The anti-ideological nature of initiatory experience

Those who hold that social hierarchy has a purely rational basis operate on the basis of a  Just World Hypothesis.
I was also brought up to see the world in these terms.  They are quintessentially colonial terms by which one views reality.  That is where shamanism comes in.  It's teaches the opposite to this mode of valuation and hence imparts health giving insights.  One must overcome the neurosis of the Just World Hypothesis and stop reverencing the powerful and blaming the weak (and doing this in relation to oneself as well, so far as one considers oneself powerful or weak.)
Initiatory experience provides an entirely different basis for valuing oneself and for self esteem.  It confirm you as a valuable and fearless member of society on the basis of having looked the intimidation in the eye.

By contrast, those who do not understand the inner change that shamanistic initiation produces will continue to assert that if you've had to face your fears, there must be something wrong with you for having had them.  As we all have fears of some sort, this ideology shows itself to be inhuman and anti-human.