“Behind every preventable threat to the future of the human race lurks a boy in a man's body with both hands buried… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“There are women who stay in the underworld through no fault of their own: it is a byproduct of a male-dominated society.… — Sarah Durham Wilson Copy Share Image
“In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free,… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“The two boys had come along and found the rabbit dying by the bank. The breeze was up a little and it… — Cynan Jones Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“The interest of initiation for an understanding of archaic mentality lies predominantly in its showing us that the true man-the spiritual man-is… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“As we said before, initiation lies at the core of any genuine human life. And this is true for two reasons. The… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping,… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Rites and rituals open hearts and clear minds. They help us embody reverence and allow us to get in touch with our… — Ahriana Platten Copy Share Image
“We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image