This workbook offers a comprehensive path to embody the authentic, life-affirming masculinity that is available to each of us: the organic masculine. The first in a series of four, this lore book explores the evolution of consciousness and the archetype of the Magician.
The Organic Masculine presents an integral journey into redefining masculinity in wholeness. You will delve into the essence of what it means to be a man today, examining the complexities of this question within a developmental framework. Central to our exploration is the "Organic Masculine," defined as any form of masculinity that affirms life in its fullness—empowered, generative, compassionate, and rooted in wisdom and love.
Through this exploration of masculinity, you will weave together the evolution of consciousness, Integral Theory, contemporary gender studies, and masculine archetypes to embody a more nuanced and expansive expression of masculinity. Exploring the masculine through the lenses of sexuality, identity, and relational dynamics will open the potential for your healing and evolution.
With a clear intention to move beyond conventional, dominance-based paradigms of masculinity, this text will challenge you to question what it means to align with the masculine in ways that acknowledge the pain masculinity has caused while simultaneously celebrating the sacred, life-giving core of masculinity. The new vision you'll be invited into redefines masculinity in honor of all genders, embracing queerness, and fostering collective well-being.
Focusing on the Magician archetype, the first volume in this four-part series will guide you to find your inner Magician to walk the path of initiation. Subsequent volumes will explore The Warrior, The Lover, and The Monarch archetypes, each adding layers to a holistic understanding of the masculine psyche.
This engaging book is a transmission of consciousness that will draw you into deep inner work, offering pathways for personal transformation while boldly seeking to redefine our collective experience of masculinity in wholeness. Through exercises, reflections, and narrative explorations, you are invited to delve into your own experiences and perceptions of masculinity, fostering a space for inner alchemy. The Organic Masculine will offer you a comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of masculinity in the modern world.
This book presents a comprehensive understanding of what it means to be an upstanding man today. More importantly, it offers a methodology for men to step into their unique life-affirming masculinity. Matt Sturm is the single most efficient teacher that I have ever known. Read this book to get the foundation. And then reach out to Matt to be held accountable to the implementation. You will never regret it.
The Organic Masculine deftly organizes the best consciousness maps we have today into a genuine inner workbook for genuine men serious about the sacred opportunity they've been given to evolve Human Masculinity itself. Using the forge of masculine sexuality, Sturm has created an accelerant for men to get painfully, blissfully honest with ourselves about how much of our bodies-hearts-minds-spirits we are actually bringing into our vital play power that is our life. The immense coordinating of so many tiers, stages, archetypes, lines, polarities and evolutionary processes he uses as the field of his focus shows Sturm's particular genius. But the indelible presence of the sacred and how he holds our species and all of life as precious and invaluable is his particular Blessing to us.
In our current zeitgeist of deep confusion contrasted by pure potential, Matt Sturm offers a much-needed way-finder in a world of uncertainty and unknowns. The Organic Masculine invites us into a love for nuance, the courage to play and the desire to thrive, all in service to awakening our inner archetypal Magician. With our Wizard Within we learn to alchemize our antiquated aspects of masculinity to activate our primordial ancestral aliveness. Realizing our creative power to do so, with confidence we can engage the friction and tension of these times to reforge our masculine identities on our own terms thus making way for whatever responsive and relevant actions urge to emerge through the depths of our individual and collective being.
Matt’s exploration of masculinity is as bold and comprehensive as I’ve had the pleasure to explore. Who are we as humans? Where are we going? What role does masculinity play in that evolutionary process? These questions set the foundation for the important personal exploration of what does it mean to be masculine in this world at this time. Be ready to have the way you look at yourself and the world forever changed.
Finally, a smart book of substance about men and masculinity, for anyone looking for an integral roadmap that brings together wisdom from the world’s leading minds. Matt deftly weaves together the mythic, spiritual, philosophical, historical and practical - while adding his own helpful critiques and personal vulnerability - into a systematic approach to understanding consciousness, the universe, and paradigms of masculinity. An ambitious book that is also deeply satisfying.
Matt has offered men and women a great service with this book. If you are on a quest for deeper embodiment, and if you are on the path of evolution into an integrated whole, The Organic Masculine offers the best map to date for masculinity and challenges you to engage completely in your process of becoming.
Matt Sturm is a guide for transformational experiences. He works with people to slow down, to come into their bodies, and to connect to their innate inner wisdom. Matt holds a strong, clear container for healing, intimacy, and spiritual awakening within a variety of contexts. These include psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, sacred sexuality, breathwork journeys, and men's retreats. He runs the Living Kosmos integral mystery school, focusing on the evolution of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality. Through the online programs in Living Kosmos, Matt teaches about Integral Theory, the tarot archetypes and the Western Mystery tradition, kundalini awakening, and more.