All rituals need at least temporary resolutions.
Those rituals need to stay where they are, and we need to learn to love them, because there is a serious point here.
Whether the road to ascertaining which rituals need performing runs via a traditional healer or not, only the restoration of compromised social relationships will create the possibility of dealing with diabetes properly and appropriately, which is to say for many attaining a 'cure'cure
But certain rituals needed to unfold first -- the rituals of both a church and a city.
The Bhutanese buy funeral insurance, so they can pay monks to conduct the proper rituals needed to guide a soul towards reincarnation.
They saw the Orient as peopled by exotic natives unconcerned with progress, ruled by ritual, in need of Christian enlightenment.
"When I start the ritual, I need to dress in Ji Gong's clothes and drink alcohol, because Ji Gong likes it".
While such confession might be an important ritual we need to move forward, there are systemic reasons why this secrecy happens and why it will keep happening.
For the ritual, you need to add two handfuls of course salt to a bowl of water.
