REVIEW BY PEGI EYERS
I am full of gratitude for the emergence of Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up in our time! Cultural visionary Darcy Ottey offers us a template for significant rites of passage – and what it means to be a true adult – in this monumental book. At the epicenter of the movement for many years, her passion, dedication, warmth and care shine through on every page. Written for a diverse audience of young people, organizations serving youth, rites of passage practitioners, nature immersion guides, educators, social justice activists, and seekers from every stage of life, Rites and Responsibilities is a brilliant resource. Including examples from her own life and the stories of others, Darcy outlines the human developmental process, how trauma and displacement happen from a lack of rites of passage, and how to uncolonize from the western worldview.
As both a spiritual guide and practical workbook, Rites and Responsibilities includes exercises for knowing the self, essential mindsets for initiation, new possibilities for cultural identity, tools for mentoring and other supports, creating personal rituals, the importance of ancestral connection, and facing the complexities of late-stage capitalism. With an emphasis on bonding to nature and learning from First Nations, this guidebook weaves the values of cross-cultural protocols and collective liberation with finding our special roles and skills, and embracing healthy relationships, both with people and the land.
To step through the gateway into adulthood requires the preparations as outlined in this important book, and this transition can happen even in our later years. True adulthood means taking on a path of service, adopting the practices of the authentic, or initiated life, and holding a deep understanding of our connectivity to Beloved Community, both human and other-than-human. Embodying the ancestral wisdom of rites of passage is essential in this era of massive change, and Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up will take us on that journey of transformation.
As both a spiritual guide and practical workbook, Rites and Responsibilities includes exercises for knowing the self, essential mindsets for initiation, new possibilities for cultural identity, tools for mentoring and other supports, creating personal rituals, the importance of ancestral connection, and facing the complexities of late-stage capitalism. With an emphasis on bonding to nature and learning from First Nations, this guidebook weaves the values of cross-cultural protocols and collective liberation with finding our special roles and skills, and embracing healthy relationships, both with people and the land.
To step through the gateway into adulthood requires the preparations as outlined in this important book, and this transition can happen even in our later years. True adulthood means taking on a path of service, adopting the practices of the authentic, or initiated life, and holding a deep understanding of our connectivity to Beloved Community, both human and other-than-human. Embodying the ancestral wisdom of rites of passage is essential in this era of massive change, and Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up will take us on that journey of transformation.
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Pegi Eyers is the author of "Ancient Spirit Rising:
Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community"
an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural
competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon.
Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community"
an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural
competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon.
