This was originally published almost four years ago. Does anyone have relevant experiences using this technique or techniques like it?
In general, this article is about how to integrate the crisis-of-faith minisequence into a ritual. Has anyone performed a ritual similar to that described in the minisequence?
One might think that if this exercise exists, but is never used...
you might as well admit that there was no point in having the room, since you didn't have the ability it stood for.
Today's post, The Ritual was originally published on 11 October 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Depiction of crisis of faith in Beisutsukai world.
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
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