A ritual freezes time and allows the body to have access to a wider gamut of responses. Ritual marks the field, interacts with gravity, holds desire in check and gets things ready. Second Hand Touch Human beings fully believe that objects touched by powerful people are endowed with power and can access power, cross empty space, transform lives and manipulate the initiated. It's the cultural equivalent of the chemicals that stream from axon to axon in the brain. Surprise A critical state, that moment of surprise, when all things are ready to be turned upside down.
Surprise is the transitory explosion of memory that creates new connections.
Surprise is the linkage of desire to uncertainty. Surprise is the coral reef under the water you float in. Surprise finds you in one world and leaves you in another. Because we want to physically share the same space with an artist, dancer, actor, musician whom we love. We want to breathe their molecules.