This is the practical guide - as opposed to Bly's intellectual analysis - of male initiation. It's about a group of fathers who sat down and made the masks, wrote the scripts and told the stories and worked with their sons through a process of initiation.
It is a candid and at times awkward look at the processes and difficulties involved in taking the relationship with your son seriously. There are some excellent passages about mothers, written by the moms' and the attitudes of the sons to the bizarre ideas of their fathers is amusing. What would you do if at the age of twelve your old man turned up outside your school dressed as a cave man, wearing a mask and beating a drum? Quite.
There is a section by the boys themselves, a poem and a number of example questions. There is lots of mud, masks and in hindsight, fun. If you've got a wood and a yearning and a son, send off for it.
The book can be obtained from: Transformation Press, Box B, 197 Bonview St., S. Francisco 94110. U.S.A.
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