Life as Initiation
On the initiation that cannot be refused, the difference between old and elder, and what the traditions that honored aging understood about the specific knowledge that only the dissolution of the younger self makes available
Life as Initiation
On why addiction is an initiatory structure that delivers the phenomenology without the transformation, what genuine hunger it is answering, and why recovery is initiatory in the fullest sense
Life as Initiation
On Parenting as Mutual Initiation and the Child Who Refuses to Let You Stay the Same
Life as Initiation
On Grief as Initiatory Technology and the Culture That Has Forgotten How to Mourn
Life as Initiation
On how every belief system is a map of reality rather than reality itself, and why mistaking symbols for the sacred has cost humanity immeasurable suffering
Life as Initiation
On Partnership as Alchemical Operation and the Difference Between Love and the Work of Love
Life as Initiation
On the Political Dimension of Return and What the Mystery School Owes the World
Life as Initiation
On the Domains of Return and the Practice of the Initiated Life
Life as Initiation
On the Return, the Campbell Frame, and the Initiate as Vector
Life as Initiation
On what St. John of the Cross actually described, why it is not depression, and what the tradition knows about surviving the dissolution that is preparing the most complete transformation