Anemone (Latin: Anemóne), or Windflower, is a genus of plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). This genus includes about 150 species, primarily found in the Northern Hemisphere and in the temperate regions of Asia. Its pale, delicate (anemic-looking) flower petals seem lifeless. Therefore, it symbolizes the fleeting nature of life, fragility, and represents sorrow, grief, and death.
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Part 2 Even when the ritual character of initiation trials is no longer perceived as such, it is clear that a person cannot become themselves without confronting a series of hopelessly difficult, sometimes dangerous situations — that is, they undergo “torments” and “death” and awaken to another life as a qualitatively different, “reborn” person. If one looks closely, all human life consists of a series of trials, “deaths,” and “rebirths.” Indeed, for the modern person, “initiation” no longer fulfills its ontological function, because it is not perceived as a religious and consciously embraced trial; it does not lead to a radical transformation of the initiate’s life, nor to their salvation. Initiation scenarios concern the psychological and existential planes. Yet they continue to function, which is why we say that the process of initiation coexists with the life of every human being. (Mircea Eliade)
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Part 1 As some psychologists like to repeat, the subconscious is religious. One could say that, to some extent, in a person living in a desacralized society, religion becomes “subconscious”; it rests in the deepest layers of their being. But this does not mean it ceases to perform an important function in their psychic life. As for the elements of initiation, they can still be recognized alongside other structures of religious experience, in the imagination and dreams of modern humans. But they can also be identified in real trials a person must undergo — in spiritual crises, loneliness, and despair, which spare no one striving for responsible, conscious, and creative existence.
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