Where are our "Wise Men"- our "Initated Elders"

Today I read in a book the question I have been secretly asking myself  for many years only I could not articulate it so clearly. "Where are the initiated men of power today" I for one need the presence of a strong initiated elder in my life as friend, guide and teacher. I am lucky, I have Tom Cowan, a spiritual man who has integrated the powers of spiritual wisdom, knowledge and active leadership. Unfortunately, to have such a guide is rare in our contemporary world.
At this time we are facing a crisis, power and wisdom seem to have become associated with greed for power and status, our leaders are immature and behave like children having tantrums or worse being bad boys. Where are the Men ?. At this stage in my life I look around for the company of mature, strong, wise and indivduated men who have been initiated into the world and themselves. Generally our modern world lacks the ritual of  intitiation for boys, girls men and women. Intitiations now ome through association with gangs, the military or other forced systems such as prisons. But these forms of intiation lack the power and ritual knowledge and most of all the Skillful Wise Elder.

This is a call to all those Wise Elders to stand up and show yourselves we need you, we are a people lost bewildered and in crisis.