The Whole Paradox
Welcome to The Whole Paradox podcast, where we explore timeless wisdom in the modern age to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and belonging to ourselves, our world, and one another. We will integrate the sacred, mythic, somatic, creative and poetic to expand our meaning of truth and our capacity for complexity and nuance.
The Whole Paradox
Initiatory Reclamation with Nicky Wilks
Western culture has in many ways lost conscious relationship with the forces of initiation, so many of us are unconsciously dragged along into initiatory trial after initiatory trial without context, without the container of the community or the elders to hold us and imbue our experiences with meaning and sacred purpose. Without the anchoring of communal ritual we become untethered from the cosmos and the wheel of time that connects us to the eternal.
In this episode, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews friend, educator, speaker, facilitator, and Rites of Passage guide, Nicky Wilks. They discuss:
- The impact of lack of ritualized rites of passage
- The fatherhood initiation
- The necessity of male rites of passage due to the lack of physiological markers and the reliance on cultural markers that we are lacking in modern life
- The need for mentors, elders, community in becoming a father
- Nicky's work with rites of passage and the father-child bond
- The importance of mythology and story to give us context in our lives
- The male identity in the modern context
- Fire-keeping as a portal between the physical and metaphysical
- And much more
Find Nicky Wilks:
Follow Nick @nickywilks.
Find out more about Nicky and his offerings on his website.
Find out more about Journeymen on their website and on instagram @journeymen.
Follow us @mollymitchellhardt
This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.
References:
Michael Meade
Dr. Arne Rubenstien
Super Great Kids' Stories