Greetings,

Have you in your experience or your reading ever heard of rituals in the afterlife?

When retrieving or visiting the afterlife, I've never seen souls in a church. And although I haven't had to visit a realm of 'hellishness,'
I've never heard any reports from those who have that any satanic rituals were being performed-- 'hells' were more just chaos.

Why is this so (or am I wrong?)

Bets

Hi Lucy,

Yes, to me a parade is a ritual.  Thanks. 
Do you recall which RAM book that was in?

Bets

Bets

I looked at an old book that is on-line looking for a reference to church in afterlife.

This book is written in the language of its age...obviously! but it is quaint to me, sort of endearing too. This is how someone would have written when the kids in The Magician's Nephew were kids! I do go off on tangents!

Anyway, here's a page that mentions church. OK . This is a Christian afterlife. You get what you put into it. There may be more relevant pages in this book but I haven't read it in a while so I am not sure.

http://www.earthlypursuits.com/LtrLDMan/DMXLVIII.htm

(ps Bets this page has a reference to hypnagogic!
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/LtrLDMan/DMX.htm
the word has been around a while I guess!)

(pps: there was a second book, complete with a picture of Judge Hatch
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/WLLDM/WLLDMan.htm
not that that makes it more valid, just more interesting.)

I'm not sure about satanic rituals in specific, but rituals as such would be even more common and powerful in the afterlife below Focus 27 as they're in the physical. We might even take this as a definition for Focus27 that rituals there would be less common and rigid, simply because the main characteristic of rituals, their unquestioned repetition, is a main reason to keep people away from reaching Focus 27.
  Rituals are a direct expression of strengthening dubious beliefs. They keep one from thinking in diiferent ways, as they have to be performed always in the same way- they are the most conservative thing you could ever imagine.
  Additionally, when we think of the lesser density and therefore the increased sensibility to thoughts in nonphysical realms as opposed to the physical, rituals are even more effective. Thoughts are things. In a broader sense, rituals are the main reason for retrieval candidates to remain stuck in their private environments, as rituals are perpetueing thought loops. Rituals, in a more narrow sense, for some appear to be a necessary means to remain focused, to give support against a sea of fears and distractions, with the same result of silly repeating patterns.

  I though add that passing over for most people probably is a quite effective ritual killer. Think of the life review, the light of love and such. Most rituals will melt away from facing this.

Spooky

P.S. There are actions called "rituals" which are invented ad-hoc to give power to a specific affirmation or so. These are of a different nature, as long they're an offspring of lively intelligence and don't have become itself a necessary, addictive part of life.