Basecamp for Men E122: Archetypes for Men

E122 Archetypes for Men with Special Guest James Rapson

 

E122 Introduction

Throughout my journey as a man and leader in the field of men’s personal development, one particular approach has stayed with me over time: the use of male archetypes to help men on their Hero’s Journey, whatever path that might be for each man.

It was how I was trained as a young man and I have had a love affair with these archetypes ever since. As the philosophical backbone of the Mankind Projects New Warrior Training, work in these concepts have continually provided a forward path with upward movement.

The use of archetypes has many dimensions, as the great philosopher, author, and therapist Carl Jung helped us to understand. Archetypes can bring us into mythical and transcendent realms where the collective and personal intersect. They also act as a diagnostic lens where we can read what is happening in humanity be looking in any direction: inward, outward, personal, or collective. Once your inner eye starts to focus on myth and archetypes, you start to see with new vision. A new vision that is full of magic and possibility as to where we are going and how you might properly play your role.

Archetypes are great for enlarging the context. For making the conversation bigger. The larger the context for our unfoldment, the more excited I get. With that in mind, let’s go have a conversation about male archetypes with our friend James Rapson.

E122 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed that conversation as much as I did. If working with male archetypes is interesting to you, I happen to emphasize this approach in my coaching practice.

I currently have a Life Renewal Program for Men that helps you work with these four archetypes plus the archetypal Hero. I love working with this framework and I can certainly help you create them as powerful tools for whatever transition or challenge you are facing.

If you are interested and want to get started or are just curious as to what this would be like, I offer the first session for free, no strings attached. This is a way for you to see how you might benefit and if working with me is in alignment with you and where you want to go as a man.

 

 

 

 

Basecamp for Men E121: Leaning Into 2022

E121: Leaning Into 2022 with Special Guest Claire Morency

 

Hello listeners, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season and are off to a good start to the new year. I got a much needed rest and am off and going here with season four.

2022 will certainly be an interesting year. More and more people are waking up. Even the most positional of us are starting to realize, shit, I think they might be lying to us. If you still can’t admit this, it’s ok. I‘m not judging you. However the Truth is coming and can’t be stopped.

To me, the pandemic is essentially over. Done. It has lost all steam and credibility. I talk to all sorts of people from all different backgrounds and political stripes. People just don’t give a shit any longer. Omicrom….a mild variant with no deaths. We’re supposed to stay afraid? I don’t think so.

I have been watching along with you, all the people (fully vaccinated) who are testing positive for Covid. This fact alone will wake up a lot of people. The vaccinations are not preventing people from getting or spreading the variants. It was never designed to do so.

2022 will be the year of letting go for many of us. Silo‘s like Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative, vaxxed/unvaxxed really don’t mean much any longer. It seems that, as Americans, we have a unique opportunity to finally transcend all that has kept us bound and separate. We are Americans. We stand for a set of principles-freedom and liberty being front and center.

Do you like your liberties? Your freedoms? Good! So do I and I don’t care where you are on the political spectrum. I will make you a promise. I won’t box you in and turn you into a cliché if you can afford me the same courtesy. I respect you too much to put you “over there” and label you ignorant. We will all arrive at the mountaintop together. Some are marching straight up. Some are taking a circuitous  road. All good.

What will happen in consciousness in 2022? Where are we at?

What myths will serve us in this next year? What will BFM explore? These are exciting questions for me. My role in our awakening has gradually come into greater focus. I am to keep a meta-narrative of WE THE PEOPLE at all times. If I deliver an uncomfortable Truth, I am to pull back to see the bigger picture. When people are triggered and in fear and denial, I am to give them space to work it out.

I am very optimistic for 2022. There will be many things unfolding, some of which will be jaw-dropping. Is this the year the Great Awakening hits its stride or reaches its apex? Is this the year Americans come together to strengthen our Republic? Time will tell. One thing is for sure. We are rapidly moving towards something that will forever change the way we see the world and ourselves. Are you ready? I am.

I would like to start with an intention. That 2022 is a year like no other for you. This is the year that Truth finds you and does its magic. That you find the resources to make sense of it all and that you and your family are protected and assisted by the Divine at all times. This is the year that humanity transmutes its fear into something that elevates us. And that this is the year we all sense our essential Unity and make our collective and individual choices based on that realization.

Let us all step into the next chapters of our Hero’s Journey boldly together. I am with you. Here we go.

Claire Morency Bio

Claire Morency is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Conscious Language Instructor and Body Language translator, a natural teacher and facilitator of health and wellness. She acts as a bridge to specific, clear, and insightful wisdom, coalesced by more than 30 years of education and experience. Here is my interview with Claire Morency.

E120 Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed our interview with Claire. Hypnotherapy has always existed in those in-between spaces for me. Meaning that because it addresses your sub-conscious mind and how you use language and self-talk, it has the power and ability to effect positive change in the area or areas that you are struggling with. I think it could be an important tool in your toolbox as you look to transform what may be stuck.

