Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show. I'm Connor Bieden and today we're going to talk about the

importance of initiation rights and what parts of initiation are important, what the benefits are

and how you might be able to go about creating one. So what are initiations and why do men need them? So initiations are meant to do a few things

for men or boys that are meant to pull them into a more deeply connected, present, grounded

state as a man. So first and foremost, it puts us

face to face with our own mortality. And that's one of the most important things about initiation

rights. Before a man goes through initiation, oftentimes he will have a sort of vague or

avoidant relationship to death and mortality.

And so he won't actually see his mortality as something that is inevitable.

And he will believe on some level that part of him is never going to die or that he's

never going to die and that death will will not come for him.

And this disconnection, this belief can lead to a ton of challenges.

It can lead to addictions.

It can lead to obsessions and obsessive behavior and OCD-like behavior.

It can lead to a massive amount of anxieties or depressions,

all because he's acting in a way that he doesn't believe that there's consequences.

Really, one of the big pieces that helps teach us about mortality

is the realization that there are some consequences that have irreversible

outcomes, that we can do things in life that are, that are sort of finite, and that teach us a

lesson that we can never come back from. And that's an incredibly, incredibly important thing that a man needs to learn.

Because when he comes face to face with death or mortality, he comes face to face with the unknown.

And this allows us as men to realize and accept that some things are uncontrollable,

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