You Have No Idea Who You Are
Recently, I watched the movie Crash. This was my fourth or fifth viewing of the film and it continues to impress me in its ability to emotionally engage me and to illuminate threads of my own prejudice and bigotry.
It’s just to try and work on the good bit of you. – John Lennon
In 1969 a young man snuck into a hotel room and got this interview with John Lennon.
Especially poignant to me … and resonating with the work of the ManKind Project and our circles is a short piece at about 2:00 minutes, where John says, “We’re all violent. We’re all Hitler inside and we’re all Christ inside …”
Black Swan – incredible insights into shadowland
EDITOR’S NOTE: I include this in **the Door** section of the Journal because of the pervasive use of profanity – which I personally admire, but which may offend some folks reading the journal. And the question to look at with this posting? How have you engaged with the ‘Dark’ feminine in your life? What shadows have you become aware of connected to your interactions with women – especially in the realm of seduction and sexual ‘conquest’?
The Gold-Light Path
by James Hanny
In most anything a Man encounters or desires, he has a choice upon which road to traverse. And in that destination, he chooses one of two essential directions in which to flow his decisions—to release and direct his energies.
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One path taken is guided by his shadowy, dark fears.
It appears to be, and he perceives it as, the real fabric of his experiences.
This illusory path was configured from the legacy of his youth by the labors of shadow figures echoing within him; then made believable by the investment and attention of his own energy.
Through sheer mental projection, or by sheer attraction, this path is filled with ominous shadows, tricksters, and miscreants.
From his dark recesses, he may summon demons, monsters, the darkest of fellows, or wicked Sirens.
Psychoanalysis: The forgotten grandparent of The ManKind Project
by Joe Jeral, MD
Psychoanalysis is the father of psychotherapy as we know it today. Every form of therapy, even an overtly non-therapeutic personal growth experience like MKP, owes its existence to Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In the nine years since my first MKP weekend in 2001, I’ve noticed that few people know about the forgotten psychoanalytic “grandparents” of MKP.
Actually, the emotional, psychological and spiritual work in MKP borrows significantly from Freud and his intellectual descendants. I’d like to introduce some of these grandparents and some of the ideas that we have borrowed.
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