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The Mystery
* The Mystery of why there is anything at all, rather than nothing.
The following is a basic focusing ritual meditation.  It is designed to help you find the ecstatic state of mind that is condusive to performing a good ritual: to experience the sacred in everything.
Tools:
Hands and/or Eyes
1. Close your eyes.
2. Put the palms of your hands together as if in prayer and gently touch the backs of your thumbs to
    your nose and lips and take a deep breath.
3. Focus on your thumbs against your face.
4. When you are ready:
Take one deep, long breath in and think about the Mystery above: why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?

       Breath out and let it go.  Focus on the darkness behind your eyes.


Take another deep breath in and think about the Mystery again: why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?

       Breath out and let it go.  Free yourself from the wonder and immerse
       yourself in the nothing, the blackenss behind your eyes.

Take in one more deep, long breath and think once again on the Mystery.

       Breath out and let it go.  Fall into the Unknown that came before everything
       that exhists.  Stay there.  Focus on the emptiness surrounding you.

When you feel ready: Open your eyes and focus on the first thing that you see.  See beyond the thing that it is into the fact that within it lies the atoms that build the first Cells that became the first stirrings of Life on Earth.  Everything on Earth has this ancestory.
If you are visually or hearing impaired this ritual can be modified to close yourself off from your primary sense and then reopen yourself to it.   The purpose of the ritual is to cut yourself off from the world and focus on the Mystery and then to suddenly bring yourself back to awareness and into hyperawareness.
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