Ritual reimagined: beyond mere tradition, consider it as "resonance" with the infinite energy field
Honoring the Sacred as Frequency
Before formal belief systems, priesthoods, or mystery schools, there was:
- Breath.
- Rhythm.
- Presence.
While many rituals throughout history were held sacred—acts of alignment with the cosmos or the land—not all were rooted in resonance. Some were designed to harness power, exert control, or manipulate unseen forces.
This article invites us to return to the core frequency of ritual: which is not defined by performance or domination. It focuses on coherence. It is a focused moment(s) of coherent signal to and from the infinite energy field (which is powerful in itself, without any need for obvious levels of dramatic spectacle).
Begin in Resonance
Before you read further, try this:
Close your eyes for a moment and recall a time you felt deeply connected to something larger than yourself.
It doesn’t need to be religious or ceremonial. It could be the way morning light touched your face, or the hush of snowfall at night.
As you remember it, notice what happens in your body.
- Do you breathe more slowly or quickly?
- Does your chest feel lighter or heavier?
- Is there softening or tightness in your belly?
- A lengthening or contraction in your spine?
That is your tone (your signal) to the field shifting, which allows you to feel presence.
And this is the heart of ritual: a moment of resonance with something greater, where your unique energy signal with the field joins the symphony of the whole.
Ritual Before Hierarchy
Long before temples or texts, ritual lived in the rhythms of daily life. In prehistoric caves, ochre was smeared over the buried bones of loved ones. In Israel’s Tinshemet Cave—dated to 100,000 years ago—bodies were laid to rest with care and symbolism. In early Norse homes, offerings were made around the hearth, not at an altar.
These weren’t spectacles. Nor were they led by elites. Instead, they were gestures of presence—small acts imbued with reverence. Perhaps they were:
- Planting a seed.
- Lighting a flame.
- Vibrating a name.
Presence turned those acts into resonance with the endless energy field. The sacred was not a destination—it was a feeling, an energy field, and a shared vibration.
Ancient Sites: Rituals Beyond Burial
Ancient sites around the world, particularly megalithic structures like long barrows, have long been interpreted as burial mounds by consensus science. However, researchers like Maria Wheatley, a dowsing expert and author specializing in earth energies and sacred geometry, challenged this view. She dug into the research and the results surprised her. If the mounds were burial grounds, where were the bones? She went onsite to see for herself. Still no pile of skeletons.
Wheatley's work covers the Neolithic Britain (c. 4000–2500 BCE), when long barrows were constructed. She draws from archaeological evidence and a technique called dowsing (two metal rods are used to detect shifts in the earth’s frequencies)research, positing that many of these sites were primarily ritual centers—places for healing, spiritual initiation, and connection to earth energies—rather than tombs. This perspective invites reimagining our ancient ancestors not as mere grave-builders but as sophisticated ritualists attuned to cosmic and terrestrial forces. Her findings are fascinating.
Possible Rituals at These Sites
Wheatley argues that long barrows and similar structures were used for living rituals—rather than death rites or burial grounds. Rituals could have involved meditation, communal gatherings to access collective wisdom, or practices to align with earth and cosmic cycles. She notes that these mounds could have been temples where participants experienced visions or energetic alignments, rather than burial processions. She points to artifacts, specific structural anomalies, and the lack of bones as inconsistencies within consensus mound-theory. She continues to dig deeper into this area of ancient life.
Number of Sites Around the World and Parallels Between Them
- Global Count: In Britain alone, there are hundreds of long barrows. Worldwide, similar megalithic ritual sites number in the thousands: Europe is estimated to have 40,000 dolmens and chambered tombs (e.g., in France, Germany, Scandinavia); Asia (e.g., Korea's dolmens: current estimates have reached 30,000); and the Americas (e.g., Mayan and North American ritual mounds).
- Similarities: Many ancient sites, including mounds, share non-burial functions—e.g., acoustic properties for rituals (like Malta's Hypogeum) in alignment with ley lines (a form of connecting and aligning with the nexus of powerful earth energies). Correlations include fractal geometry in specific layouts and use as elevated frequencies at specific points for increased energy flow.
This archeological look into our species sparks curiosity about rituals as living traditions, urging us to explore our ancestors' spiritual ingenuity for modern inspiration. By viewing ancient sites as ritual centers for physical and spiritual healing via ley lines, aligning and coming into coherence with earth and cosmic energies, we can discover how we can use these power spots to repair and rejuvenate our physiology from the subatomic to material levels. Fire, as a tool, has been with us for a long time. Maybe ritual has been there too, but forgotten or misunderstood until now.
The Living Language of Ritual
Scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz, who has spent over four decades translating ancient Aramaic and Syriac, reminds us that these languages spoke from unity. Not us vs. them or heaven over earth. It’s foundation is wholeness—breath, body, and cosmos.
