Pagans, Do rituals have a transforming affect upon you?

Question

Pagans, Do rituals have a transforming affect upon you?

Answer 1

Only if done right... then they have a severe psychological effect, and hopefully a positive one.  

Answer 2

Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. It will depend on the ritual. I have been doing Wiccan ritual for many, many years and I have never experienced a ritual that was calming. I guess it's possible but I have never done that. The rituals that are most transforming for me are very high in energy, often to the point of exhaustion. However, I seldom simply celebrate. Usually, there is an element of magic involved in every ritual I do personally and everything my coven does.

Rituals that are often not transforming are public rituals where the raised energy is very unfocused or not well planned.  

Answer 3

Some have, some haven't. It really depends on who officiates and how connected they and I are to the source.

Answer 4

Ritual is somewhere in between psychodrama and church... It can have a HUGE transforming effect or affect you not at all, it's all in how you choose to see it and experience it.  

Answer 5

Transformative ones, yes.

Answer 6

Well I'm a pagan but I'm not sure I fully understand the question.

I think some rituals are uplifting and could be considered transforming.

But if you mean transforming in the sense of giving you power then no.

Answer 7

Sometimes.

I am assuming you mean internally. Because I can't shape shift or anything... o0

Answer 8

Yes, they can be spiritually powerful and moving sometimes and leave me  speechless and changed with mystic and spiritual communion with the gods.  Wise with new understandings and in better relationship to the divine.

Answer 9

Rituals have a calming, connecting effect on me.  I'm not sure what you mean by transforming.  For me, ritual is done to honor the Gods and the effect of it is a renewed and strengthened sense of connection with my Gods and with my place in the circle of life and with the others whom I share the ritual with.