“It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.”

—Buckminster Fuller,
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking?

Archaic rites of initiation were known to be part of ancient cultures. Rebirthing rituals still exist among indigenous peoples around the world. Through these rituals, participants die to childhood or learned old ways and are reborn into...