masculine Archives - Sam Sleeman

A deeper look at Jack the Beanstalk and Iron John for our youth.

20 March 2020 Sam Sleeman 2387 Views abandoning our soul, building community, Castle Quo, child, child redemption, children, dealing with giants, educating children, empowerment, enriched, father redemption, feminine, Finding what we are capable off, for storytellers, forgetting who we are, giants, healing and sovereignty, killing giants, life's purpose, masculine, missing fathers., purpose, Redemption, Rites of passage, Sacrifice, secrets, Status quo, weaklings

Across space and across time, between here and Castle Quo (read the status quo) – I hear the anguished cries of women and children; I hear the complaints of men, I hear the cries of our planet, the spaceship earth…

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Jack and Bean Stalk Chapters 03 The back story.

19 January 2020 Sam Sleeman 957 Views Abandoned families, backstory, Castle Quo, Child headed Families, children, Finding what we are capable off, for storytellers, masculine, men going their own way, MGTOW, Migrant labor, missing fathers., Nuclear families, redemptive moment, secrets, Shadow, shame, soul retrieval, wasteland, why storytelling

The back story of Jack, his widowed mother, his father and of course the Beanstalk. And how the Giant fits into all of that

Aubrey Marcus Painting ©️ Wojciech Siudmak

Poetry

A man asked his heart. What are you afraid of?

1 December 2019 Sam Sleeman 2520 Views death., defective, despair, discrimination, fear, Finding what we are capable off, for storytellers, giants, invulnerability, loss of soul, masculine, protection, Wounds

“What are you afraid of?” The man asked his heart. The heart did not reply. “There is no one out

Essays

When the Father is absent.

4 October 2019 Sam Sleeman 1200 Views assurances, code, differentiated consciousness, discrimination, foreknowledge, invulnerability, James Hillman, masculine, Masculine discernment, missing fathers., prayer, protection, the axis mundi, The Hero's Journey, The Rag and Bone shop of the heart, tradition, undifferentiated consciousness, Viable senex, When the Father is absent

There are implications for our whole culture when fathering is absent. Fathering as a metaphor is absent at many levels. What then rushes in to fill the void left by this absence is violence and rage.

Jack and the Bean stalk

Jack and the Bean stalk Chapters 04 A Child redeemer story.

11 June 2019 Sam Sleeman 722 Views Castle Quo, children, ego, empowerment, Finding what we are capable off, giants, Jack and the Bean stalk, loss of soul, masculine, meaning, MGTOW, missing fathers., Shadow, Status quo, The Hero's Journey, wasteland

Giants!? Giant ideas that are swallowed without question. Co2 causes Global warming. Covid “It’s for your own good” History will judge all of that. Beware of the Giants, read the Giant stories. The half Giantess, Jack, and the Bean Stalk.

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Jack and the Bean Stalk Chapters 02 The narrative

7 June 2019 Sam Sleeman 1303 Views 0 Comments children, crone, feminine, for men, for storytellers, giants, giants wife, magic, masculine, missing fathers., mother, soul retrieval, stealing our birthright back., Tyrants, why storytelling

Giants and Tyrants abound in our world claiming and owning things that belong to all. Giants are not invincible, The Jack story describes the “How” of dealing with them