#### [[Ritual clothing thought of as regalia enhances the practitioners ability to enter trance-like states]] --- - Putting ones self into an alternate state of mind is part of the ritual. One needs to feel closer to the spiritual and divine to actively embrace it and open that expeirence up for others - Donning regalia, little rituals and phrases like sprinkling with blood from a pine need twig, drumming, chanting, these all serve to elevate the practitioners current state to a heightened one --- - Tags: - [[Heathenry]], [[Heathenism]], - Reference: - <https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Regalia> - Related: - [[Performative spirituality is not a hollow show rather it is a means of restoring our spiritual energy communal ties and anchor us to the present]]