Where is Your Flag?
by Doug Eadline
The Penn State story has been a constant headline in my local paper. I live in eastern Pennsylvania, so this coverage is certainly not unexpected. Often times, I cannot read all the details of the alleged events that took place in “Happy Valley.” My heart goes out to those boys, because if true, many were selected and groomed as victims due to their socioeconomic status.
CONTEXT FOR GUTS
Our work in the ManKind Project is powerful, very powerful. Some of us, as we move further away in time from our own New Warrior Training Adventure, tend to forget how dramatic “The Hero’s Journey” is for uninitiated men on Saturday afternoon. But what is even more important is how profound, how life changing, doing this work really is. We are giving men the initiation they never got. Turning adults into men, fulfilling a crucial gap from their boyhood. The sacred context of this work is poetically articulated in the following submission to the MKP Journal by an Elder in our community and a veteran of twenty years of work in the ManKind Project.
Reality presented as Story
by Ravenspen
The human mind, is, above all else, a storytelling mechanism. Because of this, many people retreat into story when the world of objective facts overwhelms them. They want to perceive reality in a way that makes sense to them. Rather than insisting on dividing story from fact, one novel concept is to use story to present facts, providing real information in a comforting context. This approach has been used by Dr. Zachary Meisel and Dr. Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eric Erickson: The Life Cycle
Ken Gilbert talks about Elderhood.
Erik Erikson – Developmental Psychoanalyst
Stage 8. Late adulthood (from 60 years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Ego Integrity vs. Despair
Ego Quality: Wisdom
Main Question: “What kind of life have I lived?”
As we move toward the end of our lives, if we can look back on good times with gladness, on hard times with self-respect, and on mistakes and regrets with forgiveness then we will find a new sense of integrity.
Building a Community: Mike Brown interviews Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan
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Mike Brown, New Warrior and Spiritual Life Coach for the past nine years, interviews Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan.
Bill Kauth co-founded in 1984 the New Warrior Training Adventure of the ManKind Project, the Inner King Training and the Warrior Monk. He is the author of “A Circle of Men”, published by St. Martins Press. In his role as “Visionary-at-large” with MKP, Bill has been studying the state of the world for a dozen plus years.
New Warrior Wisdom for Surviving the Snow – WWLP News 22
by Boysen Hodgson
Frank Grindrod, a New Warrior from Western Massachusetts, part of the New England Community and a Member of one of the two longest running men’s groups in New England (the Special Boys) was featured in a spot on a local TV station WWLP 22 News with information on what to have and what to do if you’re stranded in your car this winter.
Hard Wired Humans and Face Value
Here is a piece from the December human instincts newsletter, Hardwired Humans.
The makers of the movie Happy Feet Two spent significant effort on the facial expressions of the animated penguins. According to the animation director, There is incredible detail put into the micro-movements around the eye, the movement of the eye itself, the dilation of the pupils, the movement of the head, and the slight pursing of the beak; just to tell you “Mumble” is a thinking character. (Sydney Morning Herald, 19-20 November 2011)
The power of vulnerability
A TED Talk by Brene Brown
The Screaming Nice Guy
by Matthew Alexander Sloane
I took part in a workshop recently: about 18 women and 12 men played in a very interactive, energetic inquiry as to the nature of sexuality and how it lives or does not live in each of us.
In one moment, our brilliant facilitator noticed that there was a “men vs. women” dynamic showing up in the conversation, so she invited us to make it more real and play it out. All the men stood on one side of the room and all the women on the other. “Let out all the judgments you have about the other sex — say it to the people across from you now!”
A New Warrior Reflection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2012
A Reflection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day – the New Warrior and cultural change.
by Boysen Hodgson
“Agape is more than romantic or aesthetic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape is creative, understanding, redemptive good will for all men. It is an overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that this is the love of God operating in the human heart. When one rises to love on this level, he loves every man. He rises to the point of loving the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. I believe that this is the kind of love that can carry us through this period of transition. This is what we’ve tried to teach through this nonviolent discipline.” ~ December 18, 1963, the Speech at WMU
The Search; a poem
Agape 1
THE SEARCH
I’ve seen death daily in expected and wonder-full ways
and tasted its sweet coolness on fevered tongue
dipped of earthen flow streaming through granite cups
my image caught there returned to me
slaking heart more than thirst.
Oh! Yes! Father Sky!
I have fed at our Mother’s bosom
fed of her thrill of thrills
LIFE GIFTED BY DEATH
make of me such fodder.
Mike to Mike: Mike Brown interviews Mike Robbins
Mike Brown, New Warrior and Spiritual Life Coach for the past nine years, interviews Mike Robbins, teacher, coach and author of “Focus on the Good Stuff” (reached #4 on the Amazon bestseller list) and “Be Yourself” (reached #17 on the Amazon bestseller list). Robbins’ books are available in a dozen languages.
A former pro baseball player in the Kansas City Royals, Mike transformed the experience of a career ending injury into a period of powerful self reflection leading to a discovery of the healing power of appreciation and authenticity, finding the deeper meaning and purpose of his life.
Weight Release Begins with Seeing Our Reflection Clearly
by Freeman Michaels
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Before and After
In mid-2007, when I was 275 pounds, I looked in the mirror and what I saw shocked and disgusted me – in a little more than ten years I had gained 100 pounds. I wanted the extra weight that I was carrying gone as quickly as possible. I was filled with shame and anger at what I had become. I understood that I had abandoned myself on many levels, and the imbalances of my personal priorities were being reflected in terms of weight.
Jim Channon: A New Warrior battling for Planet Earth
Jim Channon, a master architect for a sustainable world, became a New Warrior in 2008. The creator of the First Earth Battalion mythology, he has worked with both major corporations and the U.S. military to create strategies and vision encompassing his thirty year life focus for saving the planet from human destruction. His storytelling shamanistic persona has been portrayed by actor Jeff Bridges in the film “The Men Who Stare at Goats” in which the character of Bill Djanko is modeled after Channon.
Elder Blessing in the Family
by Terry Jones
When my oldest son reached the age of 18 years, I felt a need to release him. I had been aware only at an intellectual level that I would need to let him go someday. It felt like he was ready not so much to be an adult but rather to be honored as a boy who was ready to consider adulthood. My wife and I planned a ceremony that would bless our son and show our respect for his individuality.
Living the gift community – a 6 year old’s wisdom.
Andrei Armeanu is a New Warrior (a man who has completed the New Warrior Training Adventure sponsored by the ManKind Project). His daughter Sabina has an idea of the kind of world she wants to live in and the kind of person she wants to be in that world. The ManKind Project helps already awesome men like Andrei become even better fathers, partners and culture creators.
I’m ready to live in Sabina’s world – and doing what I can to make it real.
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