Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show.

I'm Connor Beaton, and on this week's midweek and mini episode, I'm going to take a little bit of a different approach.

And I'm going to start talking about four archetypes from the

book, King, Lover, Warrior, Magician. And these four archetypes can be seen in our culture and through

movies, through books, through the hero's journey, through so many different pieces, but they can also be

seen in modern

masculinity. And one of the things that I find very interesting about these four archetypes,

well, first off, this is from the book, King Warrior, magician, lover, rediscovering the archetypes

of the mature masculine. And this is something, it was written by

Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. And this book has actually been out for a few decades.

It's not, it's not new by any means. But it's definitely a prominent one. So if you haven't read it,

I'm going to go through a few of the architects, going to go through all the archetypes individually.

This episode will focus specifically on the through a few of the archetypes, I'm going to go through all the archetypes individually.

This episode will focus specifically on the magician archetype.

And in the book, they actually start with the king archetype, but I'm going to finish with the king archetype because I think it's one of the most powerful ones and it's also one of the most important ones that seems to be lacking in our culture right now.

But anyway, these archetypes show up in a multitude of ways.

They are in the book, really, they talk about it being a part of masculine psyche.

They talk about the transition from boy psychology to men's psychology.

And it's really about the initiation, right? The ultimate goal is that we have done the work as

men to integrate these different parts of us and not to sort of get lost in the idea that we are

one only over the other, but that there is a journey

for each of us to start to discover these archetypes and energies within us.

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