The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Feeding
The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
What it is
The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
In practice
Put feeding on a schedule and count it. A construct fed by anxiety is being fed by the wrong thing.
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- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Kill switch The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct.
- Forgetting The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result.
- Egregore A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
- Gnosis A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit.
- Charter The written agreement that binds a group construct: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing.
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