Everyone talks about how fast the world is changing. Experts make predictions, but the honest ones admit—our future is shrouded in fog.
Something will happen, that’s certain. But what, where, how, and when? No one really knows.
When the world shifts at breakneck speed, every part of it must adapt or fade into oblivion. Some aspects of your personality, beliefs, and habits need to burn away to make room for a better you.
Newness isn’t just inspiring, promising progress. It’s terrifying, threatening to grind us into dust. This creates an agonizing dilemma:
Do you fight change at all costs, or embrace it with open arms?
For most people today, this is torture. Even if they intellectually accept the need for transformation, they have no clue what to change, where, how, or when.
Have you noticed how uncertainty attacks from both inside and out?
Not only do schools and colleges fail to teach this, but the secularization of society has dismantled every ancient ritual. A ritual isn’t just some mindless repetition performed by backward religious people. A ritual is a bridge between different states of being:
Marking a new status (a wedding).
Shaping identity (an initiation).
Easing transitions (coming of age).
Awakening dormant inner power (a rite of passage) etc.
When two forces of chaos collide—inside and outside—you need a container. Otherwise, you get an explosion, not transformation. Rituals provide structure, breaking the inertia and tapping into archetypal energies to move you from state A to state B.
Modern society suffers from a lack of rituals. More and more people feel lost, empty. They remain “uninitiated,” having never unlocked their inner resources through the right passage.
If you don’t want to be overwhelmed by raw archetypes and want to be ready for what’s coming, you must rediscover the power of ancient rituals. And create your own.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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