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I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in rites of passage or transformative initiation.
Though it is written for men, the people I've received the most feedback from have been the women I've recommended it to.
It's like a handbook for the male mind.
Though it is written for men, the people I've received the most feedback from have been the women I've recommended it to.
It's like a handbook for the male mind.
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Fri, January 6, 2006 - 11:05 PMHas anyone read this book? -
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Sat, January 7, 2006 - 1:25 PMI have not, It sounds fascinating. -
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Sat, January 7, 2006 - 2:23 PMIt's one of my 3 personal ''bibles'', since I don't read the one other people do anymore. -
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Sat, January 7, 2006 - 2:34 PMId love to hear more about it.
can you give us a litttle overveiw? -
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Sat, January 7, 2006 - 3:46 PMSure. The author's focus on the lost rites of passage between boyhood and manhood. They use digestable examples for stories and movies to show the different stages of initiation and also the components of the same.
One thing in particular that will interest you is there analysis of "Monster Boys"; emotional boys trapped in grown mens' bodies. They get into the Jungian archetypes of the King Warrior Magician(Priest) and Lover as well as the dysfunctional 'shadow' forms of those archetypes.
It was the first book that could explain to me why I was constantly getting the shit kicked out of me in school. The more immature boys around me could smell that I was more adult-like in my psychology, and it scared them.
I'm curious to know what any of you think about this book should you read it. Great initiation material.
Faust
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Re: King Warrior Magician Lover
Wed, April 5, 2006 - 8:10 PMI loved that book!
Except the bit were they expreseed derision about Prez. Jimmy Carter...when he was spooked by a rabbit swimming next to him in a rvier....sheesh, who wouldn't be spooked by that?
I gave this book to my brother in law, (couldn't get the husband to read it) and his three sons....none of them read it either.
The other book I love is by Michael Meade...The Water of Life, I think it is called.
There's a women's group going around the country teaching women about men...and the stages they go thru...the page (kid), the Knight who cannot be criticized for anything as he forcusses his all on finding and establishing his carreer ... he kinda just needs a very patient mommy who gently asks the right questions..the King, a man secure in his powers and realm, whose counterpart is a queen who may be a mom, but she sure is hell aint his mommy...
The explanation of why not to criticize a man is because men are hard wired to protect and they must stay strong and intact at any cost..."selfish" that way as a biological imperative. Men do not yield to criticism except at great cost to their spirit. That information sure knocked me for a loop.