Badly termed I'm afraid - considering there is no self to be had in the first place. Though in ritual, there is the decisiveness to act, which we call - well, what do we call it? Though the 'sacred' itself is the fullness of things in their entirity - from dew-drops and rabbit-shit, to farts and stars. Or am I just mad!? (probably) There is nothing in the natural order of things which isn't sacred in my strange view of the world.

Would participator be a better word than self? I note your Buddhist background. What would you say?