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in the bibliography. TGwildwise.rtf Reaction to Richard Rohrs From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality , March 2010
-- properly! The Christian religion used to play a prominent role in American life. Families said prayers before meals and
children went to Sunday school while their parents attended church services. However, fewer Americans attend church now than ever before, but as Father Richard Rohr points out in the
text he wrote with assistance from Joseph Martos entitled From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality, too many of these people are simply seeking solace elsewhere in
unhealthy practices such as substance abuse. Spirituality is as the author reveals as essential to nurturing the human spirit as are food and water. This extremely thought-provoking volume
discusses the importance of applying spirituality to everyday life as a positive reinforcement. The term male spirituality is not a
gender-restrictive construct; it is the authors approach to what the Asians refer to as yin/yang. All humans, Father Rohr contends, are a combination of male spirituality and a feminine
soul. He explains that just as women are incomplete without their male spirituality, so too are men without their feminine soul. Such a man "will build, explain, use,
fix, manipulate, legislate, order and play with whatever he bothers to touch, but he will not really touch it at all - for he does not know the inside of
things. He has no subtlety, imagination, ability to harmonize, or live with paradox or mystery. He engineers reality instead of living it" (Rohr, 2005, p. 9). This
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