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It's never to late to become a man...

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • May 31
  • 12 min read




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Have you ever watched people in a

crowded room instinctively gravitate

toward one particular man not the

loudest not the most physically

impressive not the wealthiest or most

famous but a man who carries himself

with an unmistakable quality of presence

that others can sense but rarely name

this man moves differently while others

gazes dart hungrily from body to body

his remains steady and direct while

others attention fragments between what

they're saying and what they're trying

to get his focus stays

undivided while others perform

alternating between dominant posturing

and desperate approval seeking he simply

exists comfortable in his own skin women

respond to him differently too they

relax in his presence their guards lower

they share thoughts they rarely express

with other men not because he's

employing manipulation tactics or

dominance displays but precisely because

he isn't his energy demands nothing from

them his attention doesn't drain them

his presence doesn't require their

performance what sets this man apart

isn't a technique it's a fundamentally

different relationship with the energy

flowing through him in a world where 90%

of men remain identified with and driven

by their sexual impulses he possesses

something revolutionary a desexualized

mind this doesn't mean a neuted

repressed or powerless mind quite the

opposite it means a consciousness that

has differentiated itself from blind

identification with sexual drive a mind

that feels desire perhaps even more

intensely than before but is no longer

possessed by it no longer unconsciously

driven by it carl Jung that great

pioneer of depth psychology recognized

this distinction as fundamental he wrote

"Where love rules there is no will to

power and where power predominates their

love is lacking the one is the shadow of

the other." The desexualized mind is not

about eliminating power or desire it's

about integrating them consciously

rather than being unconsciously driven

by them look around you billboards

featuring bodies sell everything from

perfume to hamburgers entertainment

reduces women to visual consumption

social media algorithms feed on and

amplify

objectification society bombards men

with messages designed to keep them

identified with lust their psychological

energy constantly pulled into their

lower centers this isn't accidental

unconscious men make ideal consumers

they follow predictable patterns their

attention can be captured and monetized

their insecurities can be weaponized to

sell products promising the very power

they've given away the system doesn't

want you conscious it profits from your

blind identification jung saw this

societal pattern decades before it

reached today's extreme in modern man in

search of a soul he warned that the gods

have become diseases the archetypal

energies humans once channeled through

myth ritual and religion don't disappear

when denied they become

pathological the sexual instinct

divorced from its sacred dimension and

reduced to mere biological drive becomes

an obsession a compulsion a source of

unconscious identification rather than

conscious participation in this

environment the man who achieves even

basic psychological differentiation

stands out dramatically his presence

communicates something entirely

different something genuine attentive

and whole this quality becomes

increasingly rare and therefore

increasingly valuable the deexualized

mind functions as modern man's greatest

weapon in multiple dimensions first it

liberates you from internal forces that

have kept you imprisoned in unconscious

patterns second it establishes your

presence as distinctive in a world of

reactivity third it transforms how

others particularly women experience and

respond to you women sense when a man's

mind is no longer driven primarily by

lust the man whose awareness remains

fused with sexual drive broadcasts his

intent without speaking his eyes linger

too long on bodies rather than

connecting with the person his attention

drifts during conversation searching for

opportunities his energy carries an

unspoken demand that women exist

primarily for his satisfaction women's

bodies register this predatory quality

even when their minds rationalize it

away they tense they guard they keep

emotional distance they may not

articulate it but their nervous systems

know precisely what they're dealing with

another man who sees them as means

rather than

beings jung understood this dynamic

through his concept of anima projection

in archetypes and the collective

unconscious he explains how men project

their inner feminine anima onto actual

women seeing not the woman herself but

their own unconscious content

the undifferentiated man doesn't see

women as they are he sees screens for

his projections vessels for his

fantasies solutions for his inner

emptiness the woman feels this

projection landing on her it's a weight

a reduction a demand that she becomes

something other than

herself but when you develop a

desexualized mind something remarkable

happens women feel safe in your presence

not because you're weak or sexless but

because they sense you see them

completely your gaze holds steady with

theirs your attention remains on their

words their essence their being your

energy carries no hidden agenda this

safety allows women to open in ways they

rarely can with most men they share more

freely they express themselves more

authentically they relax into genuine

connection rather than remaining

vigilant against potential exploitation

not because they've consciously analyzed

your intentions but because their

intuition far more sophisticated than

conscious thought registers that they

are being seen rather than consumed what

Yung called the process of withdrawing

projections is at work here as you

integrate your own animma rather than

projecting it outward you develop the

capacity to see women as they actually

are jung wrote that the meeting of two

personalities is like the contact of two

chemical substances if there is any

reaction both are

transformed this transformation becomes

possible only when projection ceases

when you stop using others as screens

for your unconscious

content have you noticed how women seem

magnetically drawn to men who aren't

desperately seeking sexual validation

how they chase men who don't chase them

this isn't a technique or strategy it's

a natural consequence of psychological

differentiation when your consciousness

isn't fixated on obtaining gratification

you communicate differently you listen

fully you respond to what's actually

being said rather than what might

advance your hidden agenda the irony

becomes apparent by releasing the

desperate grip on sexual acquisition you

become more genuinely attractive by

ceasing to treat others as means to

satisfaction you establish authentic

connection what Jung understood and what

most men never grasp is that

differentiation from drives doesn't

diminish power it enhances it this

enhanced power extends beyond

interpersonal dynamics the

