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About the Book\xa0

\u201cAfter half a decade of research and hundreds of conversations with people around the country, I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works, and that the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive.\u201d\u2013Casper ter Kuile

What do Soul Cycle, gratitude journals, and tech breaks have in common? For ter Kuile they offer rituals that create the foundation for our modern spiritual lives.\xa0

We are in crisis today. Our modern technological society has left too many of us\u2014no matter our ages\u2014feeling isolated and bereft of purpose. Previous frameworks for building community and finding meaning no longer support us. Yet ter Kuile reveals a hopeful new message: we might not be religious, but that doesn\u2019t mean we are any less spiritual.\xa0\xa0

The Power of Ritual reminds us that what we already do every day matters\u2014and has the potential to become a powerful experience of reflection, sanctuary, and meaning.

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About the Author

Casper ter Kuile is helping to build a world of joyful belonging.

He's the author of The Power of Ritual (2020), and co-host of the award-winning podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. Casper is a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard University.

With his team at Sacred Design Lab, he co-authored the seminal paper How We Gather (2015) and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Atlantic Magazine, and Washington Post.

He and his husband Sean Lair live in Brooklyn, NY.

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BIG IDEA 1 (5:34) \u2013 Ritual is for everyone.

We all may already be partly doing ritual, but that doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re already getting the benefits from it because ritual needs to be intentional and repeated. When we cook, eat, read, exercise or travel, all of these things can be turned into meaningful rituals.

Ritual is about the gaps you\u2019d like to fill or identifying the connection or habits you lack. In the book, it says that rituals are for everyone because you don\u2019t have to believe in anything to enjoy and create a ritual. It is about connection which is a necessity, not a luxury.

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BIG IDEA 2 (7:53) \u2013 The four types of ritual.

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1. \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Connection with self \u2013 this can include sacred reading which is generally picking a fiction book and reading it and analysing it as if it is a sacred text. The other idea in this book is the Sabbath, or taking a weekly period of time to connect with yourself, preferably offline.
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2. \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Connection with others \u2013 there are two ideas in this ritual \u2013 eating with others and working out with others - and using these mediums to better connect with other people.
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3. \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Connection with nature \u2013 pilgrimage, celebrating seasons and reimagining us and our relationship with the natural world are three ideas you can use to connect with nature.
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4. \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Connection with the transcendent \u2013 this is really the idea of rethinking the practice of prayer. This doesn\u2019t need to be a prayer to someone, but a conversation with yourself. Similar to journaling or doing your gratitude out loud.
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BIG IDEA 3 (13:52) \u2013 The permission to be creative.

Convention is the death of tradition. It is where old ways of being have lost their relevance and stayed too strict to their methods. Tradition, however, shows us how to live and it allows for tweaks and changes along the way.

The good thing about being creative with rituals is that it gives us permission to take things from different places and make them our own to better connect. It could be a religious activity you want to unbundle from it\u2019s religious context, or an old routine from your childhood. The rituals you have growing up with your family that you want to re-enact or restate. Change it to what you need and make it happen to create the meaning and connection.

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