What Is an Initiatory Experience?

"I'm not trying to make the phenomenoni just nothing. But an initiatory experience, it's a lot deeper than that" "We're using words without really explaining what they mean exactly," he says. 'It is a picture of what could happen if we decided we want to find out what this is' He adds: We do dissociate in the face of things we don't understand. No, but we're supposed to."