrifice of creation to create the seed condition for a new way of living and experiencing reality.

Opening Petition statement. The opening petition statement reflects what we are seeking and desiring to create. It addresses what we intend the ritual to do. It is to open our being to our intention and what the ritual will provide and/or reveal to us.

Bringing Forth Light: This ritual is about bringing light of understanding and wisdom into our being relative to the creative endeavor.

The Calling: The calling is where we call specific entities in the seen or unseen world to attend the ritual through the oneness of Creation and our interconnectedness with all that exists.

Opening Invocation: The invocation is a specific request for certain types and kinds of assistance or actions on the part of the unseen.

Opening ourselves to feeling: Create a ritual or rituals to open ourselves to feeling to create the seed condition for what we desire to manifest and to create an energized memory to continually catalyze our creative endeavor.

Imbibing of the spirits: Create a ritual symbolizing our willingness to experience the intoxication of our own creative spirit in its freedom and to enter a state of wonderment and "ah" .

Request: The request ritual is where we ask for what we feel we lack.

Thanksgiving: We need to be thankful for what we experience if for no other reason than to honor the creative process, take responsibility for what we have created, and learning to accept what is.

Ritual for the four directions: A prayer to create a ritual to honor the creative process

Healing and facing the pain of the past: Based on the review and exploration of our life consideration should be given to constructing a ritual or rituals to address health and related experiences and issues.

Review of the Seven Chakra: Use the areas expressed in each of the seven chakras to review our life and health related issues and create appropriate rituals.

Healing prayer: Create a healing prayer incorporating our personal and concepts of healing and a corresponding ritual to catalyze our ability to heal.

Healing Petitions: Through an appropriate ritual, request particular types and kind of healing for our situation to simultaneously address our spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health.

Locations of Wounds and Pains: Anoint each of the locations of a wound or pain with the intent to awaken the body memories and release any energy bound in those memories.

Chakras Anointing: Create a ritual that appropriately addresses each of the chakra and what each chakra represents in our life.

Truth telling: Create a ritual and/or a metatheater which allows for a safe exploration and literal or symbolic expression of our truth whatever it may be.

Forgiveness: Create a ritual and/or metatheater which allows us to explore the concept of forgiveness and what we may need to literally or symbolically do to forgive and receive forgiveness for our past.

Restitution, penance, payment, punishment: Create a ritual and/or metatheater do make appropriate restitution and/or penance to assist clearing and removing emotional energy bound in both our mental and body memories and for our past actions.

Consult the oracles: In whatever way we are comfortable consult the oracles as to what is the major issues needing awareness for us to access sufficient creative ability and creative power to do what we desire and what we many need to do access or create that awareness.

Compile the issues: Create a ritual and/or metatheater that allows us literally or symbolically compile and address all the issues that have been identified. Acting on the composite of the compiled issues in some way helps to bring our awareness to the interconnectedness of all that is and that we are not separated and fragmented.

Releasing: Create a ritual and/or metatheater which identify those areas of life, past habits, actions, memories and the like which we wish to release to move toward true creative  freedom.

The calling forth our creative spirit initiation can be done before or after the emptying and death ritual. Whether the calling forth is done before or after the emptying and death ritual depends on our view. If we perceive calling forth our creative spirit causes a death of some type then it should be done first. If we perceive we must die first before our creative spirit can become free, then the death ritual should be done first. In reality they occur simultaneous and usually can be seen to occur in stages as if we were pealing the layers of an onion.

Additionally, the following four rituals can been seen and experienced as one overall process. 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. Or, we die, enter the underworld to be cleansed and our creative spirit is called forth to be reborn into a new life.

Calling forth our creative spirit initiation: Participate in a unique initiation which creates a safe and secure space and that calls forth our creative spirit to freely express itself in the way it needs to be expressed.

Death and entering the cave/grave: Every creative endeavor requires a sacrifice of some aspect of the existing Creation. 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.

Cleansing: There are two aspects to cleansing. One is we view the world we experience through the illusion of our mind. That illusion can be seen as a lens that is dirty that does not allow us to see and experience the truth of what is. As a lens, it must be cleaned inside and out to see clearly. Create a ritual and/or metatheater representing cleaning the inside and outside of the lens. The second aspect of cleansing is we need to clean out all that does not serve us and make room for that which does serve.

Rebirth: To recreate an aspect of our life we must be reborn. Having cleansed out all that does not serve, we open ourselves to be reborn. Creation a ritual or metatheater which allows us to be reborn into a new life.

Transition ritual and/or creation ritual: The transition or creation ritual is the ritual and/or metatheater we create which represents the transformation from our current life to our the new life we desire to live and what the new life looks like.. In many ways it is a symbolic prototype of the transition we think we will take and what our new life will be like. The ritual allows us to open ourselves to the needed changes which will occur.

Follow up: We have created a seed condition which will unfold in our life if it is nourished. We can expect to see change and have the need to further let go of things we find along the way that are still holding us back. The follow up rituals address the issues we find as we move further on our journey. Many of them may repeat what has been done above or be something completely new. But in any case, each journey will be different.

Related topics
Rituals
Metatheatic performance
Generic symbolism for action in rituals and metatheater

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