An Earthknight Manifesto

by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette

The following is an excerpt from the book “The Warrior Within” by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette.

  1. There is no such thing as a harmless or unarmed human being. Those who would deny that they either possess or need Warrior energy are merely in denial and expressing the Warrior in shadow forms.
  2. This denial of human aggression—particularly male aggression—must be confronted and worked through until one can engage aggression in oneself and in others maturely and responsibly. This is not just a private issue—it is a matter of public responsibility.
  3. Warrior responsibility cannot be delegated— if your community, your city, your world is unsafe for your brothers and sisters and their children, the buck stops with you.
  4. Competence in the discipline and skills of the Warrior must be learned—and no one can do it for you.
  5. Martial arts in some form should be a required part of the educational curriculum for boys and girls, and men and women of all ages.
  6. All education in martial arts should be framed under the vision of shared responsibility to promote and defend an inclusive, post-tribal humane human community on our home planet.
  7. There are real enemies of this just and peaceful planetary community that are not a creation of paranoia and that if left unopposed will destroy our potential for a humane human future. This “monster boy” landscape is populated by well-organized, financed, and politically connected interests that are happy if you ignore them, at most just say bad things about them, or limit yourself to whining and playing “Ain’t It Awful.” Most of these real enemies of a humane planetary future could be helped toward more mature masculine and feminine initiations. But in the landscape of “monster” country, it is usually necessary that confrontation precede such transformations. At any rate, so far as men at least are concerned, many will never experience transformation into responsible masculine maturity—but must be checked through active opposition. Their destructiveness must be stopped, or at least decisively limited: This will not make them happy. If you have assumed your Warrior responsibilities, it will make your life more challenging—and more dangerous.
  8. Effective engagement will require effective warrior initiations leading to preparation, mobilization, strategic thinking, networking, and cooperation on international and local grass roots levels.
  9. The confrontation and engagement that must be planned for, resourced, and expedited must be seen in a global, international, intersystemic context with the ecological struggle among the top priorities, and expanding as soon as possible into other fronts.
  10. As Saul Alinsky noted, you don’t need everyone to win: 1 percent of the male population of our species with consolidated warrior initiations and committed to an inclusive vision, could make a decisive difference for the world future.
  11. The buck stops with you. Prepare yourself. Step forward. Accept your Warrior responsibilities. Fit your talents and resources to the arena or theater that seems to need you the most.
  12. Victory is not an outmoded or demonic concept. We shall overcome!

Other magnificent men are already engaged in struggles against chaos and destructiveness in all its many forms. If there isn’t a men’s organization in your community that engages in the struggle, start one and become part of its leadership.

Become a general in the struggle for a humane planetary future. If this is asking more than you are competent to give now, find your level; get more experience and training, then assume all the responsibility that you can carry. Future generations on our planet may not know your name, but they will remember you and bless you as part of the magnificent vanguard who stepped into the breach at this very decisive time in human history and fought to secure a viable future for the children—the sons and daughters—of this beloved planet Earth.

BE GLORIOUS!

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  • Bjarte Hiley

    This is inspiring, I love it!

    I stand with you, Eivind!

    Bjarte

  • http://www.masculinity-movies.com Eivind

    That is really good to know, Bjarte. You know what that means don’t you? You need to take a role of active leadership when you come back from China.

  • http://www.masculinity-movies.com Eivind

    I take that back. You can start that process right now. No need to wait. You have your voice on the Web. Use it. I stand with you, Bjarte!

  • Paul Hess

    There is a big need for strategic thinking as if we are in a war. Right now people in opposition to the new world order are often highly specialized and uninterested in linking issues and thinking about how to move people and win the class war that has been imposed on us. I have attempted to do that with less positive responses than we will need to have a coherent strategy.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, Paul. There is some synchronicity in your message appearing here today. As you can see, there are not many comments on this piece and here you are – just one day after I used it as a theme in a mini-workshop on the Warrior archetype. Feeling that this is hardly a coincidence, I’m psyched to have you here and feel a fire in my belly as I write.

    What part do you intend to have in this coming war against the enemies of a truly humane human future? And what has and has not been working for you in this battle so far? I’m gearing up myself and need allies and courage.

  • Paul Hess

    Hi Eivind, It’s great to hear from you. Your writing was very powerful.  I would like to know more about your warrior workshop.. I have been working on three fronts:

    Economics: a new model of the firm sustainable world class business, with a more positive strategy for green business focused on what customers want: to improve their health. The toxic crisis is arleady here with modern epidemics of diseases driven by toxicity and poor food systems. Climate change is distant to many.

    Health: I am a natural health consultant, working on helping people heal chronic illnesses, rejuvenate and to become a super sex machines in the face of estrogenic toxic chemicals and declining testosterone, sperm counts and penis sizes across many species.

    Gender: I have not yet written in public putting together all the theories and practices: Warren Farrell, Howard S. Schwartz, Rion Williams Natural Grounding videos, and Authentic Man Program, along with Deida, of course. The deepest analysis of feminization of society is the Revolt of the Primitive by Howard Schwartz, but you have to separate out the insight from conservative bias. Natural Grounding to videos of truly feminine women changes your energy immediately and people notice. Women have hardly any role models from the corporate media here and men do not know how it is supposed to be, but these videos are a powerful therapy and guide–not to be underestimated.

  • Paul Hess

    These three areas relate strategically through a moral and political framework that grows out of the gender analysis. In the USA we have a distinction between the conservatives as the daddy party and liberals as the mommy party. George Lakoff distinguishes between the strict father and nurturing parent model of politics. Spiral dynamics is not strong on gender analysis but strong on other things.  I have been playing with ways to synthesize these theories to reconfigure politics with insights from mens movement that would help progressive capture the center and the conservatives driven out of the Republican party by the facists. The strategy would tap into where people are at with their urgent needs and connections between issues: economics, health, finding love, solving the gender identity crisis.

  • Anonymous

    When I read your words, it strikes me that your thinking seems BIG. You’re out there to really foster MASSIVE change, aren’t you? You will need support then. Allies. Tell me how I can help. It’s too early for me to say I understand fully what you’re about, but I like the gist of it that I’m getting here.

    The Warrior workshop was a 3-hour mini workshop where I gave a rough introduction to the archetypal framework explaining the archetypal tripartite configuration (bipolar shadow -> synthesis) and the three knights (red, white, black). We then did some meditation and discussion before we ended with experiential exercises where participants got to choose if they wanted to work on getting ahead in life or defending boundaries.

    It was powerful and the participants loved it.

    Loved this sentence: “I am a natural health consultant, working on helping people heal chronic
    illnesses, rejuvenate and to become a super sex machines in the face of
    estrogenic toxic chemicals and declining testosterone, sperm counts and
    penis sizes across many species.” :-)