by Julie | Dec 16, 2013 | Soul Searching
Any good rite of passage has 5 main components 1. The Call. Most men at some point in time feel a longing to go through something hard, to taste danger, death, and the unknown. If you have ever felt that longing, it is what Joseph Campbell describes as “the call to...
by MB50 Team | Jun 7, 2013 | Soul Searching
Rites of passage are activities and rituals to recognise, enable and celebrate the move from one life stage to another. We can see a faint vestige of this currently for teenagers finishing secondary school. Traditional tribal cultures placed great importance on...
by MB50 Team | May 20, 2013 | Soul Searching
Jeremy is a charmingly modest man who wouldn’t sing his own praises, so I’d like to do it for him. He is one of the MB50 Core Team of facilitators and guides. To give you a flavour of Mr Thres, it may help to describe where he lives: a rambling cabin on Dartmoor, at...
by Alan Heeks | Mar 13, 2013 | Relaxation and Meditation, Soul Searching
Hazel Hill is a magical 70-acre wood near Salisbury, which I have owned since 1987. It has been an amazing catalyst for vision, healing and lots more, for me and many other men over the years, so I’d like to share the story with you. This will build on the previous...
by MB50 Team | Jan 3, 2013 | Soul Searching
Living our future out : brilliant insights This is a situation where I’m delighted to admit to bias: I have loved The Who and their music since they exploded into my life in the Sixties. I have regarded Pete Townshend as a genius since Tommy, and his book provides...
by MB50 Team | Nov 27, 2012 | Soul Searching
Let’s be bus drivers! Taken from Good Medicine, the website of Dr James Hawkins: It can be useful in a whole series of ways to think of ourselves as bus drivers. We are in charge, driving the bus of our life, but we also have a whole bunch of often unruly passengers...