Satyen Raja On Presence, Purpose and Answering the Call
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Ian MacKenzie interviews Satyen Raja about presence, purpose, and the importance of brotherhood in the context of the upcoming Cascadia Men’s Conference.
We’re just under 30 days out from my upcoming Cascadia Men’s Conference , a first-of-its-kind mythopoetic gathering happening August 6-9 in the Squamish Valley, north of Vancouver. In the lead up, I’ve been hosting live conversations with our presenters - previous episodes have included men’s author Matt Sturm , indigenous poet Cliff Taylor , and later this week Scottish storyteller Dougie Mackay . Yesterday I connected with Satyen Raja. Satyen is the founder of Warrior Sage, a master martial artist, and one of the keynote presenters at the conference. He’s been showing up in FB with what I can only describe as fiery transmissions - dispatches on men, presence, and the particular weight of this moment in history. “Without a deep purpose - a purpose of depth that comes from the soul - we flounder. We gravitate toward the superficial. We can enjoy it, but we can’t live there. It will never touch the deepest core of our being.” We talk about distraction as a slow theft of life force, about what brotherhood actually offers that no amount of solo self-improvement can replace, and about the three pillars Satyen will be bringing to the gathering: presence, claim, and penetration. Men…
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