Dumb Supper Extravaganza

1. Set a table for a banquet.

2. Invite a number of people both living and otherwise.

3. Dress for dinner. Set the table beautifully. Make sure there are sufficient chairs and place settings for the unseen guests.

4. Do not speak at all. Do not serve yourself. Everyone must serve others, living or otherwise. Allow yourself to become sensitive to the desires of others. (You may also designate specific people to serve as waiters.)

5. When the meal is over, dishes cleared away and everyone has left the table (and the dead have presumably departed), discuss experiences, perceptions, and insights.

Dumb Supper for Two

1. Set the table for three (or more).

2. Serve both living people and also the departed (Make    sure there are enough chairs so that the departed may sit).

3. After the meal is over and cleaned away and you have left the table, both people may discuss their experiences and perceptions.

Dumb Supper for One

1. Set the table for two (or more, depending upon the number of guests anticipated or invited).

2. Serve yourself and the other party.

3. Don’t utter a sound until the meal is over.

Dumb Supper Spells

Do you wish to dine with Dr. Dee, Madame Blavatsky and Mamzelle Marie Laveau?Invite them? Perhaps you’d rather share a meal with your late great-grandmother. Invite her,,, too? Dumb Suppers  are ritual meals enacted with between living and the dead. “Dumb” indicates not lack of intelligence but that these meals(and any communication) are conducted in silence. While the dead are formally invited to attend, all cooking and serving is done by the living. Although a dumb supper may be served at  any time, traditionally they are scheduled to coincide with Halloween the time of year when the veil between realms is thinnest. Extend specific invitations or allow yourself to be surprised by who shows up.