Modifies a noun

• sickness: The onset of initiatory sickness in tribal culture is recognized as a difficult, but potentially useful developmental process.

• journey: Like Sir Gawain, Yvon sets off on an initiatory journey which takes him into the Otherworld.

• experience: But he opted, or was chosen, to go through an initiatory experience as a shaman or magician.

• process: Now Earth seeks and is given Her redemption in a vast initiatory process occurring throughout the total body and life of the Solar Father.

• crisis: Conversely, the key to the initiatory crisis is to say " yes " to what is happening.