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#300: Jack Kornfield - Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present

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Are There Any Rights of Passage or Rituals That Would Be Useful for Every Man or Woman?

i'm not jewish, so i don't have a barme fit. But the problem that you raise is that of the lack of initiation. And what's true is that it's been forgotten in our culture. A lot of these gang kids, for example, they're trying to initiate themselves,. which can't really happen. You need elders, and you need it in a ritualized way. So we desperately need these and we need them built into our education and to our psychology. If you look on mosaic multicultural foundation, his writings on initiation and what's possible here are very, very m inspiring.

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