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In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a seventeen-year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths.

This is an initiation, and an initiation is a rite of passage. It is a journey of crossing the threshold from an old way of being into a new way of being. Initiations, like rites of passage, mark a major shift from one life stage to the next. Oftentimes initiations are prompted because you feel like something is off in your life and you know you have to make some big changes if you are going to feel aligned, congruent, and on the right path for your soul.