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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.