Realigning Masculinity with Thriving Life
What is masculinity?
Is it a social invention designed to oppress many for the benefit of a few? Is it a toxic flaw in the character of men? Is it dangerous inherently harmful, and needing to be dissolved?
Or is masculinity a noble inheritance from the primordial patterns of nature & the collective unconscious? Is it an achievement and a necessary gift for the tempest of these times?
Or perhaps, as indigenous grandmother Pat McCabe has remarked: “we don’t even know what masculinity is when freed from the Power-Over paradigm.”
Instead, how might masculinity unfold in a paradigm of Thriving Life?
Listen to an remixed excerpt from the interview Thriving Life & A Prayer for All Men with Pat McCabe…
Many cultures have, and continue to look to the realms of mythology & ritual to guide and initiate the vast energies of power, eros, and the sacred.
In this spirit, The Mythic Masculine is a mixed-media endeavour which includes a Podcast, Essays, Immersive Events & Online Courses that aims to realign men & masculinity with their necessary and inherent place in the web of all our relations.
Masculinity needs the right soil to flourish.
Hi, I’m Ian MacKenzie.
I’m a filmmaker & writer who founded The Mythic Masculine in late 2019 after stumbling upon Iron John & the echoes of the mythopoetic men’s movement.
This has been a deeply personal journey as well as a collective gift to the polarization that plagues much of the conversation on masculinity.
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