Jules Weston / Rites of Passage

What we lack as adults today in western society is a form of rites of passage with a focus into ourselves, our ecological selves, our role in the world, what it means to be human and all the responsibility that entails.

Yet scratch the surface of the “modern consumer” and in evolutionary terms our instinctual, “primitive” or indigenous selves (which may be at least partially defined as living in harmony with nature, co-existing in community, without greed or plain “sustainable”) lie just below our skin.

I think the scratching of this surface by creating a modern, relevant, rites of passage in community and then passing that on, forms the backbone of this project.

The process is perhaps, necessarily, culturally specific in its approach but the themes that emerge will likely be universal human themes. My intention is that this approach, these thoughts, ideas, journeys and experiences in all their diversity are freely available through this website. The hope is that by reading the personal journals in the blogs and witnessing a process unfurl, you might find something that chimes with you, that you identify with and that in some form, at some time, you might want to take forward.