Understanding the Wounds of the Masculine and Opening Your Compassionate Heart
As a writer, I became interested in understanding the plight of men back in the nineties when Robert Bly, Sam Keen and other men who pioneered the Men’s Movement began to write and speak up. I was curious and it fascinated me to read books like Fire in the Belly and Iron John. It also helped me to begin to have a better feel for how men suffer in this culture. I had already been studying the mythology of the goddess and women’s spirituality trying to piece together why everything has gone so wrong. I began to do research and read many of the early women archaeologists and scholars like Maria Gimbutas, and Riane Eisler, looking for answers as to what had happened to cause our culture to become so different from the way it had started out so many thousands of years ago. I remember after doing the research how upset I felt about these hordes of invaders who rode over the Russian Steppes and conquered whole civilizations that had been peaceful and pro...