“I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.” — Frederich Nietzche.
Initiation is such a constant in the cultural body that it is evident in one form or another in nearly every human culture that has ever existed before the industrial age, at which point it became notably absent, at least on the surface. This absence has produced a very real psychological crisis on a cultural scale, although as we will see in many ways the initiatory impulse has merely transferred itself, oftentimes to behaviors and beliefs which only shallowly fulfill that impulse.
Full article on Reality Sandwich:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/initiation_masks_identity_part_1
(This three part series will be run in their final form in the Immanence of Myth anthology.)
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