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Transiency Barbara Raes
Art has the power to transcend time. Transcend time is transcend death.
“We are transients in the world… we read books, yes, but also we read the swaying pine boughs, the turtle swimming below the ice, the dream fragment brought back by smell of the eucalyptus leaves, the unused bits of code on stands of DNA, the wobble of the flying frisbee- and each has it's radiance to offer, a sense that there are surely secrets to be revealed of only the gates would freely open ” (Hyde, L, Tricksters Makes This World“)
Why new rituals for funerals? We are at this point in human history that the very existence of humanity is under threat
so spirituality is moving back from the “sky ” to the “land”
+ the older structures, habits, rituals don't work anymore.
so there's a huge need for invention of new rituals
1. Rites of passage in:
2. Celebrancy workshops and training:
Shamanic Healing training:
Magic School: Ceremonies are magic!
Creative writing/autobiographical writing:
http://www.levensvragen.nu/dienst/autobiografisch-schrijven/
Soulmidwife:
Art and funerals:
http://www.mémwart.be/mémwart.html
Celebrancy workshops and training:
http://www.greenfuse.co.uk http://www.deadgoodguides.com http://onespiritinterfaith.org http://www.professionalcelebrants.org.uk
3. How to name ourselves?
Soul midwife
Life celebrant
Priestess
4. Facing your own death
living your own funeral
planning your own funeral
http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk http://deathcafe.com
5. Meditations on death and the ancestors
6. The ritual before the ritual
7. The ritual after the ritual
8. Rituals in retrospective
9. Cocreation of rituals
10. The ritual in the ritual
ex.funeral of a child starts with a baby naming
ex. renewal of vows
11. The opposite/negative rituals
ex rituals for divorce
ex rituals for raped women
12. Designing for rituals
13. The dramaturgy of rituals
. Literature list
- Seidr, het Noorse pad, Linda Wormhoudt
- VADER (part 1, intro), Karl Ove Knausgard
- Pascal Pollier-Green, Ann Van de Velde, Chantal Pollier, Confronting Mortality with art and science
. Media Library