On initiation and initiatory traditions

[geminibalance]

[this is the most useful, insightful, and brilliant thing I've found so far among my new friends on the pagan and occult community on Tumblr. I want to remember it forever. I place it here both to share and also for safe keeping.]

[A reader asked a friend of mine:]Serious pondering about those who claim you CANNOT learn x thing without being

Comments

[duane_kc]

Brilliant. I've always referred to spirit-initiation as the "HEY! [thwack upside the head] Learn something!" experience. Happened to a friend of mine, and he really *wasn't* quite the same, or quite right, afterwards.