For me, what I do and how I present it is kind of like the Catholic doctrine surrounding the "Real Presence" of Christ in the Eucharist

That nails pretty much how I see it, although more by way of a communal communion with the same living presence, and more by way of seance that anything holy, though there's no niftier a piece of hocus-pocus than transubstantiation. Where two or three gather together... etc. etc. I'm not a religious man, but feel that Folk is essentially a religion on all sorts of levels.