The Importance of Death in Transition

In traditional cultures there were rights of initiation definitely for boys but often for girls too and that one of the things you know rituals of initiation always contain an element of death and rebirth. I do think it's like we need as young as young people going through a transition we need the elders to lead us across the threshold but we also need to have that experience of you know death, she says. One thing Talia Ginsburg writes about is this relationship between fantasy and real life or between imagination and real life.