a Freemason if you want to be uh you know why you might want to be a Freemason and yet these they have these initiation rights they have these hand handshakes proba there's more than one um that they don't want anyone to knowabout and yes they do involve a trouser leg being pulls up uh but not for long apparently and if you've heard the the
-Without a mentor as a companion, it won't work. Initiation depends on the generosity of the grown-ups, and the mentor has to be someone that's not going to abandon that boy.-When communities saw that this was happening in young people and they were beginning to rebel against the cultural values
-You start to think about what your mission is, what you want to do. -Initiation and mentorship has helped me by realizing that it's OK to cry. Not just in front of men, but in front of women without feeling like you're any less of a man.
And I sort of took it on as like a side hustle. And initiation by fire-- what I learned very quickly, which you do all day long-- is, if you tell a great story, you will bring in people into a brand.
Suck it up. There you go. Big initiation , right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my-- Yeah.
So in that case, fine, go in peace but you're a danger to this group. So initiation rites are very, very important for bringing young males into this sort of group that will be doing something extremely dangerous where everyone is in a lot more danger if there's any weak link in the chain where you can't rely on that person.
I owe my awareness at all of this to Wilma Mankiller, who was the chief of the Cherokee Nation, a dear friend and a colleague, and my belated initiation into how prevalent, missing and murdered indigenous women are. Also, Amy Richards and I did a documentary
We're sitting down, all us freshmen. It's like our initiation for Butler freshman class basketball players. And they give us a sheet that says, "No talent required." And I was like, this is interesting.
whole Artisan movement um they're a lot more traditional uh butchers especially because we ended up with horse meat all over our plates quite recently I think sort of weird initiation rights for you recruit so if you're a builder you're told to go and get a sky hook um or a
Number one is they don't teach financial literacy in schools, right? It's the initiation of a conversation that's going to be immediate, that's going to inspire you.
Not just in front of men, but in front of women without feeling like you're any less of a man. -After my initiation with women, every time I feel myself-- like my foundation wavering-- instead of needing to run to my husband or to these usual go-to people that are holding so much, it's my sisters.
And of course saying it doesn't make it real, right? I needed initiation , I needed education about becoming the man that I wanted to become. So in my teen years, I got way into drugs and alcohol and fortunately survived it without hurting myself
or anybody else. Which is a typical experience for a lot of teens unconsciously-- in my view-- seeking that experience of initiation , wanting to push themselves to the edge, but not having societal mechanisms to hold them and keep them safe.
It's interesting, because now-- for the audience, I'm working on this very cool project for and it's the initiation of a prize. And it's for talent all over the world.
during which time the world is only an abstraction as they are taught the values of their society. And then after this extraordinary initiation , the accolade is taken out for the first time on a journey to the heart of the world from the sacred temple to the ice, from the ice back to the sea.
Like someone will say, I can't believe you did x, y, and z. I see the intention of your initiation , or how you wanted to start that scene, and I'll help you finish it off.
And I guess that impression lasted forever. And I think that that was my initiation into ghazal singing that was-- that's when I got inspired. And then I started following this form of music religiously.
And as a donkey, he experiences many sufferings, the brutality of people, but also a lot of comedy. And then it ends with a religious initiation . But in the middle of this story, a young woman is abducted on her wedding night by bandits, and she's taken to a cave.
You need to know this. The way you find out is through initiation rites. And if you're not willing to go through whatever tortures and humiliations and whatever else I can devise to test, to challenge your identity
committed to doing absolutely anything that's asked of them on behalf of the group. When you were talking about training and initiation , it reminded me of watching a History Channel video on BUD/S training, you guys have probably seen it. And there's the hell week scene, and it shows this guy who they're trying to get in these rafts and put them against the current and then
rumor about a new surround a neck and these initiation initiation rights that does happen too uh but apparently it's supposed to represent the umbilical cord and nothing more Sinister but these initiation rights which I wasn't allowed to see sadly because women there are female only Masonic lodges but you can't become a member of the main ones um they're like little playlets which are
Another way of saying that, again, is gifts or medicine. use psychotropic plants as part of the initiation ceremonies.
citizens of the world. And and I think in in many ways this game, you know, taught by John is very much the initiation of that process where these kids do feel part of a greater whole. It starts with their team, but here's a
And, really, it's not really even about the effects that these folks have on our elections. Like a serious ceremonial sort of kind of becoming-- initiation , right?
about and yes they do involve a trouser leg being pulls up uh but not for long apparently and if you've heard the the rumor about a new surround a neck and these initiation initiation rights that does happen too uh but apparently it's supposed to represent the umbilical cord and nothing more Sinister but these initiation rights which I wasn't allowed to see sadly because women there are
The start, the initiation of the project, and the deepening of the project requires different environment, different skills, and so on.
You saw some of that in the film. No one is really connecting the dots and considering that initiation and mentorship-- which by the way, I think of as two halves of one whole. Membership is required before, during, and after any kind of initiation or rite of passage process.
I was going to ask you if this was your initiation ceremony for Pixar.
A scene like a war zone. -When a culture doesn't provide formal rites of passage or initiations , then you get usually destructive versions of it. -Maybe if we had other ways for kids to illustrate their adult-like qualities, then they wouldn't resort to these anti-social ones.
And the literature suggested that these areas of the brain were involved in flight initiation and cessation.
Yeah exactly. Do you want to do initiation reports-- We can show initiation .
so many -- of course they need the others to carry them out -- but without the initiation , the perpetrator on the ground would never ever start slaughtering people in their en-,
state push, state mobilization, state initiation .
So this is, like, my initiation into the medical double speak used in the context of intersex treatment.
Actually, I gave it to him during the kalachakra initiation , the last one that he did-- which will not be the last one he will do-- but last one
And he would say it was the preparatory rituals, what's called the self-initiation rituals where they build up the cosmic mandala, in which then the ceremony takes place
whole Artisan movement um they're a lot more traditional uh butchers especially because we ended up with horse meat all over our plates quite recently I think customers um other recurring things I don't know here at Google do you have any kind of not really initiation rights for new recruits but do you have any
and they've lost that essential potency that's required to drive transformation and make it happen. There's a couple of other key fundamental lessons-- in my experience-- that result as a process of healthy rite of passage or initiation . Knowing your place in the cosmos is one of them.
Another way of saying that, again, is gifts or medicine. And there's also Martin Prechtel, who wrote many wonderful books about Central American initiation , the native Mayan people.
There's just a lot of really tribal groupish stuff, initiation rites, a lot of weird stuff we do that makes perfect sense if you think that our genes came down to us in part by
No one is really connecting the dots and considering that initiation and mentorship-- which by the way, I think of as two halves of one whole. Membership is required before, during, and after any kind of initiation or rite of passage process. That's just one set of problems, there's also another problem.
All right, so now I do a little bit just to concentrate mind, so to speak, with how this translates into the initiation
The other big one, that was a huge surprise for me, was your initiation gets impacted chemically.
But I couldn't understand, as I was mentioning, this lack of initiation .
So these are all the lessons that were coming through it, all those formidable years of teenage-- to have these initiations almost.