I think centuries surrounded by scientific dogma have dulled our senses to some of the metaphysical stimulants humans once knew. A lot of actions that were once ceremonial have been reduced to something purely procedural. The motions of our everyday lives, more often than not, seem to work smoothly without the parallel action or intention that once connected it, and us, to something metaphysical.

It seems that in ancestral life many actions had parallel visibible, and supernatural, components and consequences. Even the most practical, were simultaneously ritualistic. For the longest time we relied on what we knew were rituals to discover the world and our part in it. It was only in recent history that we discontinued alchemy as a partner of the sciences.

We could be bitter at the loss at a chance to have encountered all that we know and do with our second intellect. A classless one, more physical and less academic. But I think there are so many odd motions in a typical life. Activities that seem insignificant, but that we will do in our lives far beyond seeming redundancy to, what may seem to be practical progress in our lives.

There are some activities, we connect so deeply to, that we hardly wonder if they have a practical component at all. And as we get a feel for these moments that are undeniably ceremonial; we might begin to look for or create ritualistic components, for the less obvious, or more practical things in life.