King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we need.

His control is, first of all, over his mind and his attitudes; if these are right, the body will follow.

The characteristics of the Warrior in his fullness amount to a total way of life, what the samurai called a do (pronounced “dough”).

The Magician, then, is the archetype of thoughtfulness and reflection.

There’s a saying in psychology that we have to take responsibility for what we’re not responsible for. This means that we are not responsible (as no infant is) for what happened to us to stunt us and to fixate us in our early years when our personalities were formed and when we got stuck at immature levels of masculinity. Yet it does us no good to

may be into pornography, seeking the Goddess in the nearly infinite forms of the female body. Some men under the infantile power of the Mama’s Boy aspect of the Oedipal Child have vast collections of pictures of nude women, alone or making love with men. He is seeking to experience his masculinity, his phallic power, his generativity. But instead o

All the products of human creativity and human interaction are like the iron filings. We can see something of the shapes and patterns of the archetypes through these manifestations. But we can never see the “energies” themselves.

we have to take responsibility for what we’re not responsible for.

For every child, from a developmental point of view, Mother is the goddess and Father is the god. Boys who are too bound to the Mother get hurt.