"We are in a time of initiation folks, a mass initiation at the level of culture itself, a vision quest for the collective mind. Modern Culture it's adolescent, carries on with a sense of inventiveness and entitlement needs to be sloped off to make room for a more mature sense of interdependence with and responsibility to the community of life, this is the work of initiation.

I do not know if I will survive the crash of industrial civilization or the effects of climate change that this civilization has unleashed. I do know this, I have a choice about how I face it. I have a choice. We have a choice.

I can face it with a burguer in my hand and a french fry in my mounth, or I can face it with consicounes, integrity and the sense of purpose that is my birthright, I can face it on the other side of initiation a mature and related member of the community of life, standing tall, doing my best to protect and serve this earth that I love, this is the course I've chosen, this is my piked pen, I will show up.

But it is hard to sail alone. When the seas rage so fiercely. If you sail with me, we will both be stronger, and if others join us, our crew will indeed be stronger. Together we will sail out to find a new land."

Let's build a boat in case the clouds gather in the sky.

Becoming adult it is not something that happens from night to day, like becoming 18 years old. Becoming adult is a journey that has a beginning but no end.  

Authentic Adulthood is a potential, not a given. At 18 you are declared by authorities outside yourself that you are now an 'adult'. However, people not automatically grow and develop into responsible, community-oriented adults by itself. It takes Adults to Initiate people into Adulthood.

"This transition to adulthood is exceedingly difficult in Western societies because there are no systems of adulthood rites to systematically guide and direct the young person through this important stage in his or her life cycle. In Western culture adulthood is seen as a status achieved at the age of 18 or 21, or simply when the person graduates from high school. Unfortunately, in most cases there is no fundamental guidance or transformation from a child to an adult that is required or expected. This “leave it for chance” approach to adulthood development is the root of most teenage and youth “adult” confusion, chaos, and uncertainty. When the youth reach a certain age, somehow they are expected to magically transformed into an “adult,” eventhough they often receive very little guidance. On the other hand, African societies systematically initiate boys and girls. They often take the young initiates out of the community, and away from the concerns of everyday life, to teach them all the ways of adulthood: including the rules and taboos of the society; moral instruction and social responsibility; and further clarification of his/her mission or calling in life." (Manu Ampim)

Initiation concerns undergoing a fundamental set of rites to start a new phase or beginning in life. It marks the passing from one phase in life to the next more mature phase. Initiation fundamentally has to do with Transformation, Healing and Responsability. Initiations were outlawed by the patriarchal empire 6000 years ago.

In the past, initiations were based on removing the child's point of origin from the nuclear family, the parents, and relocating its point of origin within the tribe, within the traditions. The proposal nowdays in Possibility Managment is not to bring back this same kind of initiation, because the conditions of our time are completely different from those of the past. The 21st century requires other types of initiations. The times nowdays asks for Initiations where people can stand in their power as Creators and Inventors, shifting from being a consumer (a planet), into being a source of creation (a star).

To find Initiations and process of Growing up, will take you to go to the edges of modern culture. Going to the edges means going to places you do not know. Places that are not on Netflix and mainstream media. Places your friends don't talk about. Places that are not in the books, actors, and studies offered by your teachers and your university. Places that are not in the comfort of your parents' house.

Your Conscious Fear is your compass and your ally. 

A part of the text 'A Tadpole’s Tail' . Written by Martín Prechtel

"The strong instinct young people have to be enamored of magnificent chieflike heroes, to follow political movements, to imitate celebrities or to espouse big ideas, comes from all people’s natural gravitation toward a confrontation with the divine in this world. However amateurish, the young long for the spirit, for the deliciousness of living life beyond the calculated hum-drum, survival and safety of their parents’ world.

In their idealism, some youths want to “fix” everything. In a frustrated disillusionment other teenagers want to destroy everything that has gone away in a world that was handed to them, a world already ruined by “stupid” adults. In either case, the youth want to charge up a hill at the enemy.

The main difference between the cultures who send their youth to war or corporations and the culture of a Mayan village lay in the fact that the village elders did not send their youth off to war armed with computers, swords, rocket launchers, or tanks to kill and raid, creating more Death. Very significantly, they sent their Rainwarriors to fight against the Deity of Death, to fight Death itself, not to make more death but to coax Death into releasing life back to us.

People who didn’t fight Death in adolescence were destined to live in a walking death (zombies). Already killed, depressed, and dangerous they become wreakers of violence, makers of death, corporate soldiers, and, more importantly, they become the destroyers of all that is Female.

Because they had not fought Death, Death still had their souls, their Female Spirit Brides. Because these uninitiated men have no souls, they begin to “steal” women, to “rob” the Female Earth of its minerals, trees, and wealth, in a vain attempt to fill that hollow place in them where the Female soul should have been sitting, trying to steal a soul, just as Death had stolen the Goddess from life to fill his emptiness.

If initiation is about culture and the modern world desires initiation it will have to redefine itself. A new culture would have to develop where humans and their inventions are not at the center of the universe, and where God too is not at the center. What could be at the center is a hollow place, an empty place, where both God and we humans could sing and weep together as a team pushing magical words into that sacred Hole. "

Martín Prechtel describes beautifully the necessity of facing death. In the absence of Authentic Initiatory processes in modern culture, some young people decide to create certain deaths themselves. This takes many forms; some examples are screaming at friends or teachers at school, or even literally killing themselves. Many of those who do not literally kill themselves choose to kill themselves gradually in other ways, such as not living the life they want.

When you conform to the system and decide "I'm going to go the way my parents went", you are killing yourself because you are not living your life. Instead you are living :

- what your parents want you to live.

- what the government wants you to live,

- what the media wants you to live,

- what the vocational test wants you to live,

- what your friends want you to live,

- what your teachers want you to live.

You have to sacrifice your soul and heart's desires to be "falsely" accepted and loved. On the surface, it may seem like a good thing, something civilized and "normal" for you to be successful. But deep down you are slowly killing yourself. You are creating a life of frustration, pressure, illness, despair, depression and ambition.

IT TAKES PREPARATION TO GO THROUGH INITIATIONS

Being born and raised in modern culture took you far away from your Being, from thriving as human being on Earth. It also didn't prepare you to grow up, to enter adulthood. On the contrary, we have been prepared for years to obey, to copy, and to remain like children, making messes and waiting for others to clean them up and save us. We have been trained for years to sit on metal or wooden chairs that take us away from being human.

Therefore, before even trying to 'become adults', there are certain preparations to go through first that will enable you to reclaim your humanity.

As you regain your innate abilities as an alive human being, such as feeling your feelings, communicating what you want and need, making contact and connection, you start to build the necessary Matrix to take more responsibility in the world.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS GAMEWORLD?

"Why are adolescents with clarity and energy for regenerative change forced to march in the streets holding up placards only to be attacked with pepper spray in the eyes then beaten and dragged away by corporate-sponsored militar?

There is a few distinctions added to Buckminster Fuller’s declaration: “You do not change things by fighting against the existing gameworlds. You change things by cavitating and inhabiting new gameworlds that make the existing gameworlds irrelevant.”_ It is the task of the youth to build new gameworlds."

There is a potential in you, young adult, as Spaceholder for the Now and for a possible Future.

You do not need a job, you need Initiation into Authentic Adulthood and the Liberation of your Potentials in Archan /Gaian Gameworld.

18, What Now? is a gameworld with the purpose to empower and prepare you, young adult, to go through Authentic Initiations into Adulthood and step into and deliver your own non-material value.

I call it an Institute of the Technology of Living because this space is a territory where you're given the opportunity to learn skills that bring you closer to being human and living.