Iron John: A Book About Men

by Robert Bly

He prepares matter.

The Wild Man is a friend of Sophia.

Wild Man leads the return we eventually have to make as adults back to the place of childhood abuse and abandonment.

The Wild Man’s qualities, among them love of spontaneity, association with wilderness, honouring of grief, and respect for riskiness, frightens many people.

Crazy Jane and Cuchulain are the risk takers, those who would rather go to Hell if it were lively than to live comfortably in Heaven.

The aim is not to be the Wild Man, but to be in touch with the Wild Man.

The Wild Man is part of a company or a community in a man’s psyche,

whole community of beings is what is called a grown man.

I see seven of these beings so far.

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