The ManKind Project New Warrior Training Adventure Protocol

Context Presentation Guidelines

Empowering Intent:
Add a cognitive understanding to the experimental learning as the initiates proceed through their initiation.

Energy Embodied:
Knowledgeable, respectful explanation

Process:
In some centers the presenters memorize and recite the "New Warrior Context". To memorize this piece usually requires actually understanding it, which is what we want because this means, "embodying" it. It certainly may be read slowly with appropriate pauses if presenter truly understands it. A conversation with a leader or senior staff man may prove useful in enhancing understanding. Presentation: It is essential that you understand the metaphysical archetypal, healing, mission content and the flow of the material. Offer an explanation, with intonation and pauses appropriate to sharing information. Men need the information, not theater. We empower here with the information. We want the men to understand it, as best they can, each time they hear it. "Context" means a frame within which to view something. Here we present the New Warrior Initiation Adventure in the context of how reality works. Men get a quick, relatively neutral, scientific look at how they create their own reality. And perhaps even more empowering we offer a doorway into the archetypal power of healthy, universal warrior energy. From there they can easily see this power grounded in healing and a mission of service. Overall men feel invited to explore the adventure of higher consciousness, together with this body of men. Repetition: The New Warrior context introduces the initiates to what we do and the essential principles of our work. As a visionary organization these ideas may likely be ahead of their time and challenging to understand. Therefore we present this exact context 3 times during the weekend. This maximizes the possibility of men truly understanding it, which empowers them by grounding the cognitive with the experimental learning.

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New Warrior Context

Reality starts with what we know. In our reality what we know is physical matter. In the reality of our physical world, physical matter exists. Physics is the study of physical matter. Recently, physicists have discovered scientifically what some ancient philosophical systems and religions have claimed for millennia. Namely that all matter is the same stuff! We now know scientifically that all matter is light energy and that the differences in the matter we experience are the result of light energy vibrating at different frequencies: Dense matter like rocks, steel or earth = Slow vibrations; Faster vibrations = air, water and flesh. With the matter that is my brain, I seem to have the ability to hold and manipulate the stuff, that light, the matter of the universe, in such a way as to mold and create my perception or the universe. Because my reality, my universe, is to me as I see and feel it to be. My reality is as I imagine it to be. My universe and I are utterly interrelated. There is nothing that can separate me from the universe except me. My thought and my belief in my thought create my reality, my universe. As the creator of my own unique reality, I am essentially alone in the universe, as I know it. The paradox is that I am a social animal, and as a social animal I cannot exist separate from you. Therefore, we must agree on at least some of our shared universe, and because this is so, we are co-creators of our shared reality, our culture. Ultimately, however, who I am with you is my choice, a decision I make. For thousands of years, we men have been warriors. As warriors it was our role to protect women and our community. Unfortunately, as technology and the ego self developed, warriors became soldiers - - destroying and dominating in the service of a tyrant King. The word "warrior" came to represent those who needed to dominate and destroy to feel superior. Today, our planet cannot tolerate the soldiers of fortune, raping her to make themselves feel powerful and important. The old warrior/soldier is obsolete. The transformation from the old to the new has begun. The new warrior has a new mission. Today, right here, we are the co-creators of a new way of being for men. Deep in our bones and balls we are still warriors. It's in our genes passed down from father to sonfrom father to son. However, with our developed brains, we can make our mission new! There are men we know as models of the New Warrior. Men like: Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela. Perhaps there's a man in your community who lives a life of extraordinary courage and vision.

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A vision is always ahead of its time and usually unpopular, because mankind resists and fears change. That fear can make it dangerous to be a visionary. The New Warrior lives on the cutting edge facing that fear, in order to manifest his vision into our universe. Who I am in relation to you is my decision. If my personal mission transcends the old dominating way of being, it will, by nature, become a mission of service. How I choose to serve is my personal mission. And that mission determines who I am in relation to you and the other creatures with which I share this reality, this planet, and this universe. Transformation - moving from one way of being to another, often means facing the shadows of the past. The hurt and pain of the past can be healed. That healing comes from the heart, from emotionally authentic experiences of releasing judgments and forgiving. With the past healed, and my mission in focus, I know I can relate to you with unconditional love. The child I was, believed that the world could be that way. The man that I am knows that the creation of that reality begins with me, and it grows with each one of you who will co-create that vision with me. When enough of us believe in the vision and live our lives through our personal mission, we will create unconditional love as the reality of our universe. We can do this.

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