An initiation, or more correctly, an initiating experience, is some event which proves to the person receivingthe initiation that other dimensions exist and that they are much more than just a physical body.

Before going further, let's discuss how people became "deinitiated" in the first place. The classic Adam andEve creation narrative is a good story to illustrate this concept: Recall that, in the narrative, Adam and Eveare placed in a perfect environment which provides for all their needs. What is the initial state of this humanpair? The original state is that Adam and Eve relate to each other as Souls only. Even though they now havebodies on the Physical plane, they do not notice them. Souls have no sex so, as Souls, Adam and Eve areequals and see no difference in each other. Now, they are cautioned, essentially, "Everything here is perfectand it will stay that way IF you do not ask for the knowledge of good and evil." The "knowledge of goodand evil" is a single facet of "the knowledge of duality". Adam and Eve now live in the created worlds whichall exist in duality. They are oblivious to this fact now because they do not have the knowledge of theconcept of duality at this time. They only relate to themselves and their surroundings at the Soul level, whichis beyond duality. In this state, all the interdimensional gates are open to them and they could, if theyrealized it, leave at any time and return to their home above duality in the Spiritual planes. Of course, theyjust can't resist being curious about this forbidden knowledge. Once they have the knowledge of duality,they no longer relate to each other as Souls and now notice that they have bodies which are not quite thesame so they immediately cover themselves. The interdimentional gates have closed and so, now, they are"Spiritually dead". They must accept the created world of duality as their only reality. So, according to thenarrative, the struggle of man, as a "fallen creature", now begins. Consequently, when masters giveinstructions to their students, they try to get the student to reverse this original "mistake" by controlling themind and attempting to return to the original quiet state where the mind is a singularity and has not "spreadout" or "run out" all over the place to explore the duality and all the interesting phenomenon it offers. Thestudent must realize that these are illusions which have stopped his spiritual progress. Once this concept ismastered, the interdimentional gates will open once again.

There are many ways to become initiated. Some people do not need to be initiated because they are able toretain the Astral knowledge and the active link to the Astral world after they are born in a physical body.However, for most people on Earth, a sort of "veil" closes and they forget their past. An initiating experiencepierces through this veil and restores the broken link.

In a world dominated by commercialism where global communication is commonly available, it has becomepossible to accumulate considerable wealth by offering, in some fashion, to "sell spirituality". Any type ofinitiation that you have to pay for likely has no validity. "Proxy initiations", where someone you don't knowand have never met claims to have spiritual powers and then sends "representatives" all over the world togive initiations in his name are invalid. Just giving someone a "secret word", "secret chant", or "secret book"is not a valid initiation.

Since legitimate Spiritual personnel are not interested in materialism, they are not easy to locate in a worldwhere people are generally made aware that something is available through advertising. Also, a legitimateSpiritual master [SM-1] will not have a large group of students. This is because, to do a competent job, themaster must be accessible. The student must be able to physically find him and have a meaningfulrelationship with him. If a student has a problem, the master must be available to give the needed assistance.