Ruwando Podcast

The Road of Trials (Hero’s Journey) is a stage of life where the hero (you) are forced to engage in conflicts to gain power.

In the movies, it’s the training montage between “All is lost” and “Apotheosis” (god mode).

In real life, it signifies how you transform yourself during hard times.

Road of Trials: Transform Yourself During Hard Times speaks about needing hard times in life, what to do when reinventing yourself, suffering in a direction, and why you must engage in conflicts.

This is a republish from 2021.

Modern society is amidst warfare of morals: Family vs. Globalism. Nature vs. Culture.

Noah Revoy speaks on the war of perception and information, how part of taking responsibility as a man is in creating/building sovereignty for family, how to build a strong family culture, maintaining parent’s influence on your child, and protecting yourself via self-discipline as internal manipulation.

noahrevoy.com

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What does it mean to “be the rock” in a relationship? Having a man you can depend on is something every woman wants. But what does that actually mean in practice?

It’s a mistake if you think relationships are symmetrical. This episode starts with changing your perspective on relationship, why you shouldn’t depend on your woman, how to stay grounded in a relationship, and what it means to be the rock in a relationship, really.

Can you prepare for fatherhood? Dan Doty from Fatherhood Unlocked speaks on how fatherhood is changing, how fatherhood shifts your focus in life, the importance of being a father, generational differences in upbringing, and other man stuff. I’m going to be having more dads on the podcast soon to discuss the importance of being a father. It is the King Archetype after all.

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NPR recently wrote a piece criticizing p*rn abstinence as somehow misogynistic. I break down the positives and negatives of NoFap, and also how this piece of propaganda is a cultural attack on the male agency.

Tom Billinge and I speak on WarYoga, yoga's violent origins, the Rig Veda, Indian wrestling, martial arts and culture, masculine philosophy vs modernity, and different perspectives on "the gods"

Tom is the author of WarYoga, WarYoga: Zurxane, Undying Glory, Age of Heroes. He's also a Muay Thai instructor and knows a lot about history and martial arts.

CJ Rodriguez from @masculinehealthsolutions podcast comes on to speak on male enhancement, natural bodybuilding, fatherhood, rebelling against modernity, and a male perspective on everything.

According to Phub data, interest in "milf" skyrocketed last year. This says something about the male collective conscious via what Jung would call "The Mother Complex"-- material imprinting still affecting an adult man.


00:00 Phub data represents collective male consciousness
01:50 MILF going up to 2nd place (mommy issues?)
03:45 Mother Complex myths and movies
05:50 MILF trope (Mrs. Robinson)
09:20 The Oedipus Complex
16:30 Boy VS Man
18:30 What happens if you don't address the Mother Complex?
20:40 Coping mechanisms: transference, sex & violence
22:30 Madonna-Whore complex + merging the dichotomy
26:10 Coping mechanisms vs Integrating
27:30 Active Imagination exercise (Jung)
30:00 Feminine cleanse
31:16 Mapping complex to your actual mother
33:50 Mother Complex in Western culture
37:14 Coming soon: other psychological tropes

How much can women "control" men's emotions? Om and Joseph return to the podcast to discuss an experiment testing this. Also the power dynamics between the genders.

James Kalupson is a psychotherapist who facilitates psylocybin retreats in Jamaica. We speak about Jungian vs. shamanic vs. traditional clinical approaches to personal transformation and the psyche.

https://www.jameskalupson.com/
https://mycomeditations.com
X: @jamesfkalupson