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What is men's work all about? · Council of Kings

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SPEAKER_00: What is men's work all about?
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SPEAKER_00: That's the subject for today, brother.
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SPEAKER_00: Greetings from the forest here in Germany.
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SPEAKER_00: Sending a lot of love to everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: What is men's work all about?
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Most men in the world still don't really know what men's work
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is,
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even though
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SPEAKER_00: In modern times,
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it's been a profound movement in the last several decades in
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which millions of men
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SPEAKER_00: have been involved.
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SPEAKER_00: There's been this great re-emergence of men's circles,
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SPEAKER_00: men coming together in spaces of truth to share from the heart.
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SPEAKER_00: to witness one another,
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SPEAKER_00: to give one another direct feedback,
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SPEAKER_00: to sharpen one another,
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SPEAKER_00: to do exercises together,
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SPEAKER_00: to go through leadership training and initiatory processes together,
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SPEAKER_00: to explore masculine archetypes together,
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SPEAKER_00: the king,
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SPEAKER_00: the warrior,
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SPEAKER_00: the magician,
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SPEAKER_00: the lover,
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SPEAKER_00: the father,
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SPEAKER_00: the sage, the inner child.
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SPEAKER_00: There's many different archetypes that we explore within men's work.
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SPEAKER_00: And on a deeper level, men's work reaches back to ancient times.
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It reaches back to tens of thousands of years ago,
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to our primordial ancestors,
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SPEAKER_00: gathering around the bonfire,
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SPEAKER_00: men gathering around the fire during a hunt to be together,
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SPEAKER_00: to speak truth,
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SPEAKER_00: to hold one another in sacred community.
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SPEAKER_00: It reaches back to ancient
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monasteries and orders of monks and men and different types of
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men's leadership and
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SPEAKER_00: men's service organizations where men came together in fraternity,
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SPEAKER_00: in brotherhood with some deeper sense of purpose,
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SPEAKER_00: of calling,
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SPEAKER_00: of shared mission,
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SPEAKER_00: a shared calling towards service and toward deepening
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SPEAKER_00: contemplatively, spiritually.
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SPEAKER_00: This has also been a very ancient,
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SPEAKER_00: current brotherhoods of men coming together to deepen spiritually and
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SPEAKER_00: contemplatively.
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SPEAKER_00: So men's work has its roots in those ancient threads.
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SPEAKER_00: And in modern times, as I said, it's been powerfully re-emerging
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SPEAKER_00: It's been a sizable movement for decades now.
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And what's beautiful about men's work is that it's really a
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wide open blank canvas.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes,
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SPEAKER_00: there are classic elements of men's work,
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such as men gathering in a space of truth together to speak
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honestly from the heart
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SPEAKER_00: about their lives and receive honest feedback.
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but really there's no limit to the different types of elements
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and exercises and
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modalities and retreats and possibilities that can be explored
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within men's work
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SPEAKER_00: spaces.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very limitless.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very much a blank canvas.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's a ton of room for innovation in this space as well.
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And that's been one of the most exciting things for me the last
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few years,
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is to really get creative and play and innovate in the men's
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workspace and explore
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many different ways of guiding men through deep processes and
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deep experiences
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SPEAKER_00: together that can help us holistically develop ourselves,
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SPEAKER_00: develop in terms of our
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SPEAKER_00: relationships,
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SPEAKER_00: communication,
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SPEAKER_00: leadership,
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SPEAKER_00: holistic health and well being,
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SPEAKER_00: our spirituality,
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SPEAKER_00: our alignment,
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SPEAKER_00: our career,
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SPEAKER_00: our vocation,
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SPEAKER_00: our purpose.
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SPEAKER_00: Men's work is uniquely a very holistic development system.
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SPEAKER_00: At its best, it is a place where men come to
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sculpt one another to refine one another to sharpen one another
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along all axes and
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dimensions of life as a man there is no aspect of life as a man
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that cannot be
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brought into an integral men's work container and that you can
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develop and work on
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SPEAKER_00: alongside your brothers and so yeah i'm making this video to try to
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demystify men's work to raise awareness of this incredibly rich
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and beautiful
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modern movement that taps into this ancient force and that is
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so powerful for men
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you know so many men nowadays feel deeply alone deeply
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alienated deeply cut off the
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SPEAKER_00: simple
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experience of discovering a brotherhood of like-hearted men
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like-hearted souls on
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the path of wisdom who are embracing the joy of growth together
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who are training
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SPEAKER_00: together to become leaders and to become
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shepherds stewards guardians on this earth to become the men
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that we can be is
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incredibly inspiring it's reconnecting it's heart opening it's
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an antidote for
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modern isolation and alienation and you know some men probably
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many men probably
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SPEAKER_00: ask themselves do i really need something like this
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SPEAKER_00: Is this a form of therapy?
