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Inside the Struggles of Modern Men: A Thesis on Challenging Times

Inside the Struggles of Modern Men: A Thesis on Challenging Times

Introduction

We are in 2025 with thousands of years of experience Behind us, billions of men have live out their lives all over the world, and yet Everything seems confused about what men are supposed to be like.

And to Add Further Mayhem and Insult Some of the Most Ill Equiped, Ignorant, and Backward Men On The Planet Are The Biggest Media Voices Explaining What I is to Be a Man To The Latest Generation of Young Men. This, by the way, has Always Been True Through Countless Generations with Just A Few Exceptions. Now, I am not going to progen to have all the Answers about what it is to be a real man, but having been a one for seventy-seven year old Around I Think i Am Qualified to Say a Few importing Things Things Thood or a Least Give a Little Perspective on the Topic. Some of you will and t undoubtedly disagree strongly or simply write me off as raving mad. You may have a point but Then Again, I May Be Accurate About What I Say. You Decide.

The Topic of What IT Means To Be a Man is Huge And Has So many parts that it will be impossible to address everything in this Short Article. It may require more than article to Even Begin to cover the topic and it is a subject that keeps evolving as we speak so we will get to the end of it.

The Dual Nature of Men

Let's get Started. We human begs have a dualistic nature. We have thesis mammal bodies that Behave in Certain Ways and of Courses Mammal Bodies Come with Genes, Hormones, Chemistry, and Physical Characteristics Unique to the Male Form. Thesis Both Extend Our Capacity and Restrict Us in very obvious ways Height, Weight, Weight, Musculature and Sex Organ Without the Corresponding Baby Making Machinery That Females have. All thesis obvious physical differences plus conditioning give us personalities that develop as we grow and all men particular in this reality. In addition, all of us men are aware that we are alive and that awareness is a separate and different reality from the physical aspects. Let me explain. If some wose to ask me if i am alive right now, i would not have to ponder this. Right Away I would check and say “Absolutely, Yes, I am Alive”. You could ask anyone on the Planet the Same Question and she would all respond identity Ideals Perhaps They Were Psychotic but that is a differ story. Notice I Said Anyone, Not men, Not Women, Anyone. What i am Saying here is that there is absolute no difference whatssoever in the response of a man or a woman to that question. Pure Awareness of Being Alive is the same for everyone. It is not influenced by gender or anyding else. There is a profound implication here that some of you may have already noticed. If our experience of beg aware that we are alive is identical, perhaps there is only one aarensness that we are all particular participating in. Gender is irrelevant and we are one consciousness.

If I Were to Ask You Something Else Like, "How does your body feel right now?" The Answers would be all over the map and they would be gender related, impacted by different body chemistry, different hormones, different organ, and so on. You get the idea. So, we are dualistic creatures. One part of us is very influenced by local gender differences and one points to our seedness. We men and women are radicalally different but the same.

There is no problem whatsoever about our seedness. No problem arise out of it. It is just like that. We are the same regarding Our Awareness of Being. And May I Go So Far As To Say We Are one Big BEGING WITH EITHT AND A HALF Billion Parts Called the Human Race. But what about me as a body and a personality with my local history and identity and narrative about what i've done and Who i am and where i am going? This is not shared by everyone. It is my unique program and I am the only one having my particular experience of Being Me.

Individuality Among Men

I Could Gather a Bunch of Men Around Me And Say, “We Are All Men And We Share This And That” and I would be sort of accurate. But if we real dug into that, my experience of beg a man is somewhat different from jack's experience of beg a man, or ernesto, or hiro, or max. I don't know that. What us men do know is that despite the fact that there are enormous differences Among us we share the same sex organ, hormonal drives to be more aggressive, and we share similar Expectations of the culture we live in about what a man shede be. That's about it.

We share hormones, genes, and chemistry, but Have somewhat different imprinting, and family, social and cultural conditioning, as well as maturity. In other Words, The Physical Stuff - Animal Characteristics, is what we share. In reality we are proactive high consciousness leggs with a universal awareness that we are alive and we are occupying animal bodies that are mostly reactive. Most of the time with go with the animal, the reactive stuff and this leads to eventual Dissatisfaction and unhappiness with ourselves and Each Other and this eventual leads to Fear and fighting and complete forgeting about that all importing other aspect that we are the seed.

