Doing the Ashes Work
Brutal American Podcast
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The Season of Eating Ashes
From virgil to dante to dumas, the greats have understood a major thematic element in the story of masculinity. And that's this dece into hell. This is a part of every man's masculine journey if he is to make it, and to make it well. We must do the work of eating ashes, as robert bly says, we must enter into grief and death. Edmond dantes: The descent into hell is essential for men like joseph who goes wrongfully to prison,. He's robbed of his fiancee, mercedes, right? He meets the father the abbe feria.
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