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SPEAKER_00: Can I just power through this?
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You know,
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if I was a real man,
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wouldn't I be able to just live my life on my own?
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SPEAKER_00: Why would I need to be part of something like this?
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SPEAKER_00: And what I would say there is that joining a men's group,
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joining a men's circle or men's leadership organization is not
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about being broken
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SPEAKER_00: and needing to find something to fix you,
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It's about coming into a space where you are seen as
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intrinsically whole and you
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share in that wholeness alongside your brothers and you meet
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men who truly inspire
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SPEAKER_00: you,
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SPEAKER_00: who call you up,
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SPEAKER_00: who call you forward,
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SPEAKER_00: who see your potential,
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who see the king in you and invite you to step forward and step
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into that in all
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SPEAKER_00: areas of your life.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's not about wallowing in a sense of,
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SPEAKER_00: brokenness, and oh, we're these broken men who need this support group.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: sure,
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SPEAKER_00: there's some stuff like that out there,
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SPEAKER_00: and many such things like that can be incredibly beautiful too.
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SPEAKER_00: But the kind of men's work that I lead,
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SPEAKER_00: the kind of men's work that we have innovated in Council of Kings,
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SPEAKER_00: is much more about leaders coming together to discover
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SPEAKER_00: brotherhood to discover loving sparring partners who call them forward,
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SPEAKER_00: who refine them,
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SPEAKER_00: who shape them and sculpt them.
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It's about coming into a space where you embrace growth,
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you embrace the quest for truth.
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It's about coming into a space with men who are obsessed with
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finding the truth of
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SPEAKER_00: their existence and living that truth all the way through.
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So it's more about further evolution and training and
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contemplative deepening and
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brotherhood and connection with men who are already at a level
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of thriving in life,
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SPEAKER_00: who are already at a solid baseline in life,
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SPEAKER_00: but want to go further,
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SPEAKER_00: want to further enrich their lives,
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SPEAKER_00: want to further sharpen their sword,
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SPEAKER_00: want to discover
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SPEAKER_00: the blind spots they haven't noticed,
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SPEAKER_00: and the pieces,
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the little pieces and shifts that they've been missing that can
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click everything
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SPEAKER_00: into place on deeper levels and unlock their joy,
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SPEAKER_00: their calm,
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SPEAKER_00: their peace,
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SPEAKER_00: their radiance,
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their alignment on deeper levels so they can discover what it
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really feels like to
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SPEAKER_00: be breathed by infinity,
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SPEAKER_00: to feel like you're coming fully into alignment with the radiant sun,
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SPEAKER_00: of divine being and that you are shining forth from that and as that.
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SPEAKER_00: You're living from that.
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SPEAKER_00: Thy will is my will.
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SPEAKER_00: Thy will be done.
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SPEAKER_00: You're giving your life over to something greater than yourself.
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Because that is where a man finds the deepest meaning and the
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deepest freedom and joy in life.
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Believe it or not,
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is by taking the focus off of himself and placing it on how can
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I
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SPEAKER_00: give my life over to love?
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SPEAKER_00: How can I give my life over to truth?
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SPEAKER_00: How can I go deeper into truth,
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SPEAKER_00: into nature,
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SPEAKER_00: into earth,
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SPEAKER_00: into divinity,
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SPEAKER_00: into all-pervading vastness and symmetry?
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SPEAKER_00: How can I align,
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SPEAKER_00: harmonize,
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SPEAKER_00: come into congruence with that,
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SPEAKER_00: not as some floaty abstract la-la land
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type of thing but as a visceral embodied bare feet on the earth
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reality of me
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feeling in harmony with my deepest being me feeling present on
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this earth with the
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people I love me standing tall and strong feeling good about
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the man I am the man
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I've become the father I've become the husband I've become the
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leader I've become
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SPEAKER_00: the brother I've become the man who's capable of
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giving other men direct honesty and holding up the mirror if
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that's asked for the
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man who's capable of true connection the man who's capable of
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holding a torch and
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leading the way alongside one's brothers toward the more
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beautiful world our hearts
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know is possible toward a world where we move beyond war beyond
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violence where we
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SPEAKER_00: set the kids free and we explore
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SPEAKER_00: the higher co-creative possibilities that are available to us in life.
