For me, I think the question would be do I get any inspiration from men without fictional origin.

I have produced two lengthy podcasts on Parzival and Amfortas, models of a man's journey. They are Inspirational metaphores for all men.

But why stop at fictional men? What is the matter with looking at real ones, not just at them but at what they do; their ideas; their journies to turn their ideas into reality?

I was asked by John Dias what books a man should read. I amswered thus:

What literature has had the most profound effect on your attitudes and thinking, and why?

The story of Parzival, of course, but not just in isolation. I could give you a list of a hundred fine books. You could spend a day just looking at the titles on my bookshelves and twenty years reading them.

I was advised at the age of 21 to read a particular book – “ Insight: A Study of Human Understanding” written by Bernard Lonergan SJ – and it took me until I was 45 to work my way through it. That’s 24 years. It was a big ask for a lad who wasn’t even 24 yet. I had to read several hundred other books along the way just to get past successive pages. That’s a long time and a lot of reading. The trick is to understand what it is that is being taught.

It’s no trick of course. It’s damned hard work.

Are young men prepared to do that work?

Then there is’ Faust’ by Goethe: the only story that asks the question (another that no-one bothers to ask) ‘can the Devil be redeemed?’ How can we overcome Evil without becoming Evil ourselves? It is the natural Fourth-Dimensional Man successor to Don Quixote’s three-dimensional man, and as with the old Spanish madman, denotes a change in human consciousness and a broadening of masculinity.

Then there is David Hodgson’s book ‘The Mind Matters’. He is an Australian Supreme Court Judge, by the way, who has a firmish grasp of quantum mechanics. And if you don’t think that QM has any bearing on our MRA matters, then read David Bohm’s body ofwork in that field. We live in an Explicate Order of Reality, (as shown by quantum mechanic equations) which is dependant upon a wholly different Implicate Order of Reality. The Princess of Lies comes from that Implicate Order to infect our material world.

For lighter reading, more pertinent to MRA tactical issues, there is Dr Eric Berne’s “Games People Play”, wherein most of the female hysteria-strategies are laid out for all to see. It is a personal defence manual.

And for deep and essential analysis of pretty well every MRA issue a young man MUST read Warren Farrell’s ‘Myth of Male Power’. It is the Strategic Primer.

Follow it up with Mark Prendergast’s ‘Victims of Memory’. It is more specific but shows the power of the Lie and Hysteria when applied to men and the utter destruction of our Court processes.

In terms of the very wide perspective of Man’s place in Nature and our relations to God, I have real all the slim volumes of Fr Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit who was not only the most hightly decorated man in the first world war but a paleontologist, a theologian and a visionary. It was he who foretold the coming of the Internet a full 50 years before it arrives and saw it as an evolutionaryily essential part of man gaining full consciousness.

- as an addendum to those, I recommend men, especially young men, to read biographies of Great Men, such as the one written by Maj Gen Strong about Field Marshal Montgomery. Strong was Monty's G3 (Intel) in North Africa. Read Rommel. Read patton. Read Marshall. Read Eisenhower. Read Wellingtom and Nelson.


Did you know that Admiral Lord Nelson recieved his fist 'ship of the line' command at just 14 ? That is to say, he was given the equivalent of a today's 200 million dollar frigate while barely into his teens and before he needed to shave. He was made a 'Flag Captain'. That is, he was able to hoist his own flag as a fighting ship's Commanding Officer on the main mast. Bugger some comic-book or cinema fantasy 'hero'. He was a real one.


Read major Scientists and philosophers. Read the bio of Isembard Kingdom Brunel. Read real, non-fictional men. Proven men. men who have prevailed. Understand them.