 For tribal cultures, you couldn't be an adult if you went through an initiation. And in our society, maybe what we have on the mass scale is a global society of kid alts. Without initiation, we can think about the different reasons why modern society lost those practices. People are kind of adrift. They don't have a greater narrative. They don't have a greater sense of meaning. And also, they don't have that reference point in a transpersonal state so they can go from just focusing on their own ego-centric desires, their local interests, to having a truly collective interest. In a way, initiation is kind of like a self-willed, culturally induced disaster for the individual to go to the edge of their own awareness and kind of see what lies beyond it. It's like the culture still hasn't really figured out how to welcome back in that next level of perception. And on a larger scale, maybe we could look at the ecological crisis as a kind of collective right of passage or planetary initiation for humanity as a whole. The initiation for us, since we're not being welcomed back in that same sense, is to then transform the society that we've inherited to become harmonic with the biosphere and to kind of honor the deeper potentials that the human being has, which are kind of systemically suppressed by our society.