By popular demand we’ve been approaching some books like Iron John so I thought I would look into it myself and found a brilliant write up. Seriously, you don’t even need to read the book with these notes but there’s a link for a free audio book. Anyways, here’s the link.

https://www.neilstrauss.com/neil/on-iron-john/

We’re looking primarily at Initiation, boundaries, and reclaiming our inner King which hasn’t died but is unclaimed because the warriors guarding it have been dead. A major part of this book goes into detail about those warriors. During your adolescence you may have put your warriors to sleep, unconsciously, in order to survive in a spiritual hostile environment. There’s no bad guys here, only wounded souls bashing one another for fear or depression and thus the cycle of abuse continues generation to generation. It’s our job as men in this age to be the fathers we aspire to be. The son, our father didn’t get to see.

I believe in order for you and me to revive our warriors and reclaim the throne we need to ask for what we need. It doesn’t mean you have to ask out Suzan right away. It doesn’t mean you have to get laid if she comes to your house. For most of you that’s not a good idea because your frame is so shabby crack addicts live upstairs but you wouldn’t know that because you never went up there to clean your room! (Jordan Peterson has been asking us to clean our room. Is it any wonder we despise him?)

If your own Father or Mother has repeatedly stepped over your boundaries as most do in dysfunctional families and as Robert Bly asks, is there any other? We must learn our throne is waiting for a King and if we remain slaves to outside influences. So video games, porn, psychological attacks, verbal attacks, basically all of these are the same because they keep us away from peace of mind.. If your brother has the power to take your peace away it means you gave it to him. Remember, mother fucker? NO PEOPLE PLEASING. It’s right there in the link I shared. So get it together. You’ve got to get it together.