Traditional religious practice features rituals, initiations, and feasts. In particular masonic meetings are characterized by initiations and rituals. These include ceremonies for initiations, marriages and funerals. It is actually associated with shamanistic initiations and also with smith's world. Other practices&colon; Studying texts, receiving initiations and personal practice instructions from the teacher. Among Dianic Wiccans, Imbolc is the traditional time for initiations. Considering it a sacred forest, many went there for traditional initiations or for refuge. Final clubs are secretive about their election procedures, and they have secret initiations and meetings. Local gang members posed the specter of random slashings for gang initiations. Psychology experiments have also shown that initiations increase feelings of affiliation. Successive initiations are required to move through the various "konesans". Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel initiations. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel initiations. Minoan initiations and elevations are all conducted in single-gender circles. Eliade differentiates between types of initiations in two ways&colon; types and functions.