initiation Archives - Sam Sleeman

The Lizard in the Fire Chapter 02 The Wildman version.

2 May 2021 Sam Sleeman 754 Views 0 Comments a time of instruction, Acting ugley around the douse, choosing, death., decisions, eternal, forest, initiation, Rite of passage, the enormous forest, the Fire, The Great mother, The Lizard, timeless

A different version of the Lizard in the Fire story from Boys to Men Colorado. The Wildman version.

Rites of passage

A man requires meaning.

10 June 2019 Sam Sleeman 866 Views 0 Comments acquiring meaning, afraid, for storytellers, initiation, loss of soul, man needs, meaning, miserable, power, wasteland

A man requires meaning. There is no way for him to be fulfilled without it. Indeed, there is no way for

Essays Rites of passage

Rites of passage. The importance for our youth.

9 June 2019 Sam Sleeman 860 Views 0 Comments empowerment, Finding what we are capable off, initiation, purpose, Rites of passage

In modern times the “old ways” are glaringly absent, dismissing indigenous old ways as superstition or primitive, having little relevance to an automated life prescribed by consumerism.

Guiding Philosophy

Myths promise us our spiritual inheritance.

21 May 2019 Sam Sleeman 2412 Views 0 Comments eternal, eternity, initiation, Myth, our own center, Rites of passage, time

Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the pressures and limitations of daily life. Myth speaks to the extraordinary in us and to the innate nobility of our souls. Hearing a mythic story awakens the myth living in each of us. As the story enters us, we enter the timeless territory of myth. We become mythic again, a knowing participant in our own story and a seeker near its source. For, being in a “mythic condition” allows us to reconnect to the core imagination at the center of our soul.