Abstract
The chapter presents ritual activity as a currently not well understood and usually overlooked phenomenon. Thanks to its condensed and symbolic nature the ritual activity has a therapeutic potential, because it does not address just the rational intellect, but it works also with emotions and the bodily experience.
It has the ability to cultivate difficult and intense transformatory experience and thus can become a useful instrument for regulating psychedelic experiences. The author proposes to draw inspiration especially from the healing and initiatory rituals, which developed in the traditional societies precisely as the tools facilitating the processes of personal transformation (healing, changing life roles etc.).
However, these documented techniques cannot be blindly copied from their source cultures, they have to be well adjusted and adapted to the target culture (our postmodern present). Before they are used in therapeutic practice they have to be reflected upon, designed and tested.