The crisis in mature masculinity is very much upon us. Men feel anxious, on the verge of feeling impotent, helpless, frustrated, unloved, unappreciated, and often ashamed of being masculine. Something vital is missing in the many lives of men.
For students of mythology and Jungian psychology, there is hope. The external deficiencies we face—absent fathers, immature role models, a lack of meaningful rituals, and the scarcity of ritual elders—can be overcome if we look within ourselves, and turn towards the archetypes of the mature masculine within our unconscious.
In King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette explore the difference between Boy psychology or the archetypes of immature masculinity and Man psychology or the archetypes of mature masculinity, as well as their shadow sides.
“The more beautiful, competent, and creative we become, the more we seem to invite the hostility of our superiors, or even of our peers. What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being.”
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⌛ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Absence of Rituals
1:55 Patriarchy
3:33 The Crisis in Mature Masculinity
6:00 The Immature Masculine Archetypes
7:07 Accessing The Archetype in its Fullness
7:42 The Divine Child
10:21 The Shadow of The Divine Child
13:00 The Precocious Child
13:53 The Shadow of The Precocious Child
15:40 The Oedipal Child
17:00 The Shadow of The Oedipal Child
18:40 The Hero
21:00 The Shadow Side of The Hero
22:13 The Mature Masculine Archetypes
22:50 The King
25:55 The Shadow of The King
27:24 Accessing The King
28:00 The Warrior
32:00 The Shadow of The Warrior
33:33 Accessing the Warrior
33:58 The Magician
35:58 The Shadow of The Magician
37:10 Accessing The Magician
38:12 The Lover
40:25 The Shadow of The Lover
42:50 Accessing the Lover
43:37 Techniques
46:08 Conclusion
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