We may feel we need to escape into the woods to find that wildness. But wildness isn’t a place. It’s a rhythm. And it’s already in you, waiting to be found. It’s the longing that stretches beyond language, the instinct that pulses beneath logic, and the fierceness that refuses to be domesticated. For many Outsiders, wildness was buried early beneath shame, silence, and survival. But it can be reclaimed, and that reclamation is sacred.
From Wildman to Warrior: A Name That Holds a Tension
The Mankind Project (MKP), a men’s organization to which I belong, is known for its initiatory weekend: the New Warrior Training Adventure, commonly called the Warrior Weekend. But it wasn’t always called that.
The way I heard the story, in MKP’s early days, the weekend was called the Wildman Weekend. The name evoked rawness, chaos, and the archetypal masculine energy that defies polite society and cultural expectations of manhood. Eventually—probably to appeal to more men—it …
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