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Life does not have to be this endless roundhouse kicking
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ourselves in the face for
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SPEAKER_00: millennia on end,
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SPEAKER_00: like our species seems to be trapped in.
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SPEAKER_00: Life can be gorgeous flow and artistry and celebration and co-creation.
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SPEAKER_00: And so moving into
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the higher echelons of human wellbeing,
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that's what you start to discover.
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My wife and I like to talk about a scale of minus 10 to
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positive 10 in terms of human wellbeing.
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SPEAKER_00: And minus 10 is like suicidally depressed,
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SPEAKER_00: in total despair,
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SPEAKER_00: in a complete black hole,
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SPEAKER_00: the deepest depths of despair.
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SPEAKER_00: leading up to zero is like a pure baseline,
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SPEAKER_00: like you're neutral,
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SPEAKER_00: you're okay,
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SPEAKER_00: life's all right,
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SPEAKER_00: you're doing pretty good.
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And positive 10 refers to the highest states of flourishing
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available to human beings.
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SPEAKER_00: Not to say that there's no difficulty or challenge in these states, but
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SPEAKER_00: These spaces are characterized by ever greater depths of joy,
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SPEAKER_00: of communion,
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SPEAKER_00: of revelation,
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SPEAKER_00: of life becoming a prayer,
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SPEAKER_00: a poem,
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SPEAKER_00: a presence,
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SPEAKER_00: practice,
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SPEAKER_00: a sense of profound alignment,
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SPEAKER_00: a sense of effortless creativity and shining radiance,
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SPEAKER_00: coming into the fullness and wholeness of what you are.
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self-actualization and self-transcendence and rooting that down
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on this earth for
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the good of all becoming a pillar of the inmost love on this
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earth for the good of
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all so our brotherhood is inviting men toward those highest
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echelons of human
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flourishing those are real they are available they've been
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spoken of and pointed to
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SPEAKER_00: by great sages and saints
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SPEAKER_00: of all authentic wisdom traditions for ages.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're real.
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They're right here now and stepping into a space where you can
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begin to absorb that
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SPEAKER_00: type of frequency by osmosis from earthly and celestial brothers.
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Brothers who are rooted deep to the earth but also extend their
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branches unto the heavens.
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SPEAKER_00: Brothers who are shamanic, who
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SPEAKER_00: are mystical,
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SPEAKER_00: who've gone deep on the path of wisdom,
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and who are also leaders who are grounded in translating their
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wisdom into a real
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SPEAKER_00: direction on this earth,
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SPEAKER_00: a real set of skills and capacities on this earth,
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SPEAKER_00: projects,
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SPEAKER_00: organizations,
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SPEAKER_00: books,
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SPEAKER_00: albums,
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SPEAKER_00: performances,
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SPEAKER_00: possibilities.
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SPEAKER_00: Brothers who are inspiring to you,
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SPEAKER_00: stepping into a field like that can call you forward and call you up
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and allow your body your system to begin just by osmosis
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absorbing so much from
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those brothers that your life can begin to rapidly shift
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direction and even these
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even relatively small shifts when you when you measure that out
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over the long term
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you end up in a vastly vastly different space and so that's a
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lot of what men's
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SPEAKER_00: work and transformational work
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about to me it's about making those deeper and deeper shifts to
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come into deeper
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and deeper alignment so that when that alignment plays out over
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the course of the
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SPEAKER_00: next decades
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SPEAKER_00: you end up in a radically different space,
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SPEAKER_00: creating a radically more true,
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SPEAKER_00: more soul aligned legacy on this earth of beauty,
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SPEAKER_00: presence,
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SPEAKER_00: poetry,
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SPEAKER_00: and love than you would have otherwise.
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SPEAKER_00: And you do it alongside your brothers,
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sharing intrinsically valuable experiences of pure love and
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enriching connection.
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SPEAKER_00: And you holistically develop your life
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SPEAKER_00: along all dimensions and axes alongside men you respect.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the essence of the men's work that we do within Council of Kings.
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SPEAKER_00: So brother,
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I hope this has been an informative video giving you a greater
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sense of the lay of
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SPEAKER_00: the land in terms of what is men's work,
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SPEAKER_00: what are men's circles,
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SPEAKER_00: what are men's leadership organizations.
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And why would a man benefit from getting involved in something
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like that?
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SPEAKER_00: So thank you for listening.
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SPEAKER_00: God bless.
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SPEAKER_00: Much love.
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SPEAKER_00: Be well.
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SPEAKER_00: Many blessings always.
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SPEAKER_00: May the force be with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Take care, brother.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace.