E211: Season Five Finale

E211: Season Five Finale

 

E211 Introduction

Well Basecampers, we have come to the end of Season Five. I hope you enjoyed the content the past 11 months. It was a good season, from where I’ve been sitting. I hope we provided some tools for your Hero’s Journey as well as fresh perspectives on everything that is going on.

I will be taking a few weeks off to enjoy the Christmas season with family and friends. Recharge for the new year and Season Six. We will be back with fresh episodes and a new season on either Jan 9th or Jan 16th, depending on the flow.

2024 is set to be an epic year for humanity. I think no matter what your views are on what is happening, most everyone can agree that there seems to be some very big things brewing.

Will there even be a 2024 Presidential election? I personally don’t think there will but you never know. Trump is poised for a return. What will that look like? Will the broader public start to get a handle on Devolution or Bitcoin? We will soon find out.

I was thinking about the next season and what I want to assist humanity with. One of the insights in the past few years that I would like to expand on is this idea of how we grow our capacity for Truth. We have been so conditioned to avoid it, haven‘t we. Stay comfortable, don‘t look or express uncomfortable truths, don’t rock the boat. What that leaves us with is a deep denial of what is happening and a particular form of naïveté. Many of the so called “normies” and I’m not calling you that, still seem to think that the gov‘t, or Big Pharma, or the WEF, or Bill Gates, etc etc would NEVER lie to you. It’s like holding onto your belief in Santa Claus, except your 50 fuckin’ years old now and call anyone that calls out the Santa scam a big ole Conspiracy Theorist.

Hopefully whatever is to come in 2024, Basecamp will help you skillfully navigate it. Our perspective will likely be the polar opposite of what you are hearing in MSM on damn near everything and that’s ok. My goal is to have you fine-tune your radar so you know what is going on. That you aren‘t part of the crowd that is so easily fooled by shiny TV lights and so called “experts” telling you what you need to know and what you need to do. We don’t need them anymore. It’s doubtful we ever did.

Today we have a Basecamp Classic for you. A good way to finish our season. It is all the way back at the beginning of Season Three with an episode titled The Quest for the Soul that I did with the great author Anne Baring. I remember being particularly proud of the episode as it seemed to set the tone for season three and Anne and I got along fabulously.

I would like to thank you for listening to the show and supporting us in whatever way you are able to: monthly and one-time donations, positive reviews on Apple Podcasts, and just sharing the show with the people that are in your lives. I appreciate the vote of confidence. And lastly, from my family to yours, I would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and may God keep you safe and the Light of the son Jesus Christ light the way on your Hero’s Journey. Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

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.