RITES OF PASSAGE

This new in-depth course with Michael Meade explores how the ancient wisdom and archetypal patterns found at the core of rites of passage offer a blueprint of transformation that can serve both individuals and the collective and reconnect human culture to the heart of nature.
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YOU WILL LEARN

  • How the ideas and images of rites of passage can help us awaken to a sense of calling and purpose no matter our age, gender, stage or position in life. 
  • Why the soul sees each personal crisis and crucial crossroads as another chance to truly transform our lives.
  • How entering the betwixt and between space of liminality is necessary for both healing and transformation to occur.
  • How troubled times can cause an acceleration of calling that opens the pathways of genius and imagination and can also reveal our best way of contributing to the world.
  • How we are now in the midst of a collective rite of passage that requires not simply that we change, but that we truly transform our way of being and seeing in the world.

COURSE INCLUDES

  • 4+ Hours of Video

    Compelling presentations, stories and commentary with Michael Meade

  • 10 Audio Sessions

    Related audio that deepens and elaborates core themes

  • 150+ Pages of Related Writings

    Extensive excerpts from Michael Meade books and essays

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    Unlimited and lifetime access to all course content

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COURSE OVERVIEW

This in-depth course with Michael Meade explores how it is our collective fate to live amidst worldwide crises that rattle both nature and culture. Yet, a crisis can also be a calling and can become a crucible of transformation for societies as well as individuals. Whatever shatters the outer patterns of life can also open us to psychological and mythical levels of unusual depth and meaning.

At this time, what is being called for is a radical transformation of the world on many levels. Because humans are implicated at all levels, what is being called for is a transformation of humanity. The ancient wisdom and archetypal patterns found at the core of rites of passage offer a blueprint of transformation that can serve both individuals and the collective and reconnect human culture to the heart of nature.

Periods of uncertainty and upheaval can be understood as a liminal condition of being betwixt and between an old way of being and the next stage of growth. We are being called to a renewed sense of imagination about the world and our place in it. Stories and practices of rites of passage can help reveal greater visions for life on earth and make the difference between a continuing state chaos and upheaval and a genuine transformation that renews life.

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COURSE CURRICULUM

Course Introduction

Course Introduction

  • Welcome to the "Rites of Passage" Course
  • Mobile App

SESSION 1 - The Territory of Rites of Passage

Part 1 - The Initiatory Journey (VIDEO)

  • Opening Song / Introduction
  • Lame Deer - Lakota Story
  • Story Commentary
  • Rites of Passage Elements

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: Are all rites of passage as extreme as Lame Deer’s?
  • Question 2: What's the difference between an initiation and a rite of passage?
  • Question 3: Can a rite of passage last 20 years?
  • Question 4: Who or what can guide us in these times of liminality?
  • Question 5: I have a sense of what it means for someone to have a personal revelation with great vision that is then brought back to the village. What is the return stage in a modern culture? What is it like for a group or a collective?
  • Question 6: Might annihilation be an outcome of the rites of passage experience
  • Question 7: Is there any difference between initiations for males and females?
  • Question 8: Is there a difference between a rite of passage in adolescence or an older age?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Nene - Full Song
  • Audio: Nene - Commentary
  • Audio: The Archetype of Initiation
  • Audio: Paths of Song and Initiation
  • Book Excerpt: Origins of the Soul

SESSION 2 - Learning from the Liminal

Part 1 - Genuine Transformation (VIDEO)

  • The Nature of Liminality

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: How do we recover from our rites of passage journey when we are hurt, let down, or disappointed by our elders?
  • Question 2: If a person finds themselves in a rite of passage that is organically happening and they didn’t choose to undertake it, how does the purpose of it become known?
  • Question 3: It seems like an outcome of the lack of youthful rites of passage is that adults seek parental relationships with their employers, marriage partners, and even with their government. What are your thoughts on that?
  • Question 4: What do you think about religious sacraments and rituals? Personally, I think they could be more poignant and powerful.
  • Question 5: How do we distinguish between healthy and toxic initiations and belief systems if they both seem to draw from the same archetypal roots?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: A Liminal Time on Earth
  • Book Excerpt: Gifts and Wounds

SESSION 3 - Thresholds of Change

Part 1 - Rites of Healing and Transformation (VIDEO)

  • Core Rites of Passage

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: What are the ways of inviting others into a rite of passage? Does a community go by readiness signaled by the participant?
  • Question 2: Can you elaborate on rites of passage not occurring? Why have meaningful rites of passage been lost or diminished?
  • Question 3: I'm a man who delivers transformative initiatory rights for other men. Could you offer any advice on how I might best serve rites of passage, while knowing I don't really know anything about it in the way my ancestors might have?
  • Question 4: How can we reframe retirement to be a meaningful rite of passage for those of us in Western culture? Any culture?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Thresholds of Initiation (Part 1)
  • Audio: Thresholds of Initiation (Part 2)
  • Book Excerpt: The Roar of Awakening

SESSION 4 - The Call of the Soul

Part 1 - Awakening Genius (VIDEO)

  • The Spirit Within

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: I'm interested in your view of power and how to learn to use it wisely?
  • Question 2: How can we recognize our calling, and can anything be done to create clarity around working with and understanding our calling?
  • Question 3: I can't help but see a lot of parallels in rites of passage to the psychedelic experience. Could you touch on this and the renewed interest in the Western world?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Adversity Reveals Genius
  • Book Excerpt: Stopping in Time

SESSION 5 - Genius Hides Behind the Wound

Part 1 - Primordial Healing (VIDEO)

  • Gifts & Wounds

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: How can we reclaim our personal power in a way that liberates our internal genius?
  • Question 2: Would you please share your thoughts on severe child abuse survivors and rites of passage?
  • Question 3: How do we help young people who are feeling their pain but want to die and end their life as an answer to the pain?
  • Question 4: Considering the timelessness of liminality, would it be safe to say that no one is obligated to seek the genius behind their wound? Say in the case of abuse, that the wound may be dealt with more fully in due time, perhaps generations later.

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Where Genius Hides
  • Essay: What You Love Is The Cure
  • Book Excerpt: The Prison We Are In

SESSION 6 - Change the Soul, Change the World

Part 1 - Thresholds of Transformation (VIDEO)

  • Collective Rites of Passage

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: How can we deepen wedding ceremonies, often the only ceremony a person or a couple will ever have, to be a rite of love, of responsibility, and maturation?
  • Question 2: How does the initiated soul meet malevolence?
  • Question 3: Can you differentiate between a well-balanced rite of passage contrasted with other experiences like suffering, hardship or abuse?
  • Question 4: Can you speak to self-designed ceremony and ritual? Is it possible to put oneself through a rite of passage with all safety protocols in place?

Part 3 - Conclusion and Closing Song (VIDEO)

Part 4 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Collective Rites of Passage
  • Audio: Genius Transforms the World
  • Essay: What You Love Is The Cure
  • Book Excerpt: A Tale of Two Villages
  • About Michael Meade and Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
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