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The Middle East Crisis: an Animist Perspective
The Middle East Crisis: an Animist Perspective We commune and fall into reverence and relationship with the Natural World in our community. We don’t find our spiritual connection outside ourselves (without), nor do we petition the bearded tyrant in the sky with fear & trembling in favor of promised afterlife prizes, nor do we use…
Read MoreWhy Men Try To Control Women
What is this great obsession by men globally & historically to control, use and abuse women? From genital mutilation, child wives, burkhas, honor killings to laws regulating women’s choices surrounding her body. It’s important to note that male dominance is not the natural state of a human society; to the contrary, human society was matriarchal…
Read MoreWhat is Shamanism?
What is Shamanism? I like to call it “The Old Way” – which is nothing more than a method of training to develop certain capacities inherent in human beings. This is what makes “Shamanism” – a Tungistic / Altaic word from Northern Asia meaning Knower or Practitioner – universally descriptive. Yes, there are possibly…
Read MoreMissing Nutrient In Masculinity
“Why can’t he feel me?” Because he can’t feel himself. Man’s inability to feel into others has its roots in their stifled capacity in being receptive. Many are missing a vital nutrient that comes from being open and receptive. This lack of sensitivity is a byproduct of a body and nervous system that have been…
Read MoreFather Wound & Why Boys Need Men
Many come to men’s work with wounds inflicted upon them by the masculine, specifically a father wound. They come to this work to heal such wounds and alchemize their relationship with the masculine. The journey to healing this wound is unique for each man, and it starts by trusting our masculine containers for our feminine…
Read MoreRedefining pain & triggers as touchstones to deeper intimacy
Beneath every behavior there is a feeling. Beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause. Not the symptom.
Read MoreFear of the Feminine
Fear of the feminine and the Amazon fires was written in 2019 and is more relevant now more than ever. Men throughout millennia have attempted to dominate or control Nature in some form or another. Instead of standing in awe of her majesty, he has crumbled in fear and trembling at her feet resorting to…
Read MoreThe Burden of The Masculine
Getting in touch with and allowing the full expression of the unapologetic wildness within a man is paramount and points to his ultimate desire for freedom. Freedom, not in the sense of being single or if in a relationship wanting to “be free” but free from his “burdens “, and in reality once he gets…
Read MoreA Man’s Passage to Purpose; Unearthing the Gift in the Wound
The work of exploring the wound is not an easy path, yet if we don’t have the courage to turn and face our wounds, we will spend a lifetime running from them. In turn, they will run our lives unconsciously, and we may never know our greatest gifts.
Read MoreSex, Impotence and Finding The Warrior Within
Part of me no longer felt like a man. Up until the moment my injury happened, I was a vital, twenty-four year old man. I was six foot three, one hundred ninety-five pounds, athletic and handsome. Suddenly, I was about four foot eleven in a wheelchair and had no sensation or function in my penis, my bladder and my bowels.
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