Here's a fun ritual you might want to try sometime...

THE ERIS INVOCATION::

OCCASION

--When an Eristic Principle needs to occupy a position.

--Time and date should have significance for participants.

-- Any public location will do for the ritual.

OBJECTIVE

--Who am I to set limits for an undertaking such as this?

--If you can all agree to it, it can be so.

--Something based on personal gain or injury to others is to be avoided; the feedback from the effects of the situation is what can enlighten you, the performer of the rite. That should, in fact, be the primary goal. (Never trust anything that follows the word "should")

PROPS

--A small brown paper sack for each participant. (Or even better, you think of something surreal and unique to your experiment)

--Enough large brown paper sacks to make scrolls for each of the participants.

--(We like to use crayons)(cut & paste construction paper can be even more fun, but I digress)

PREPERATION

-- Use the small paper bags and fashion them into hats by rolling the top down. Decorate with symbols that 1) have personal significance (You can expect more intense results if the symbols are applied while in an altered state of consciousness), and 2) represent your objective for this ceremony.

--Take the large paper bags and cut flat sections out that can be rolled up into scrolls. Make 1 scroll for each participant.

--Each participant copies a section out of whatever text they want, so long as it applies to the ritual, onto hir scroll. There should be at least a full minute's worth of text when read aloud. (Ex. One is a segment from Finnegans Wake, one is a Dr Seuss story, one is a section out of Illuminatus or the Principia etc. The important thing is that each scroll has personal significance for the person who copies it, and that it is at least indirectly related to the goal of the invocation i.e. Creating synchronicity, ufo sightings, expansion of consciousness, etc.

--One scroll is the actual invocation of Eris. It is to be written cooperatively by all participants (We invoke Eris; Splendor of the void. We invoke Eris; erotic goddess of mayhem. Etc. etc. Its your invocation, you think it up!)

PERFORMANCE

-- Five participants sit forming a circle with one in the center.
--One of the outer five starts reading from hir scroll.
--When that person's finished everyone passes hir scroll to the person on the left. Then the person with the leading scroll and the person who started reading first, both read their scrolls out loud, and so on. (So one person reads, then two at once, then three at once and so on until everyone on the parameter is reading and passing the scrolls.)

-- This should be maintained for at least twenty minutes.

--Then the person in the center reads the invocation out loud.
--When the invocation is finished everybody stops reading.
--The whole process should (for this model) be repeated three times, with the invoker reading the invocation 1)quietly to their self the first time 2)more loudly to the people in the circle the second time 3)very loudly, to Eris, the Earth and everybody else in earshot the last time.
--The energy should build gradually from beginning to end with everybody reading manically during the final invocation.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

--The second most important aspect to this ritual is to have as many elements as possible be directly, symbolically linked to the inner psychology of the participants. (That sounded way over the top huh?) But your performance of the rite should be a kind of IRL manifestation of your group psyche, like a big tuning fork performance resonating in the minds of those who pass by

--The first most important aspect to any magical working is to achieve some degree of altered/trance state of consciousness. (This is why it's important to have objectives that aren't going to have negative consequences on you if you're in a suggestible state)

--I personally recommend banishing with laughter or dancing afterwards. Always do a banishing after any chaotic working, it's just good psychological hygiene.

--Be sure to recycle the bags - somebody someday will put their stuff in a bag made out of paper that was part of this ritual

--If each of the participants can maintain an attitude of meditation and expectancy throughout the ritual, surprising results can be achieved.