In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "Iron John" from the Grimm Brothers' collection - a tale about masculine rite of passage, initiation, service, and the integration of wildness with cultivation. A boy frees a wild man from a cage, leaves home on the wild man's shoulders, and enters the world to learn what poverty means. Through stages of humble service, fierce battles, and finally recognition, he discovers that becoming whole requires both the capacity for wildness and the discipl...
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