“RITES of PASSAGE”

The Masculine Rites of Passage are returning to the men of planet earth …

Rise to meet them.

I remember countless days sitting in school as a boy waiting for something I could never quite put my finger on… 

It felt like school was where I was supposed to be, but for some reason, it didn’t seem like I was being taught the things that mattered. 

So there I sat, waiting, like so many of us, and the boy became a young man, learning all kinds of things I would never use, longing for the real training I couldn’t put words to but somehow knew I desperately needed that would finally prepare me for my life as a man. 

That teaching never came.  

And so, like most men on this planet, I undertook the journey into manhood unprepared, ill-advised, and alone. 

Is it any wonder I struggled to the degree that I did? 

The unignorable truth is that no one teaches us to be men in our culture– 

No one taught our Fathers. 

Yet the expectations still fall on our shoulders. Our bodies may mature with time, but the boyish parts of us hold fast without “Initiated Men” to help us cross the most sacred and dangerous of thresholds. 

The loss of our Masculine Rites of Passage across this planet has helped produce the current “Crisis in Masculinity”, and the idea that masculinity is somehow “toxic”….

Whose fault is it?
What happened?
Who is teaching our boys how to be men?

How did we lose the most important and critical pieces of our cultural heritage and the means for making us men? 

Who broke our lines and conquered our people?

Who took these traditions from us by the point of a blade or bullet, through religious conversion, enslavement, or worse? 

We did. 
All of us. 
To each other. 
Over and over again.
It is time for this to end. 
The blame, the division; the divide and conquer… 
It is time for the men of planet earth to awaken, and arise again, together.

As men, our loved ones can no longer be asked to bear the weight of our unlived lives. 

We can no longer suffer in silence, holding in our emotions til the cancer arrives, or carrying the world on our back over thankless decades until our hearts give out and attack the one they’re meant to serve. 

The Masculine Heart is so good at its core. It needs something worth living for, something to give itself to fully, something ready for a love this big. 

A movement towards a life of deep purpose, honorable action, and living service is arriving to the forefront of the Movement.

Truth is, this Movement has already begun. This work is starting to spread. The fact that you now find yourself here reading these words says something, and it is an honor to offer an interpretation of this work, drawn out and down the line through several lineages that survived the long dark road of history. 

So then I ask of you now what was asked of me:

What man here among you is ready to leave behind the comforting warmth of the hearth and the skirt-tails of our Mothers to brave the cold and dark beside men of good standing; to test ourselves against the elements; to sharpen against challenge and each other as we learn to befriend the inevitability of discomfort that becomes the foundation for our greatest acts of service? 

Who is ready to join our forefathers on a path made by walking, led not by your betters, but by those who who are in the trenches with you, doing their own work to become the men they were born to be? 

Claim your manhood in a way that can never be doubted or questioned again.
By yourself or others.  

If you are ready for this work, it is ready for you.

The Masculine Rites of Passage are returning to the men of planet earth.
Rise to meet them.
Rise to meet them.