Take the opening word of the Lord’s Prayer:
Abwoon — often translated as “Our Father.”
Douglas-Klotz offers deeper renderings:
“Breathing Life of All,”
“Parent of the Cosmos,”
“Birther of Radiance.”
He isn’t alone in this area of exploration. George M. Lamsa, a native speaker of classical Syriac and one of the first to translate the ancient Peshitta into English, brought similar reverence to his work. Raised in a village where Aramaic was still spoken as a living tongue, Lamsa revealed that much of early scripture was written in a relational, poetic form—steeped in tone, rather than doctrine.
These languages held presence as their compass.Their approach was not to slice Reality into parts—they let it vibrate as a whole. This is the underlying fabric of creation that the unified field theory of quantum physics explains through mathematics and geometry.
When Ritual Became Centralized
As human societies grew, so did their structures. Rituals moved from homes to temples, and from personal resonance to public performance.
Communities found unity in shared rites, and some of that remains deeply beautiful. But over time, presence could begin to fade behind protocol. Meaning became encoded in rules and prescribed action. And access to the sacred sometimes became filtered through hierarchy—like gods, kings, and truth through titles conferring authority or esteem.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, fascination with the esoteric—through secret societies like Freemasonry, Theosophy, and even the work of Jack Parsons within early NASA—brought ritual into new forms, often veiled, and increasingly hierarchical.
Rituals were still encoding frequency. But what kind of frequency? Was it coherent, life-affirming, harmonic? Or performative, secretive, and severed from the field? How could we know for sure?
Even today, modern rituals—presidential inaugurations, military salutes, graduation robes—still encode resonance. They frame belonging and anchor identity. But if not grounded in presence, they may simply echo without harmonizing with the field. That was something that interested me.
Presence Is the Spirit of Truth
Presence is not an emotion. It’s not even stillness, exactly.
Presence is the tone of being fully here—it’s the signal your field emits when you are not performing, pretending, or posturing in any particular way
What’s important to realize is that when ritual loses presence, it becomes empty. But when ritual begins in presence, it becomes a portal…
Your Micro-Ritual
What is one small act that shifts you into coherency with the energy field in and around you, and allows for opening into a sense of steadiness and calm?
It could be:
- touching the earth with bare feet.
- saying a name you love with reverence.
- placing a hand on your heart, just to feel its beat.
Let it be yours. Let it be enough because the sacred doesn’t measure in grandeur—it listens for coherence.
Coming Next
Merging seen and unseen remains our focus. Join me next time for more essential, often overlooked, aspects of yourself and Reality you won’t want to miss.
Take time to linger within the frequencies and revelations of this post as long as you like.
See you in a few days,
P.S. In case you want to explore further into “Abwoon”:
https://abwoon.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AramaicPrayerDance.pdf
https://resources.soundstrue.com/transcript/the-aramaic-jesus/
https://ecospiritualityresources.com/2015/06/30/our-father-in-aramaic/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
P.S.S. For parents who want to introduce today’s subject to children or for those who would like to have a tool for homeschooling practice: This is a child-friendly exercise that’s playful, physical, and uses imagination so the concept becomes something children can feel rather than just hear about. It’s a word that vibrates with wholeness of the all-that-is — the “All Pervasive Reality” that Ancient Aramaic describes.
Ancient Aramaic is not spoken today but Jesus would have spoken it. Like most ancient languages, it does not use verbs and descriptive words related to separateness. It’s unitive in its essence, which made it a neutral, unifying, and fun language to explore for today’s activity.
“Abwoon Breath Activity”
Purpose: Help children feel how language, breath, and movement shift their inner tone (the field signal)—so the sacred becomes something deeply felt and dynamic, even if repeated repetitively over a period of time.
- Say the Word
Introduce the word Abwoon — “Breathing Life of All.” Invite them to whisper it slowly and feel what stirs in their body. - Move with Breath
On each inhale, raise arms gently. On the exhale, lower them like waves returning. Let them feel the rhythm. - Invent Their Sacred Sound
Ask: Let them create a tone, a name, and/or a sound that brings them peace. “What’s a word that you could make up that feels calm or strong to you?”
After the activity:
Ask them a few questions like:
- Where did you feel your word in your body?
- Did it change how your body felt?
- Did it feel Warm? Smooth? Bright? Tingly, Relaxing, or something else?
Through this activity, children sense that ritual, all language, and movement isn’t something to perform. It’s something they already know—through presence, through play, and most importantly through the signal they emit and receive constantly through the infinite energy field in and around them. We’ll dive into their frequency in the next post.
Until our next adventure, may you enjoy playing in the energy of Abwoon and the endless field of light, sound, and energy in and around you, your children, and all of creation.
With a heart full of optimism and joy for our future,
Lee