From: Michele Wiegand (michele@ulster.net)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 07:33:01 MST
As part of "coming of age" some tribal cultures have a ceremony
where a person may take a hallucinogenic drug, or have to perform
some task (like hunting a particular animal, or finding a particular
plant) on one's own, with the idea of having a common experience,
but one that can only be appreciated as a self-discovery, alone.
So by going through a ceremony, knowledge is shared, but the
individual must discover the knowledge for him/herself.
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