Awakening The Sacred Masculine At The Turning Of the Ages

As has most often been the case in my life - or as I choose to acknowledge it - I always seem to be in the right place at the right time ... and after moving to Sedona in 1996 to attend the School of Energy Mastery, so many new doors swung open for me to explore and grow through.

In 1997, the Awakening The Priest Process was the prototype men's circle taken from the woman's process designed by Nicole working with women stepping into their Sacred Feminine power and presence. She had been holding and co-creating circles with women for many years compiling her Awakening The Priestess information from a long, rich life of self discovery and applied it to activating women's Sacred inner strength, confidence and personal awareness.

She in turn, brought this same structure to our initial men's circle, guiding us seven men through a nine month gestation process to awaken our Sacred Masculine consciousness. It was here I first learned about co-creating Living Ceremony and the primary archetypal themes playing out in my life and those of us who entered his journey of profound and primal self discovery.

By getting in touch with our deep masculine belief systems, childhood conditioning and cultural overlays inherited from our fathers, we began to see how we were the living by-products of the pre-conditioned attitudes of the masculine mass consciousness. It became obvious we were all largely unaware of how the core attitudes we held about ourselves and our world had were all formed by those before us. Our sense of self-worth and lack thereof as men were intimate reflections of our inherited masculine belief systems.

It also became painfully aware of how much work it would take to dig out from under the avalanche of our unconscious masculine conditioning. I quickly recognized whenever you question and challenge the long accepted norm, in whatever accepted form, the inertia built up is a bloody considerable force to redirect. 

As a man undertaking the task of awakening to the Sacred within my self, the enormously huge amount of encrusted stuckness within the masculine mass consciousness was, to say the very least, way overwhelming to face, let alone attempt to shift.

It felt like trying to steer the Titanic away from imminent collision, holding onto a rope from a rowboat attached to the prow of the ocean liner. A whole lot of paddling going on to pull that badboy from hitting the iceberg up ahead. 

Of course the perfection in the awakening process is that only though our own individual struggles, trial and tribulations does the Divine enter our lives and live more powerfully upon this Earth. Each and every one of us makes a significant difference for the rest of us by what we do to evolve, grow and develop in our apparently small lives.

However the Soul contracts play out now, those of us men who are choosing to face the entrenched belief systems and accepted way we have behaved throughout history, the weight of our collective conditioning is breathtakingly considerable. It takes King Kong balls to stand up and face the discordant music of our masculine mass consciousness, all in hopes of changing the patterns that have largely contributed to how fucked up the world is today.

... to be continued ...