Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What we know is that across a great range of times and places, people have taken practices of initiation seriously. They have constructed and relied on rituals, tied to moments of transition, in which the participants are taken out of their everyday reality for a time and brought to a confrontation with limits, to the rough edges of knowledge and perception, to the lived experience of their own mortality.
In fact there’s a new wave of interest in creating ritual spaces and practices like these that are designed to meet the challenges of the 21st century. They’re not modelled on any particular faith but draw on an eclectic range of religious, magical and secular healing traditions.
It is a come as you are, find a convenient rock, fallen tree or flat ledge of land, where the ritual begins when you are ready.
Many years ago, I was fortunate to discover Pascal’s Wager, and applied it to my own life
