Resources

This collection offers a variety of viewpoints and topics for exploration. We will continue to add more inspiring and informative sources covering a variety of aspects of rites of passage in today’s world. Please note that some of these resources were written years or even decades ago, so the language may not reflect the evolving terminology and understanding we have today of diversity, equity, and cultural appropriation and appreciation.

Cracked Open: The Nature of Grief, Loss and Illness

Cracked Open: The Nature of Grief, Loss and Illness

Death and dying are hard topics to bring up in modern day ...
Humanity's Rite Of Passage: A World Tended By Adults

Humanity’s Rite Of Passage: A World Tended By Adults

Written by Carolyn Baker, 13 October, 2009 Countercurrents.org For one who has ...
Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?

Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?

By Richard Tarnas [A] mood of universal destruction and renewal...has set its ...
Lost Borders: Coming of Age in the Wilderness

Lost Borders: Coming of Age in the Wilderness

Nine youths perform a ten-day initiation ceremony, the heart of which is ...
Moving From Who We Have Been to Who We Can Become

Moving From Who We Have Been to Who We Can Become

By Ron Pevny As someone who is deeply committed to supporting people ...
Reclaiming the Indigenous Soul

Reclaiming the Indigenous Soul

By Malidoma Somé & Francis Weller ...
Releasing the Past in the Death Lodge

Releasing the Past in the Death Lodge

By Ron Pevny Endings and Beginnings—Keys To Conscious Elderhood The journey into ...
Remembering and Reclaiming our Indigenous Soul

Remembering and Reclaiming our Indigenous Soul

Remembering and Reclaiming our Indigenous Soul By Nancy Jane There was a ...
Rites of Passage: Portals to Conscious Elderhood

Rites of Passage: Portals to Conscious Elderhood

by Ron Pevny Certified Sage-ing Leader and Director of the Center for ...
Southering the Wheel Excerpt

Southering the Wheel Excerpt

This is an introductory video from our Southering the Wheel Virtual Basecamp! ...
THE MEDICINE WALK: An Exploration of Ecopsychology and Rites of Passage

THE MEDICINE WALK: An Exploration of Ecopsychology and Rites of Passage

By John Davis, Ph.D. Naropa University School of Lost Borders It's quite ...