A three-stage practice for cultural and ecological repair, moving beyond rational discourse to embodied and symbolic knowledge.
Action: Establish a meaningful narrative to replace the shame-based cosmology of the "Ceramic Vessel" (sealed, sterile, separate).
The ritual begins by framing the human body not as a finite, fragile container but as a Porous Vessel—an instrument designed for resonance, exchange, and deep material participation in the cycles of life and death.
Action: Violate the Labyrinth of Taboos through direct, sensory, and affective engagement with the agent of decomposition.
In the Worms Altar ritual, this involves externalizing an aspect of Decarnis (e.g., a written shame or anxiety about the body/mortality) and placing it into the living compost. This act retrains the visceral disgust response.
Action: Reincorporate the transformative truth: connecting the Dionysian experience to the analytical understanding of biological reality.
The symbolic ingestion (consuming the leaf grown from the compost) is the literal and symbolic return to life's cycles. The Socratic mode provides the clarity that the process is regenerative (Soil), not terminal (Dust). The shame deposited in the previous step becomes the material for future growth.
The Worms Altar is a **Counter-Labyrinth**: an architecture of revelation that makes visible and sacred what culture has hidden and profaned.