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difficulty created by the millennia of mixed management by
humankind. To the uninitiated this might appear as an
insurmountable mountain, to the initiated it is just another hill
that need to be traversed. Again as has already been said
modern western society is devoid of any tangible initiation
rite and thus this very important point in the child’s
development has been ignored and passed over. At birth the
child has entrusted its power to the adults it has chosen to care
for them, at the initiation this power is to be returned to the
child and the controls the adults had over the child
relinquished. The young adult in its sixteenth year should find
themselves with their power intact. This power includes their
spiritual power. Should they not find they have this power
they will unconsciously go seeking it. It will be the hunger
they feel, an insatiable hunger until it is finally satisfied by
their sense of their return to power. Should this human being
not find its power it might have to search throughout its life,
often using inappropriate techniques in an effort to find
satisfaction. The usual searches for power are in the area of
“sex, drugs and rock and roll”, to use a popular phrase. They
don’t know where else to look but these areas seem to give
other adults some expression of their power. There are things
that they see other older adults doing that give them the
impression that this is what adult life is about. They choose
not to see the results of such delusion until they experience
the outcome themselves. Too often then they blame
circumstance for causing the catastrophe and fail to accept
that it was entirely their choices that brought about the
calamitous effect. They fail to get any results; they fail to ease
the inexplicable hunger they have. They fail to get fulfilment
though they over indulge themselves in their pursuit, and all