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I have committed to creating one ritual or action per week from now for the duration of the semester. I begin the practice of ritual making from an inexperienced and inhibited place. Making rituals and talking about spirituality makes me uncomfortable, but this is also exciting. I feel clumsy and out of place and so somehow that means this is the right path. To begin this journey I am learning from Jane Batten and reading her book ''Power From Within: A feminist guide to ritual-making''. She gives step be step instructions for crafting your own rituals including how to plan and structure a ritual, examples for each stage of the ritual and tips around specific ceremonies. | I have committed to creating one ritual or action per week from now for the duration of the semester. I begin the practice of ritual making from an inexperienced and inhibited place. Making rituals and talking about spirituality makes me uncomfortable, but this is also exciting. I feel clumsy and out of place and so somehow that means this is the right path. To begin this journey I am learning from Jane Batten and reading her book ''Power From Within: A feminist guide to ritual-making''. She gives step be step instructions for crafting your own rituals including how to plan and structure a ritual, examples for each stage of the ritual and tips around specific ceremonies. | ||
Batten also touches on my thinking around ritual - the fears and the reasons to pursue a ritual practice. She talks about the general disapproval to terms like 'ritual', 'spirituality' and 'witch', the feeling that ritual is not real and is more a personal indulgence and the fear that ritual might actually unleash a power within us, all of which touch on the resistance I feel to inhabiting a more spiritual way of being. However she notes "it is no use working to change structures if we do not also change ourselves, a key point that resonates with my reasons for beginning this process. I also identified with her critique of white New Zealander's as "living in a spiritually bereft culture" calling for us to not appropriate the spirituality of the Maori people but to "address our own spiritual needs, evolving a sense of ritual that is relevant for ourselves, right here and now". This is the departure point for this project. | Batten also touches on my thinking around ritual - the fears and the reasons to pursue a ritual practice. She talks about the general disapproval to terms like 'ritual', 'spirituality' and 'witch', the feeling that ritual is not real and is more a personal indulgence and the fear that ritual might actually unleash a power within us, all of which touch on the resistance I feel to inhabiting a more spiritual way of being. However she notes "it is no use working to change structures if we do not also change ourselves, a key point that resonates with my reasons for beginning this process. I also identified with her critique of white New Zealander's as "living in a spiritually bereft culture" calling for us to not appropriate the spirituality of the Maori people but to "address our own spiritual needs, evolving a sense of ritual that is relevant for ourselves, right here and now". This is the departure point for this project. | ||
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'''Daphnia as living sensor''' | |||
Daphnia otherwise known as water fleas are used in water quality testing, to detect contamination with hazardous compounds. The DaphniaToximeter II is in use in water testing facilities around Germany. | |||
Daphnia are used a biological sensor, as a living sensor within a machine, however we could also monitor the health of naturally occuring Daphnia in bodies of water to gauge the health of a river or lake. | |||
I will develop a ritual to establish a connection with Daphnia here in the Ilm and perhaps to begin a practice of care, by checking in on them. | |||
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