The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul; Martin Prechtel, Long Life, Honey in the Heart (2004), and one I have yet to study deeply, Bill Plotkin. These men all stand out as too important to not mention. 4 I am very pleased to stand with others who wish to uplift Rites of Passage ceremonies. Youth Passageways (.org) follows good council. So many spiritual rituals have elongated from Indigenous threads. Many of those did not lay down their threads as my Ancestors did; Indigenous Peoples are the original teachers and are being well respected by the efforts of this umbrella organization.