The initiation

I'm with a large bunch of friends and people my own age and we have
arrived at the place where you get initiated.

There's this old lady dressed in elaborate costumes who looks a bit
like a fortune teller. She greets us and selects out of our group
three people who will help her with the initiations.

We don't exactly know what the initiation will do or where it will
lead us but we have all come out of curiosity. We are young adults
entering into a new phase of life and this initiation is symbolic of
stepping forwards: a rite of passage.

The three who have been selected out go through the initiation first and come back dressed in costumes. They become the guides to the old lady. Their costumes are very weird, they look like telly tubbies or something. (all one needs to put one off going through!)

Now we all line up in groups, and each group of about 5 or 6 goes
forward to meet the old lady and she then leads people through the
doorway one by one, asking each participant weather they are willing
to step into the unknown, and through the doorway. Once they have
stepped through changes will happen in their lives that will be
irreversible and there will be no going back once the initiation has
taken place.

Our group goes forwards eagerly and James smith, who stands in front of me is next to go up.

He is nervous and when he is called forwards and asked the questions

"Is it in your will, James smith  to go forwards through the door of
initiation, and step into the unknown and to embrace what may lie through this door?"

He steps back and has doubts. A lot of conversation follows between james and the old lady, and I start to think that he will not go through, that its not in his wishes.

The odd people on the side help him out.

One of them says something which makes him change his mind at the last minute

"For me this was a necessary step, I know its your own decision, but I am so glad that I did this."

This changes his mind, and he goes through the door and now its my turn.

All of a sudden I realise that I need to go to the garden. People think that I have chickened out of the initiation, but I just wanted to pick something in the garden. I come back sure enough, and go through the door without any hesitation, completely naked, with a big shining sword in my hands.

-

After the initiation everything has changed.

 I'm in this big house with lots of rooms. Its like a community building with lots of rooms. In one of the rooms I can hear a load of singing. These are Christian melodies I am hearing, but the words, they are all pagan. Its as if the Christians were all turned into pagans after getting initiated.