The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The majority of initiatory ordeals more or less clearly imply a ritual death followed by resurrection or a new birth. The central… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery… — Karim El Koussa Copy Share Image
“Geno told them why I was there, and they all came down off the truck and looked me over — I guess… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near… — Timothy Victor Richardson Copy Share Image
“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I declare to you through the process of my own initiation that this is the only manner that you will get it.… — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The actual initiations open up any dense areas in the physical body. The Pleiadian start to break up where the individual is… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
“Many women do not even have the basic teaching about predators that a wolf mother gives her pups, such as: if it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
We always go back to that base, and that base is so important. It's like an energetic womb where you can begin.… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“...a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“A holy moonlit night turned into day, when the Sun appeared from the bosom of the Light—the Most High. The Sun became… — Karim El Koussa Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious:… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
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