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In reply to the discussion: Romney's Equal Pay Answer: Two Solid Minutes of FAIL [View all]Volaris
(10,270 posts)where he feels that his masculinity needs to be wrongly SUBORDINATE to the women in his life that he loves...that can be REALLY BAD. There are things that a mother should NEVER do to their son(s), and one of them is to use them as the emotional outlet that rightly belongs to an Adult Male Partner-Equal. It can REALLY fuck up a boy's psyche to feel that he is an emotional or Psychic Husband to his own mother. I read once (maybe in the book Iron John) that after the adult initiation ritual had been completed, Cherokee? boys NEVER again looked their mother in the eyes. Any request to the mother was passed through a family member. This IS an extreme example, but supposedly, it made Cherokee(?) adult Men absolutely fearless across all aspects of their lives, and not just in battle.
Tell the older one he needs to start putting together a big-picture understanding of how The Universe works and interacts with itself, it goes a long way to Objectivity, and THEN he can begin to understand his place IN that greater Universe. The first thing boys got told in the Old Rituals, was how everything came to be, their relationship to The God's, (their own divine spark made manifest in their minds), and what then was expected of them. Again, OBJECTIVITY is key. It's a damn hard thing to feed your offspring if you feel un-necessarily bad for the Wild Game you have to keep killing. There DOES have to be a certain recognition of the cruelty of it all, but that's why almost EVERY primitive culture told the dead deer "Thank you, for the gift you have given me."
Humility
Humbleness before the power of the Universe (and your OWN power to alter that Universe to your own ends)
Gratitude for your own life, short as it is
and a deep, but objective LOVE for All Things, even the ones YOU have no particular use for or interest in.
These are the spiritual Underpinnings of a well-developed Male. These are others (the ability to understand what to fight for, for example, and the skill to actually undertake those Battles, and be good at fighting them).
(Jungian Archetype psychology helps as well, as a way to understand the differing "parts" of your own head. Also, have him take the free internet version of the BMTI test. For a long while, I thought (I) was the one who was kinda messed up in the head, I couldn't understand why things that everyone else just seemed to know or "get", I simply didn't or didn't have any need for...now I know it's because of my particular personality type, and that has helped A LOT. I don't feel bad anymore about the things I'm not naturally good at, I see them as things that just need more practice before I master lol.)
Not that it matters, but where are you geographically?