ROP’s certainly need to be a part of our communal experience; so my question is if the experience itself should emerge from the elders within an individual’s community? ✨🐾
Yes and ideally, rites emerge from within a person's own living community. Though worth noting — traditional rites were never held by elders alone. The whole community participated. Everyone witnessed. That collective holding is part of what made them transformative.
The grief is that most of us in the contemporary West don't have that — not the elders, not the intact community, not the shared ritual language. This is a bridge. A provisional container, built w care anfor those standing at a threshold with no one to witness them.
Oh my gosh, Stasha. I love this so much! What a perfect description of the journey we are about to embark upon! :)
ROP’s certainly need to be a part of our communal experience; so my question is if the experience itself should emerge from the elders within an individual’s community? ✨🐾
Yes and ideally, rites emerge from within a person's own living community. Though worth noting — traditional rites were never held by elders alone. The whole community participated. Everyone witnessed. That collective holding is part of what made them transformative.
The grief is that most of us in the contemporary West don't have that — not the elders, not the intact community, not the shared ritual language. This is a bridge. A provisional container, built w care anfor those standing at a threshold with no one to witness them.
I hold it humbly, and with that question alive
Couldn’t agree more.✨🐾
…..Elders are reminding factors.🐾
We need them
I’ve been blessed to be part of some creative rites of passages here in Boulder, Colorado- elders are woven and their wisdom is needed and appreciated