From: Steele, Kirk A (SteeleKA@nafm.misawa.af.mil)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 15:57:56 MST
This common experience in tribal culture was a fascinating aspect in my
studies on Adolescent Psychology. That period of sturme and strange' where
maturation and development at very discontinuous. To alleviate this,
societies enact rituals to empower the youths in their transition from
childhood while at the same time sanctifying their new STATUS as an adult.
The bio-social psychology wrapped up in THE RIGHTS OF PASSAGE does account
for many semesters of undergraduate study and years of doctoral research.
Kirk
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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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