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The most inspiring work in the world today is being performed by those who have undergone this initiatory passage, those who have returned with precious resources for a soulcentric or life-sustaining society. This is the descent of which Thomas writes, the mature hero's journey described by mythologist Joseph Campbell, the descent to the goddess po
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

If men followed this example and used the workplace as a setting to practice relational skills, building community, the male crisis around work could be addressed more effectively.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
So the issues of the exiled wildish woman are usually twofold: inner and personal, and outer and cultural.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

There, in that essay, Baldwin said, “A man is not a man until he’s able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from that of others.”
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
He senses that it is important for boys not to be captured by mothers, even by a mother as fine as this.
Michael D. O'Brien • Island of the World: A Novel
Parts are often frozen in past traumas when their extreme roles were needed.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
It is no coincidence that training as a bard, or poet, is the first layer of Druidic studies; it is the knowledge of and ability to create poetry which was so important.