INITIATION FROM THE INSIDE

Initiation is a term as defined in Frank and Wagner as a start or beginning of something new. Initiation can be into a club, futurity, sorrority, band, or group such as the Klu Klux Klan. It can be demeaning, humiliating, painful and harmful.  It's become a common practice in The South and has been especially made known in recent years how even band members must go through initiation that can be life threatening.

 

 

THE PHENOMENA OF INITIATION

 

From the times of the first Olympic games when athletes had to run naked and the times of Socrates to this present day, and scandals on fraternity, sorority and band ceremonies has cost lives. Nothing has really changed. When the human decides the procedure it is often cruel, demeaning, ridiculous and worse.

 

SO WHAT'S THE PURPOSE?

 

To put others under the pressure to reach the level where they are and their supreme status. It has cost lives......many lives! So what is initiation really? Initiation is the start of something new, reaching towards the unknown with hope and wanting to fit in. Initiation in it's purest concept is simply just starting something new in your life and discovering a lifestyle that's fitting.

Only your peers can inflict punishment on you/their own peers, in order to reach a level of false servitude and pledge obedience where no obedience is required except in their social structure. Many deaths of young people have ocurred just simply trying to join their peer group. And the power and the money always controlled it along with "society"!

 

Initiation is the start of something new in your life regardless of age - the start of something you've never seen before. You hope for the best...... In reality it's suckling your mother's breast. There you got your first introduction to sustenance and life! There as you clasped to your mother's breast you found security, love, balance and reward. This was your FIRST initiation into this world! And each child, whether newborn, 20, 30 or 40, needs to realize their first introductions were not wrong and sustenance came from it and these values will carry you for the rest of your life.

 

SO WHAT GOES WRONG?

 

From birth you knew what real initiation was - it was loving and it was kind. As time goes on the rules seem to change in mid stream and you no longer need to suckle a breast. You're trying to grow - giving everything you have. You're scared, you're loving but you're fearful. So what happens? You went from your mothers' arms to school, into the world, and you found the hatred, the biases, that you never found at your mother's breast. Like thousands of generations of humans you were thrown in the pikes of hatred, class warfare and bigotry. Not one person in millions of years have escaped these problems! Nor ME!

 

SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

 

The answers are within you and only you can answer the questions as to what is real and what is not just like every human being in the course of their lives has had to do for millions of years. The process is slow and tedious and requires thought. Like the late great horsemen Ray Hunt and Tom and Bill Dorrance said - THINK! Ray, Tom and Bill believed that humans have the ability to mentally, emotionally and physically be able to psychologically meditate in a way of making connections so that every little feeling, action and choice is in accordance with timing and balance.

 

 

THINK!!!! It is up to you what initiation ultimately will be so long as you are not a victim of supposed authority based on ignorance! It is ultimately up to you to decide what is true and what is not! It is up to you to THINK - weigh the variables - to decide in your own precious life who you want to be! Thus I conclude that initiation is up to you and only you! Nobody else can do it for you. "If you find a way to fit this way of thinking right here, it will make you better. It will make you better in ways you never knew it could." (Buck Brannaman)


ARE  ALL INITIATIONS BAD ?

No they are not all bad. In fact there are many initiations that are great. This starts from the day you are born and suckling from your mothers breast, to one day being baptized. Initiations can be expressed as building a fort at 10 years old and having a secret password just to go inside, at the age of 15 becoming a boy scout or girl scout and swearing an oath, when you turn 18 pledging allegiance to the flag through the United States military, being united in marriage and saying your wedding vow to your future spouse. Taking communion at church, this is a way of showing your commitment to Christ. All through out your life you are constantly being tested with initiations. Everybody wants to fit in and pass the test. It is a right of passage, a test of character, it's human nature.