Experts On: Initiation, Purpose, And A Man's Way Through Chaos

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Talking points: purpose, initiation, adversity, grief, culture It isn't always easy to find a sense of purpose or meaning in life, never mind feeling initiated into maturity. In these chaotic times, it gets even harder. This is a special compilation episode featuring four masters of finding humanity, clarity, and meaning in life. Their combined efforts have helped legions of people get a better handle on life and all of its twists and turns. Two of them are people I revere as elders, and three work with men and purpose on a regular basis. Featuring ideas from... -Lion tracker, coach, and storyteller Boyd Varty: https://boydvarty.com/ -Depth psychologist Francis Weller: https://www.francisweller.net/ -Culture activist Stephen Jenkinson (unreleased material!): https://orphanwisdom.com/ -Writer, teacher, and coach Rainier Wylde: https://www.rainierwylde.com/ -Purpose guide Tim Corcoran: https://www.purposemountain.com/ (00:00:00) - Boyd Varty on the role initiation plays in a man’s life—and what happens without it (00:16:20) - Francis Weller on why we need to (but can’t seem to) handle the unknown, failure, and grief (00:25:45) - Why the soul needs failure to find meaning, and how Francis runs grief workshops (00:30:35) - Given our current times, what does it mean to be a “generative ancestor”? (00:33:05) - Stephen Jenkinson on what defines and gives meaning to your humanity (00:39:47) - Rainier Wylde on how to find a sense of purpose in chaotic times (00:55:27) - Tim Corcoran on how to practically define purpose, and what’s often in the way (01:05:29) - Where does the “soul” fit into all of this? *** Henson Shaving brought this episode to you! No more nicks, no more cuts—and no more subscriptions! Go to https://hensonshaving.com and enter MANTALKS at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. (Note: you must add both the 100-blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply.) Build brotherhood in person. Join a Men's Weekend Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think what you're saying is, I don't know if I've ever heard it framed that way, but it's so accurate.
0:16.3	You know, there's some kind of transmission that we receive around being around other men, specifically within
0:22.6	the context of nature, you know, and when we get ourselves out of the sort of corporate environments
0:27.9	or the city dwellings and into this sort of like raw and primal environment, I think the way you said
0:33.4	that there's, there's this like you're a part of a hidden conversation, I think, is what you said before.
0:39.1	And I think that we as men yearn for that in some capacity. So I would love for you to talk a
0:44.5	little bit more about what role do you think initiation plays within a man's life? What do you
0:51.1	think maybe is the side effects of not having that initiation? And then what are some of
0:57.6	the important elements that you received through your initiation? Because it's not like you went
1:03.5	through maybe a few of them. Yeah, I mean, it's certainly the case. I mean, one is a few things
1:09.6	just happen when you go into nature. The first is that
1:13.0	a real life sense of consequence becomes directly tangible to you. And when that, and you know,
1:19.9	for example, when I was 10 years old, my father and I went out to Hunter and Impala and we found
1:27.4	ourselves lying on a termite mound and I took a shot in the Impala. And we found ourselves lying on a termite mound.
1:29.9	And I took a shot and the Impala sort of scattered.
1:33.1	My father said, stay here.
1:34.2	And let's just see if that animal has gone down.
1:36.4	And while we were lying there, you know, I felt this movement across my leg.
1:40.5	And I looked down and there was about a three meter black mumbo crawling over the back of my leg. Oh my gosh. And I grabbed my father and said to him, shit dad, there's a mamba. And I knew snakes. I was about 10 years old. I said to him, don't move, don't move. And he looked around thinking I had seen it somewhere and he sort of went, where is it? I said, don't move. It's honest. And we lay there
2:01.6	for about three minutes as the snake crawled over us. And I remember looking across at my
2:06.5	father and he had blood coming out of his mouth. He was biting the inside of his cheek so
2:10.4	hard that the blood had started to flow. But in that moment, and I think of that snake as an
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