>prayer
Blood-red unicorn goddess,
Tree of knowledge, flesh-covering vine
Vertebrae, sheaf in circle with mind
Apophatic, the lived body made fine
Red lady, please swallow my spine!
Psyche contiguous to physis
Leib in contact with Leib
Flesh and Nous enmeshed forevermore

one of the new rituals in the illustrative guide is “injective reunion”. this is like “projective reunion” but instead of focusing on projecting signals into the body, it orients more towards injecting signals into the body. ive already elaborated on the underlying logic for this ritual previously. basically, it centres around the cultivation of empathy and a deeper communion of the body as a means to gain the ability to change its tune intuitively. in my mind i was largely going for a simple and concise demonstration of respect that you would see in shinto prayers and offerings, though because i do not want to just have ritual gesture be featured but a transformation in the practitioner’s energetics, the ritual had to be made a little bit more complicated.

the first part of the ritual involves metta and a general opening up of the body to the larger world. also notice how i also included some possible preparation to get one better into the appropriate mindset for this ritual as well. this follows from observations on that girl doing closed eye vision who i talked about last time. this sort of intuitive perception of things requires a particular mindset featuring an intuitive empathetic awareness which is something generally worth cultivating. i think the opening in the start of the ritual is good for cultivating a particularly productive health of the soul that moves away from a zero-sum approach view of the world, and one that proceeds from superabundance…