James Strole Speaks Out
 A new masculinity
It’s so programmed in the male to make his way alone in the world. Your mother told you to do this, your dad told you to do that, and they were both lost. You’re so strong in these lone identities that you’re going to do it your way. Even when the path is laid out for you so clear, so clean and so free, you're going to do it your way because it makes you a man. Because you think that makes you a man. But it doesn’t make you a man.
A man is really a very tender, gentle creature and in need of direction. And you’re really a man when you can say that; when you can say, “Wow, I need direction”.
This chemistry that I feel with the male creates troubled waters. It’s a natural life. It’s competition.
It’s time to let go of your competitive male energy. There’s a particular unique design to male competitiveness. Females compete in their own way, but the male has his own design. And he’s always trying to make his own way in the world. Make his own imprint. Men are taught this from a young age. Be a man, be your own man.
The man has always been the food gatherer, has always been programmed to make his mark on the world. And it keeps you from being totally nourished and totally prosperous. It limits you as a physically immortal person. In the mortal world, that way of being is needed for survival. But I’m not about survival. In my world, it’s crippling.
I need the feeling of your body with me. I need your praise from that whole place, that recognition of what our body is. I need for you to not turn around and recreate what I tell you because you have to design it to boost your own ego in some way, or to show that you did it. That’s what men do. They take the credit. As if they created it, made the blueprint themselves. No. In that way we’re always missing what has already been done, and that’s what keeps the troubled waters going all the time.
James Strole
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