Make a drawing of a
human skull on lined paper.
Crude OK.
Tape it to the mirror
right where your head would be. Then,
while you change out the bandaid, avert
your eyes: use your peripheral vision
for the task itself.
For your main, steady gaze, keep your eyes on
the skull drawing
interposed between you
and mirror-you.
The energy of denial and superstition
freed up by this ritual (which I'm making up
right now for the first time: important, or
it wouldn't work) will attract any negative
karma or ambient bad feng shui and trap it
between the two lines of gaze (you and mirror
you) and suck it into the paper. When
you're all done (remember to actually change
the band-aid: important, or it wouldn't work),
burn the skull drawing! Or you could microwave
it. Sterilized.
Done correctly, this ritual would have an efficacy
equal to or better than the placebo effect OR
the power of prayer. Trust me, I'm a nonce ritualist
par excellence. I develop these all the time, and
never execute half the ones I develop! Sometimes
the need doesn't arise. Great ideas
go to waste all the time
On second thought,
don't microwave it. No studies
have been done confirming
the efficacy of microwaves
on denial and superstition
permeated paper. Performance
of a proper nonce ritual is no time
to go experimenting
Oh, potentially important.
DO NOT ATTEMPT unless
your peripheral vision eye-to-hand
coordination is B-
or better! THE IMPORTANT
THING is the bandaid
change itself!
All this woo woo stuff
is just to attract and trap
any supernatural or paranormal
forces that could complicate
the wound. You know.
If left uninterfered-with
