Tracking Lions

I’m reading The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life (podcast link) and I think it is a powerful read on this journey towards conscious masculinity. I am starting to see more of my work as a tracker. In the healing, coaching, and facilitation work, I keep aiming to tune into the track and where it is that it wants to take us.

I am trying to know less about “where I’m going” when I’m doing this work, but to know more about “how to get there.” It is about the path showing the way, from right here, from right where you are.

This powerful quote speaks to a primal way that too many of us have lost. It speaks about the way we learn and grow from being in each other’s company, from surrounding ourselves with those who know more. From being in the company of those who are learning along with us. And from our willingness to mentor those who are newer to our ways.

Mentorship in men is often a kind of transmission born of physical proximity; the teaching is not spoken but absorbed. For thousands of years, men danced and walked and moved together, taught each other the ways of nature. They slept under the stars and rested in the shade of old trees. They told stories and taught each other by being together, facing real danger together.

Men need these dimensions of wilderness and the unknown to know the more primal part of their own psyche and body.

Varty, Boyd. The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life (p. 32)

The “way” here is not a specific destination. The way is a way of tuning in, of learning to listen, see and sense what is unfolding before you, and to trust your animal self to guide you there.

We don’t learn this by ourselves. These are things we learn together.

I do look forward to a moment when we can be physically together. I have a sense it might come soon. Until then, see you in zoom.

Saludos,

Gibrán

PS In case you missed my newsletter (different from these BMP Notes), last week I shared a video of a session on Men, Psychedelics and Trauma, check it out!