Vaniver comments on Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.

[Vaniver]

Using ritual to insert things deep into your psyche is something that I think is just bad.

Bad as in morally wrong, epistemically wrong, or instrumentally wrong?

[Said Achmiz]

Instrumentally wrong.

[Vaniver]

Thanks for clarifying.

Rereading your statement, the word “insert” jumps out at me. Would you endorse this modified statement?

Using ritual to preserve things deep in your psyche is something that I think is just bad.

Or would the badness depend on which things you’re preserving?