And Claire has graciously given Basecamp listeners a generous discount. If you are ready for a change and want to get started working with Claire, simply email her at https://clairemorencyhypnotherapy.com and mention Basecamp in the email and she will discount your first session by $50. I am planning on working a bit with Claire in 2022 to see what hypnotherapy is like and see if I can shift some old mindsets that no longer work so well.

Thank you for listening. It’s good to be back!

 

Basecamp for Men E120: Season Three Wrap-Up

E120: Season Three Wrap-Up

 

E120 Introduction

Well Basecampers, we have come to the end of season three. I hope you have been finding value in the episodes. Today we have a Firestarter short format with no interview. I really enjoyed season three. I feel privileged to be able to meet all these great people and bring you something different with these conversations. And I know that sometimes you and I are not in complete agreement on something and I want to thank you for giving me space to explore and express certain ideas and themes. I hope I am giving you space as you express your concerns and viewpoints and hopes about where we are going as a tribe.

There is so much going on in the world right now. There is a lot of people waking up. I will continue to do my best to hold and present a meta and mythic viewpoint for us. I invite you to join me in creating the new narrative. It is my belief that 2022 will be an astounding year for us. Our collective awakening is quickening and events will certainly come fast and furious in the coming year. Let’s continue to help one another make better sense of it.

Basecamp for Men E117: Cryptocurrency

E117: Cryptocurrency with Special Guest Erin Cobb

 

E117 Introduction

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. This is THE watercooler talk all over the world right now. Can you sense that? Why has this topic become so relevant, seemingly overnight?

As a long-time equity investor, I have an active interest in markets and trends. That and I like to know what the hell is going on! So in late 2019 I bought my first cryptocurrency, dipping my toe in the water to the tune of a few hundred bucks.

I then continued to do more research. Then I dipped another toe into the waters. Then I did more research. And now I have my whole foot in. And I continue to do more research. We are all just learning about this new technology and new platform and how it will impact us.

With just 3% of Americans currently holding cryptocurrency, we are still very much in its infancy. I can see a not so distant future where that number will be 30% and growing.

My intention with this episode is to pique your interest and to perhaps break down some barriers to entry into this fascinating world. I thought if you could hear my guest and I share our journeys and how early it is for cryptocurrency and blockchain, that this will spur you to start to roll up your sleeves to do your research. And perhaps, when the time is right for you, to push a few chips onto the table and state ”I am in” for this new paradigm. Enjoy the episode.

Erin Cobb Bio-

I have been looking to do a first episode on cryptocurrency but I was waiting to find the right guest and I found him.

Erin Cobb is a friend, entrepreneur, and blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor. He sat down with us to help us better understand this emerging paradigm that everyone seems to be talking about. Here is my interview with Erin Cobb.

Basecamp for Men E115: Elderhood and the Legacy of Men

E115: Elderhood and the Legacy of Men with Special Guest Paul Dunion

 

E115 Introduction

I was thinking yesterday about the Journey of the Soul. The DESCENDED path, as it is often referred to. My guest today speaks and writes beautifully about this road.

The Descended path runs counter to everything about our Western culture. Collectively, we tend to push forward with technological progress and quest for more, more, more. More speed, more improvement, fast results, fast information, fast internet speed and blah blah blah. Everything has to happen 5 minutes ago.

The Soul doesn’t care about any of this. Not one damn bit. The Soul wants to marinate, to meander, to get lost, and to slowly figure things out. All the people I know who have a largeness of Soul carry this expression with them. It is such an attractive quality in people. Those that speak from the Soul.

It’s interesting to me that all of the New Age talk and books are about Ascension. The Ascending Spirit. It is easy to see why. The dynamic of Ascension has an escaping quality to it. As in I am tired of all this suffering and I want to help lift us (and myself) out of this place. I think both dynamics are probably important. At least that is my hunch. The spirit and lightness of ascension and the earthy, authenticity, and truthfulness of the Soul.

I think again and again of the Grail myth here. The Grail speaks wonderfully of the descended path. Remember, Parcival (the Hero of the story) was unable to heal the Fisher King‘s wound and restore the Kingdom until he did his inner work in this descending path. He needed to become humble, which is a derivative of humus, which means earthy, feminine, unsophisticated. In short, Parzival needed more Soul. Or I should say, he needed to do the work to contact and express the largesse of his own inner experience.

How many of us are at this point in the Grail story? We took whatever tools we had and arrived at a place to heal the ailing King. But none of us knew what to do. The story shows us that Parzival (ourselves) had more inner work to do. The DESCENDING path of the Soul. This is where we start to meander. To notice the depths in ourselves and those around us. Nature starts to have an incredible beauty and interconnectedness. The Descended path starts to awaken our inner mystic. The part of us that needs to feel a bit lost and confused in order to properly arrive at our destiny.

If we are to grow into elderhood and properly mentor the good men that are younger than us, as well as awaken the archetypal King, then this path of the Soul will need to be walked and brought into clear focus for future generations. Remember, there are mystics and teachers that will arrive at our shores who have not yet been born.

It is important for men to do this inner work, as my guest today speaks about so eloquently. Let’s go talk to him about the path of the Soul, meandering, and the importance of mentorship and elderhood.