What is the masculine soul, and why does it matter?

Modern men are conditioned from a young age to suppress their innate vitality and joy, stifling their ecstatic exuberance. As boys, this wild jubilation is shunned as being “too much” or “too feminine.” Consequently, this fully human, colorfully alive boy’s natural design, his “soul,” has nowhere to go but to hide deep in the recesses of his psyche. Now an outwardly mature man, this inner imprisonment robs him, his loved ones, his community, and his culture – of the rich beauty, generative strength, and purposeful vocation he carries potently within.

The screams of the inner boy are consciously refused for decades until the inevitable mid-life crossroads, where a man can consciously suffer and endure the necessary pain to recover and accept his nature, his soulful golden boy – or refuse, with often dire and dangerous consequences for himself and the world.

Rediscovering the lost masculine soul has tremendous political, environmental, economic, and psychosocial implications. It is one of the most urgent individual and collective tasks facing the well-being and future of the planet and our human species.

However, a man cannot do this work alone. He needs a brother in soul, an initiatory guide, a spiritual sherpa who will push him to his existential limits – a Tyler Durden.

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