A CALL TO THE KINGS...

?A CALL TO THE KINGS...

Becoming a King has been one of my life's most confronting and radical transformations. And it's been occurring at a rapid rate in recent months.

It all started with my men’s group in Los Angeles. My brothers had called an ‘emergency meeting’ when one of them picked up on the overwhelm I was experiencing.?

“What’s going on, brother?”

“What do you mean?”, I feigned.

“You’re stressed. What’s up?”

“How did you know?”

“I can feel it. What’s going on?”

This was how the phone call started two days before I was on a last-minute flight to LA, where four of the most powerful, successful, deep, and loving men I know were rearranging their schedules and dropping everything to circle up with me. My brother John had felt something was ‘off’ with me in our group text thread and so he had just picked up the phone and called me.?

I shared with him the overwhelm I was experiencing. I shared how I’d taken on a lot - all at once - and that I was having a hard time carrying it all. It seemed like only yesterday I was a single guy with not a care in the world and now I had a wife, two boys, two kittens, 25 chickens, a farm that needs constant care, as well as two businesses, one of which has a team with payroll, not to mention the largest client load I’ve ever had.?

While I knew all of this was right and true for me to be doing, and while I was managing to hold it all together, I also felt like I was being crushed by the weight of it all.?

In hindsight, I can see that I didn’t want to acknowledge this. Once my brother called me out though, it opened like a sieve.?

We met for dinner when I landed and again the next morning at my brother Teo's ranch. There were numerous moments of insight and relief as the men shared how they have met and handled similar situations, but the ultimate insight for me was one that I couldn’t make much sense of at the time.

After listening to me wax lyrical about my troubles and how what bothered me most about it all was the loss of confidence the overwhelm was contributing to, my brother said very simply…

“That’s good.”

“What?!”, I said, with a challenging tone. “It’s good I’m losing my confidence?”

I could feel my warrior blood warming up.

“Yes”, he said, allowing the tension to build further.?

When I realized what he was doing, I relaxed into curiosity. He could feel my readiness.

“You’re losing your prince's confidence…so that your King's confidence can emerge.”

When he said that, I just stared at him.

I was stuck in a daze as my mind struggled with a gaping void where usually I find meaning in words. At the same time though, my heart began to glow the way ET’s finger did.

What the heck he meant, I had not a clue. But that it was true, I was certain.?

Upon returning to Maui, I followed this thread and it has led me into a deep exploration and liberation of the King archetype within me. As I delved deep into this work, I discovered that I had been actively repressing the power of the King for decades.?

This work of connection and liberation has led to confronting, vivid night-time dreams, the cultivation of new rituals, automatic writing, imaginative meditations and even speaking in strange voices, all of which are contributing to not only a new kind of confidence but a new and more powerful way of creating my day and guiding my life and work overall.?

It has been an existentially disruptive experience, not only for myself but for many I’ve been in long-term relationships with. Not every relationship will survive a radical change in being, and so I’ve tried to be as kind as possible to myself and others during this transformation.

The threat to our sense of self and our relationships can be one of the largest obstacles to our growth.

We don’t typically like the idea that we may have to give up the people and comforts we care about to become who we are truly capable of being. Be it a fact of life or not, we don’t enjoy it.

For example, the prince loves his friends, he loves his lifestyle, and he loves how his days go. The King’s life is very different. He values different things. He prioritizes differently.?

As we have seen, one can take on the role of a King/Queen externally while remaining a prince/princess internally.?

This can last for a while, but for those who have a hard time stomaching incongruence between their inner and outer worlds, for those not sold on?grinding?or?just getting on with it, this can only last so long. Eventually, they will either shrink their outer world, retreating to the context of the prince/princess, or they will welcome a confronting conversation with someone adept at seeing and feeling and whom they trust.?

In Creating, the King is a Pure Creator. His way is beyond the labor of the camel and transcends the fierceness of the lion. Knowing his innocence, he surrenders to something greater than himself and lives as a radiance of generative care.

For the first time, I will be personally leading a small group made up of only men. In our 8-month journey together, I will guide and support you in accessing the King within. This is both deep and high-level work for men who are already immersed in or at the precipice of, their Kingship. The work will yield exponential material results and life-changing personal transformation making it the best investment ever made.

If the possibility of accessing and liberating the King within yourself and becoming a Pure Creator calls to you, then I would love to connect with you.?

Reply to this post/send me a DM with the words “I am a King” to begin the conversation.

Loving you, JP