Ecstatic Dancing

Pulses through flesh, loud all-consuming music.
The primary tradition of the rave cults. Dancing together is transcendent. The erasure or blurring of the self, connecting with others, as a group organism moving to the beat. A nothingness that feels like everything. When people truly lose themselves to the music, they slip into a liminal space where they connect not only to the crowd around them, but all dancers of all time. Past, present and future all merge into one.
Catharsis in the crowd, a complete cohesive collaboration. Kinaesthetics
Others channel the crowd, stepping up on stage to serve as vessels for the energy.
Some sects use drugs to enhance the experience, or to ease themselves into the liminal space faster. Others are straight edge, meaning they avoid any intoxication.

Mystery Cults

The mystery cults want the raves to be secret and only for those in-the-know. They hide away in forgotten spaces. The invitations are often coded, requiring the participants to complete a trial before they can join the dance.

Viral

Central to virality is the belief in the empathogen, which infects people who reach transcendence in crowds with communal and complete love. The most fanatic followers of virality seek out other forms of contagion, usually by mixing fluids. They are in many ways the opposite end of the spectrum of the mystery cults, as they want to spread the ecstasy of dance and invite more people into the fold.

The First Beat

The liturgy of the First Beat, says that music was the first language. The first beat was the first heartbeat of civilization.

All-Culture

The All-Culture appropriate to accessorize, dressing themselves in a hodgepodge of religious and cultural imagery. While All-Cultures believe in a merging of all cultures and all religions, their framework for the totality of religion can be completely different from eachother. Many believe that all religions come from a singular wellspring, others are revelationists who believe that all cultures must join for all people to transcend to divinity, others still take a synchronistic approach. They try to channel the connection from the dancefloor into their appearance

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