Bonsai Willows of Ritual as Repetitive and Recursive Functions

Willow Bonsai

I have a post on Ritual considered as a bonsai willow; how we miniaturize the large in order to be able to see it from every angle. We use ritual to fix and prune the Holy into a an easily handled size, then we may put it in a box, or a series of boxes, and open them up once a week, or twice a year, put the contents on display, and then re-package them to wait in their limbo.
Having said that, it seems to me that intelligent beings are forever on the verge of an epidemic of creativity for good or for ill: new ways to help mankind versus new ways to destroy new arts versus new pornography, etc.

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/meaning-of-ritual.html

It is the latter tendency that leads us to imprison ourselves within dogmas (we shall not speak of civil laws here and now). We make our beliefs defined, consistent, coherent -- all of which intelligence very often is not! -- and we make it repetitive and predictable. It is machine-like and utterly predictable, and thereby allays our fears.

It should be defined, but not well-defined. It should be repetitive, but not recursive. If we look into the universe and it seem indifferent to us, we need to be educated on how to stand on our own two feet, rather than putting a cap on our fears by handing over our birthright of creative intelligence to prison guards holding new straight jackets for us.

We all draw, we all paint, we all dance, we all play; not all of us are professional artists of a certain type of conscious expression, but we all do it. So do we all confront the Holy, and the only coaches, managers, tutors, and mentors we have are the ones standing by with holy books and holding the keys of our spiritual cells!