INITIATION INTO ADULTHOOD

All Indigenous Cultures that I know of had their ‘rite of passage’ - a ritual initiation where the irresponsible patterns of childhood were shed in order to make room for new, responsible patterns.

As a child, we are not supposed to be responsible. We are supposed to be children. We are supposed to be cared for. In exchange for that care, we take on the stories, personality traits, quirks, patterns, beliefs, etc.. of our caretakers. It’s the unspoken contract between caretaker and child.

And then our physical body matures, our mind transforms in its capability. We look grown up, but there is so much left to develop in order to fully embody adulthood.

Where is the emotional body training? When do we learn to connect with our feelings? To distinguish feelings from emotions? To look inward for answers?

What about the energetic body? When do we learn to sense what is needed? To strengthen our intuition? To develop our sacred practices?

We don’t and so we live in a world full of large children. Humans who are physically and intellectually powerful, yet emotionally and energetically empty - lost.

I’m one of those lost boys and the way I’ve started to find some semblance of truth is by finally coming back to the most powerful statement I’ve learned..

I DON’T KNOW

And that is why (and from where) I create these workshops/trainings - to give myself the opportunity to learn and develop what has not been taught, with a circle of humans who choose to do the same. And to do something about the lack of rites of passage that have left us starving.

We use our anger about the way things are to take each step courageously into the unknown with the powerful wisdom of fear directing the navigation and with our sadness we connect on deeper levels than we’ve ever known possible.

Radiant beings emerge from the ashes.