(the following piece was written by Bob Sabath, a man who has been deeply involved with the work with Illuman in the US since he did MROP in 2006. This was the closing witness at Oracle 2020, a recent virtual gathering of American men involved in the work of the Journey Of Illumination. It is a valuable reminder…
I will let you in on a secret: I have a time machine. I love to travel in time, back to when Australia was one of the most rural populations on earth, about 120 years ago. It is now one of the most urban nations. In our cities, we have lost some sense of the continuity of our…
When I was a young man, I spent nine months living in the Philippines. One day, I stood on a hill above a slum in Mindanao in the south of the country and looked out at abject poverty, spread out as far as the eye could see. I recall being overwhelmed with sadness that so many people were…
March 29, 2020Brothers around the world,Honoring our Council practices, we write to you from the heart and we will be lean of speech!Twelve men from seven countries hosting work inspired by Richard Rohr’s teaching and M.A.LE.s, have formed a Global Wisdom Council which aims to weave together our common aspirations to re-ground masculine practice to truly serve our…
Australia’s biggest social experiment is not Married at First Sight (that’s not an experiment at all, obviously). It is our new normal, something we have never imagined. Monks have a little known fourth rule in addition to poverty, chastity and obedience. It’s stability, as in, staying put. Don’t leave where you are, ever. It seems easy compared to…
(this is a transcript of a talk given by Richard Fay, CEO of the Centre for Men, at the “Amplify” conference in Brisbane, on Saturday 7 March 2020). The Jesuits recently commissioned research in Australia on the attitudes and behaviours of men aged 18-30. It involved an online survey of a representative sample of 1,000 young men from…
In late July this past year, on a clear, cold winter night, I sat on the west-facing precipice of a still warm cliff, waiting for all the light to wash away. I had enjoyed the silent company of several others, who gradually retreated to camp as the darkness pressed in. Still, the sky held court, lilac giving way…
Terry did his MROP in 2001 at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. He has been involved in doing men’s work ever since. “I went home from Ghost Ranch enlivened and energized but there was no place to plug into anything remotely like my MROP experience. Within 6 months I planned and carried out a rites of passage for…
The first poem I heard of Rumi’s is perhaps his most famous:Out beyond all ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field.I will meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.Which is why I’ve tried to stay mostly silent these past few months on the…
