Is There a Psychological Effect?

Rituals have a psychological effect, no matter what the spiritual or metaphysical effects may be. Even if science has advanced over millennia, people are largely the same as you are now when you're hearing this. If someone from two thousand years ago was your roommate and you told them that crocks were cool, then they would understand the value of crocks. And i think that's chool ye, we'll get into it.