#36 | Video Games, Violence and Healing the Shadow Lover - Eivind Skjellum
“What you’re watching on screen is supposed to play out in your real life - and it may not be quite as epic, but there’s an archetypal resonance inside you.”
My guest today is Eivind Skjellum, an expert in the field of archetypes and masculine psychology.
He is also the founder of Reclaim Your Inner Throne, a three month program aimed at guiding men through an initiatory framework of transformation.
In our conversation today, Eivind shares about his earlier challenges with chronic fatigue syndrome, and how that forged his creativity to craft the Inner Throne framework. We discuss our childhood experiences with video games and their impact on our mythological worldview, as well as the dangers of young men left in the underworld where isolation can turn to rage.
And finally, he speaks of the importance of male mentorship to model a life of purpose and service to the world, which is ultimately the hero’s quest young men crave.
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SHOW NOTES
Locking eyes with a moose
The origins of Reclaim Your Inner Throne
Dealing with chronic fatigue syndrome
Magicians and Lovers
The boy in the basement playing video games
Mythological vampires shadow quests
Incels and fear of the feminine
Misogyny as failed differentiation from the Mother archetype
The infamous Gillette Ad
Parsifal’s mother
Masculinity needs tempering and mentorship
The gifts of video game mythology
Zelda and the Triforce
Understanding the Healthy Lover
The need to disassociate from the archetypal Feminine
Navigating rejection
The alchemy of men’s spaces
