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War and Ritual Ecstasy

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The Sacred Nature of War and Ritual

War is a somatic enactment of dissolving the self into the greater whole, involving the sacrifice of the individual for the collective. The aim of ritual is to experience the melting of the self into the greater collective, which is also at the heart of why people go to war. War serves as a substitute for the sacred calendar, a time outside of time, a ritual time that fulfills the sanctified needs of human beings.

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