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Doing the Ashes Work
Season 1
Episode 86
Published 3 years, 6 months ago
Description
From Virgil to Dante to Dumas, the greats have understood a major thematic element in the story of masculinity…The descent into darkness. There must be descent. To find the golden branch of the ancient tree, men must descend into suffering, eating ashes, grief, death. Men must learn, as Robert Bly says, the season of “eating ashes.” We'll talk about that in today's episode.
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Notes:
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- Robert Bly, Iron John.
- Waller Newell, What is a man?
- Virgil, The Aeneid.