Re-enchanting the forest
Subtitle: meaningful ritual in a secular world
By: William Ayot
Publisher: Vala
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781908363145
Subjects: Ritual; Rites and ceremonies
Description: "Today, in the increasingly secular West, we hold neither adequate rites of passage for our youth, nor initiations for our growing number of elders. We have neither healing rituals for the loss of an unborn child, nor ways to mark the severing of a twenty-year relationship. [This book] is written for that part in us that yearns for living ritual. Drawing on his own experience, and on the ritual cultures of the indigenous world, William Ayot demonstrates the value and power of ritual to revive and 're-wire' our sometyimes confused and disconnected spirits."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Foreword / Mark Rylance; title: 1. A journey of a thousand miles; title: 2. Sometimes just to be here is a victory; title: 3. Places and spaces: the nuts and bolts of ritual; title: 4. Finding a tribe: community and ritual; title: 5. Who are you really, wanderer? Pilgrimage and rites of way; title: 6. Entering the mysteries: rites of passge for modern lives; title: 7. Wounded doves and broken vines: rituals of separation, parting and closure; title: 8. Coming back in: deep rituals of alignment and healing; title: 9. Rookeries, re-wiring and relationship; title: 10. The art of smudge: more than smoke and mirrors; title: 11. A home for the mystery: shrines and spirit houses; title: 12. Living with giants: archetypal energies and sacred technologies; title: 13. Up on the hill: bringing ritual home; title: 14. The bardic role: public ritual at work and in the community; title: 15. Re-enchanting the forest.