Men in Brotherhood: Introduction

Earlier today, I read yet another by now very tiresome to me re-telling of Donald Trumps recent expression of inner unresolved pain in the form of repeating the birther's claim that President Obama was very potentially born in another country. My mind drifted to all the various and pathological ways we men engage with one another in the world. Of course, the birther movement itself is filled with women as well as men who express this particular brand of psychological injury through what may at first appear to be a vindictive need to attack a specific individual--Barack Hussein Obama. I however know what is occurring is a simple disowning of something within that is uncomfortable and that discomfort is then being displaced or projected onto the American President. I know it comes from a wounded place rather than simply a place of trying to reveal the truth to people because of the vitriol that underlies most of it as well as the, for lack of a better word, plain ole energy of it all. It has the DNA markers of pain not a pure desire to enlighten. That DNA marker betrays any truly or potentially altruistic motivation, I believe.

Still, for some reason however, my mind went to the unconscious masculine specifically, whose actions I have observed so much in this life. So as all of this swirled in my head---the wars various men have started and sustained over the years, gang warfare, corporate madness, fear of The Sacred Feminine, school age bullying and such--my mind temporarily stopped. Soon an idea emerged. That idea was to start a series on this blog that celebrates the ways in which men strive for connection and brotherhood with one another rather than ways to destroy or cut each other down or apart. And so this series was birthed: Men in Brotherhood.

And so it is...