Sublime

Modern society has created new standards for success. Thousands of years ago, it was necessary for a man and his family’s survival that he be physically powerful. Possessing a combination of intelligence, masculinity, and potency was the standard of success. In biblical times and later, kings, rulers, and leaders were often involved in physical fig

Many European naturalists and philosophers came to the conviction that the female was closer to nature, while the male was more rational. He was capable of taming nature. European intellectuals imagined a transition from savagery to civilisation, from irrationality to rationality, from immorality to morality, as humans were shifting from being gove

Before you can become the Warrior, you must become the Beloved Son. And in order to truly become the Beloved Son, you will need to reclaim your heart. That is the first mission that will find you and every man: the dangerous and glorious mission of getting your heart back. Until you’ve accomplished that, anything else you attempt is moving out ahea

The masculine heart responds most fully when aligned with a mission to advance freedom, including financial, artistic, or spiritual freedom.

SOURCE #1: COMMUNITY Communities in the past possessed a shared vision of masculinity. They provided ceremonies to mark a boy’s passage from adolescence to manhood.

It was the idea of a “pathless path,” something I found in David Whyte’s book The Three Marriages. To Whyte, a pathless path is a paradox: “we cannot even see it is there, and we do not recognize it.”⁠1 To me, the pathless path was a mantra to reassure myself I would be okay. After spending the first 32 years of my life always having a plan, this k

It only takes a moment of meeting a real challenge to bring a man back to full purpose, an emergency or a…

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Unfortunately, embracing the pathless path means accepting that you might not know what you are doing and you might look like a fool. This is exactly how I felt in those first few months. But luckily many people have gone before me. I was guided by people like Morrie and Mitch Albom, and others, like Rebecca Solnit, who showed me that getting lost