In conscious ritualing, the more discipline you put into it, the more focused you may become on your own landscape. In effect, as your landscape becomes more meaningful to you, your familiarity with your unique landmarks and pathways can prevent you from seeing beyond them. This can be a problem.

In a familiar landscape, there’s a comfort level, a symbiotic routine to it, which is not always easy to to give up; it may be inconvenient to set aside the time to see why an alternative path might be superior, or at least worth exploring. Therefore, even though conscious ritualing might bring you more qualia, if you’re too disciplined, you might not see the qualia hidden by that same qualia as it develops into habitual landmarks and pathways.

But you can use that discipline to consciously ritual with, so to speak, an eye for other landscapes and ecosystems. We must always be willing to step just slightly beyond what we know, and to move from control to spontaneity.