Let's take a few moments here to make it obvious Why each man is different and not at all the same. Men come in all different size, shapes, skin color, hair color, and temperament. Some men are observing or aggressive, or passionate, or reserved and Others are cautious or Powerful or Persevering. Some are emotional, Others More intellectual and Still Others More Kinesthetic. Some men are idealism, some skeptics, some stoics, realistic, spiritualist, cynics, or pragmatic. Some are very warm and accepting, other discriminating and exactly, ambitious and wanting to lear, some more intense, some domineering and controlling, Others More Surrendering, and Still Others Just Chilling and Hanging Out. Some are highly creative and inventive, Others Boisterous and Hilarious, Still Others very inspiring, and some very child and giving the shirt off their backs for Others, While Still Others Are Commanding, Even Tyrannical, And Others Focused, Principled, and Loyal, and Still Others Studious and Experimental. Some Seek Freedom While Others Seek Intimacy and Companionship, Others Want to Express Themselves, Some Want to Exchange and Do Business With Each Other, And Some Wood Rather Competete, Defeat Others, Rise to Power, Play King Of The Mountain. Some Want to Commune and Others Want Stability and Order and So It goes on and on on. Some want to exploit, Others One to Preserve and Sustain, Others Are Animal and Plant Loving While Others Are Driven by the Almighty dollar. Some of US Men Are Very Stubborn, Some Arrogant Or Proud, Some Seif-Deprecatating, Some Feeling Guilty and Some Feeling Ashamed, Some Self-Destructive, Some Acting Like Victims, Some Highly Impatent and So On. Incidentary we could say all this about Women as well and it would all be true but it would all be flavored Slightly Differently. At the end of the day, all thesis differ ways of beg are legitimate experiment to be explored, examined, live and learned from. Who Says We have to all be alike?

So, in what way are we as men all alike or at least similar? Now there are so many people in the world that there is room enough for all kinds of exceptions. So, yes, we have many men that that are lgbtq. Do we real all have to be boringly exactly alike? No. Sexual Speaking the Majority of Men Are Similar in A Few Respects. If you look around at nature you will find that biologicalally speaking everyhing alive is chiefly interest in reproducing and live long enough to do so successfully. So, in the interest of reproducing, everything alive is geared town staying alive by avoiding annihilation. Now, for the time leg we are going to ignore the rest of nature with all its fascinating variations and just concentrate on male human.

Every man is subconsciously active scanning the environment for safety. Yes, Men are instincely on the lookout for possible Dangers to avoid. They are ready to Protect Themselves and at Times, Others, by Fighting Enemies Off Or Getting Out of Harm's Way, One Way Or Another. In this way they can survive long enough to mate and keep the species going. So, they are not only to Safety But they are biologicalally scanning for potential mates and once they spot one, they strategize how they are going to actually accomplish this. Now, Bear in Mind I at Speaking Strictly of Biological imperative here. Many men are much more sophisticated in their Behaver and are also Considering Love, Diplomacy, Decency, Protective, Generosity, Kindness, Mastery and So On. So, they are dealing with obstacles like Fear of Rejection, Shyness, inhibitions, avoidance, and not wanting to appear too aggressive or wanting to appear Lethal and many other search considers. This is all to say that much of human activity is actually Oriented to Prowling and this can clash with the other parts of ourselves that are more interested in spiritual matters or other types of creative endavors. So, when Women react to men with, “Men Only Want One Thing, Sex, they are sort of right in a purely physical sense but sort of wrong at the same time. The right part is that must men are are controlled by their chemistry and the biological imperative of all living creatures, Keep the Race or Species Going No Matter. Responsibilities, Parenting, Being Healthy, Athletic Endavors, Sports, Spirituality, and So On.

Even if we single out the fairly common element of wanting sex, we find enormous differences in how men approach it, handle it, think about it, want it, are afraid of it to it, and all the preferences that go along with it. Men are more liklinely to be imprinted than Early Childhood Experience Tend to Focus Them on Certain Parts They Find Erotic Like Breasts, Ankles, Legs, Shoulders, Midriffs, Necks, Ears, Hair, Lips etc. And sometimes Things that Are Peripheral Like Underwear, Bras, Bras, Hats, and shoes to name a few. There is even one Famous Case of a Man Who Found StreetCars Majorly Erotic. And that there are the men who are more oriented toede illegal and harmful activities like Child molestation, extreme in pornography, and extreme sadomasochistic tendencies. And yes, some men have no sex drive at all and prefer to be celibate. Men are just not all the same by any stretch of the imagination even in their sex lives.

Young Men Just Going Through Puberty Are Often Confused About What Being A Man Means And They Get All Kinds Of Crazy Ideas From Their Friends, Parents, And The Society They Live In, Not to Mination what their Religion Has About It. When all is Said and Done, a man is what the man thinks a man is and this is subject to change with maturity and more life experience. In this article we have covered the big picture what makes men exactly the same as women in an essence state and what makes topic distinct from women and one another in a physical state. Neither Being Oblery Spiritual and Denying the Physical Body Or Beng Oirde Focused on the Physical and Denying Higher Awareness Works. They are inexorably intertwined and it is our work as men and women to sort that out. There is more to this fascinating topic that will be addressed in upcoming articles. In the meeantime, enjoy what you are Because Without Fail You Will Be Both Female and Male as The Lifetimes Whirl by. Whatever you resist you will Become.


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José Stevens PhD is an international lecturer, corporate team builder and organizational coach, consultant and trainer. A psychologist, licensed clinical social worker and author of more than twenty books and numerous articles, he is also co-editor for A Journal of Contemporary Shamanism and a board member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners. He is the founder, with his wife Lena, of the Power Path School of Shamanism and The Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating youth in indigenous cultures. He has completed a ten-year apprenticeship with a Huichol Maracame in Mexico and has studied with the Shipibos of the Amazon and the Paqos of the Andes for the last thirty years.

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