Essential-Man.com launched today, October 5th, 2010 @ 12:42am.
Men in America, and possibly in other countries, are facing decline of purpose. As women are increasingly doing a wonderful job of stepping into their power, and taking on what once were thought of as masculine roles (provider, leader, father), men are increasingly facing existential questions. These existential questions (Who am I?, Why am I here?) are natural, yet rather than being answered internally, corporations, politicians, media, and others use this space to fill it with their products and ideologies.
Men have gone through many phases. Renaissance Man, for example. Today, it seems to me men are in the “Fashion Man” phase. Men are caught up in the external world of trends. It’s the next profit motive, derivative scheme, clothing line, or product to consume. Men have gotten caught up in the external, the world of fashion, so much that they’ll even wear the sports jersey of another man in order to be another man of value. As if who he is inside is not enough. This is NOT the essential man. It is the accidental man, the expendible man.
Essential Man is the next phase of evolution where men as sourced in something vast and indescribable. It’s not a return to the past and some glamorized fashion statement of what men were, their clothes or possessions, or according to films and ad campaigns. It’s not a return to roles! It is stepping forward into the 21st Century Man and his unique, individual contribution to the world from his deepest essence of truth.
He is both coming from the deepest essence of what it means to be a man and is essential to the evolution of the planet. And partner with women in the 21st Century awakening of the human spirit from centuries of unconsciousness.