Have you begun to Thrive yet? Since we spoke last time where I explained what causes us to live in survival mode, we identified that the shift from survival living to thrival living is a matter of pattern interruption. We have to interrupt the patterns established...
So, we have identified that The Magician Archetype is the Archetype responsible for creating the survival patterns in our minds. This is because the Magician Archetype essentially is a metaphor for our minds. Not to be confused with the full scope of our psychological make...
Let me be vulnerable and express where all this came from for me. You're right, I read the text books, Hollis, Gillette and Moore, Boothroyd, Bly and many others. I reached for Rod Boothroyd's book Warrior, Magician, Lover, King updated for the 21st century in...
I think about the statement in the beginning of Lord of the Rings; ‘and once again the race of men failed’ and I’m struck by this almost taken for granted theme that men will be unreliable. The bible has a verse that says, ‘woe to...
I framed the title of this article as a question, because I feel the jury’s still out on this one. Why? You may ask. We’ll while at face value we admit ‘no man is an Island’ and a self made man is myth. Behind every...
As we continue to explore the question of ‘Who am I?’ The question I must ask is; ‘how much work are we prepared to do to get to the bottom of our identity?’ I remember reading in Robert Bly’s book Iron John which is a...
The ‘Who am I?’ question goes deeper than you think. In our present climate, people are doing a number of different things to try to get to the bottom of their identity, from DNA tests, to surname research and in the process re-evaluating and excavating...
What have you discovered as you explored the query, ‘Who Am I?’ has yourself revealed more of themselves to you or are you still confused. If confused I would like to suggest this is not a bad thing at all. The reason I say this...
David Deida in The Way of The Superior Man states from the beginning of his book that a man needs to find his purpose if he is going to be trustworthy. He goes on to explain that ‘If we are willing to discover and embrace our...
I really believe we are all here for a reason. I was in a rundown area today not far from where I live and I witnessed a fellow swaggering along and shouting in a hostile tone to people he had been interacting with. He was...