undifferentiated mind lives in perpetual

hunger satisfaction proves temporary at

best quickly replaced by renewed craving

the man identified with his lust never

has enough another conquest another

experience another validation yet

remains fundamentally empty but when you

break this cycle you discover

contentment without acquisition your

sense of worth no longer depends on what

you can obtain your happiness no longer

hinges on fleeting gratification you

discover that you already possess what

you truly need this state corresponds to

what Jung called the transcendent

function the psyche's capacity to create

a third position that transcends

opposing forces in the transcendent

function Jung describes this as a way of

attaining liberation by one's own

efforts and of finding the courage to be

oneself the desexualized mind doesn't

repress sexuality nor does it indulge it

unconsciously it transcends the

opposition between repression and

indulgence establishing a higher unity

that includes both restraint and

expression in their proper measure this

contentment transforms every action what

previously served only your desperate

need for validation now becomes genuine

service to others your work your

relationships your creative output all

shift from self-gratification to

authentic contribution not because

you've suppressed your needs but because

you've integrated them within a larger

more comprehensive identity have you

noticed how life responds differently to

men who act from wholeness rather than

fragmentation ancient wisdom recognized

this principle for to everyone who has

more will be given and he will have

abundance but from him who does not have

even what he has will be taken away this

operates psychologically through what

Jung would recognize as synchronicity

meaningful coincidences that aren't

causally connected but reflect a deeper

ordering principle in synchronicity and

a causal connecting principle Jung

challenges the conventional western

division between mind and matter

suggesting that psyche and world are

interconnected in ways rationalism

cannot

explain the desexualized mind having

achieved greater internal coherence

naturally attracts external

circumstances that reflect this

coherence opportunities appear

relationships deepen work finds meaning

not because you're manipulating reality

but because your internal coherence

naturally magnetizes external coherence

you become someone people inexplicably

want to help support connect with and

open doors for people sense this

integrated state they may not

intellectually understand why they trust

you why they seek your counsel why they

remember what you say but they respond

to the integrated field of energy you've

established in a world where most men

remain divided against themselves

wanting peace but creating conflict

seeking connection but generating

isolation claiming virtue but acting

from shadow you become remarkable simply

by achieving basic psychological

integration developing this desexualized

mind doesn't mean eliminating sexuality

or suppressing desire it means

establishing conscious relationship with

these forces rather than unconscious

identification with them the sexuality

of the differentiated mind is actually

more powerful more profound and more

fulfilling because it flows from

wholeness rather than desperation from

genuine connection rather than

acquisition the path toward this

differentiated state begins with

psychological objectivity the capacity

to observe your internal processes

without immediately identifying with

them when sexual desire arises you

notice desire is present rather than

becoming desire itself this slight shift

creates space space between stimulus and

response space between feeling and

action space where choice becomes

possible this objectivity requires

confronting your shadow not just the

shadow of sexuality but all disowned

parts of yourself your weakness your

selfishness your dependency these

rejected aspects don't disappear when

disowned they operate autonomously from

unconsciousness hijacking your behavior

when you feel most out of control jung's

concept of the shadow stands as one of

his most crucial contributions to

psychology in ION researches into the

phenomenology of the self he writes "The

shadow is a moral problem that

challenges the whole ego personality for

no one can become conscious of the

shadow without considerable moral effort

to become conscious of it involves

recognizing the dark aspects of the

personality as present and real the

desexualized mind first requires this

moral courage the willingness to see

what most men spend their lives avoiding

jung wrote that everyone carries a

shadow and the less it is embodied in

the individual's conscious life the

blacker and denser it is your shadow

gains power not from its content but

from your refusal to acknowledge it what

you resist persists and controls you

from behind the scenes alongside this

shadow work the desexualized mind

requires strengthening the conscious ego

not inflating the ego but developing it

sufficiently to withstand the powerful

currents of the unconscious a weak ego

becomes identified with whatever psychic

content is most activated a strong ego

maintains its center while engaging with

these contents without being possessed

by them as your ego strengthens and your

shadow integrates something remarkable

emerges the scattered fragments of your

psyche gradually organize around a new

center not the ego but something more

comprehensive the self the archetype of

wholeness and the true regulating center

of the psyche jung distinguishes

carefully between the ego and the self

the ego is the center of consciousness

but the self is the center of the total

psyche including both conscious and

unconscious dimensions in two essays on

analytical psychology Jung writes that

the self is not only the center but also

the whole circumference which embraces

both conscious and unconscious it is the

center of this totality just as the ego

is the center of consciousness the

desexualized mind emerges through right

relationship between ego and self

between the limited eye of everyday

awareness and the broader intelligence

of the complete psyche from relationship

with this deeper self comes inner

authority no longer needing constant

external validation because you've

connected with an inner source of value

and meaning this inner authority is the

foundation of genuine confidence not the

brittle confidence of the inflated ego

but the quiet certainty of a man who

knows who he is young wrote extensively

about this process noting that the

attainment of the self is nothing less

than the finding of God not God as an

external deity but the God image within

the numinous center that brings order to

the psyche the self emerges as the new

organizing principle of your psychology

a center that transcends and includes

the ego as Jung explains in his seinal

work the ego and the unconscious the

relationship between ego and self

becomes the axis around which your

entire psychological life revolves the

ego no longer identifies with the

contents arising from the unconscious

but establishes a living relationship

with them this is what Jung called

active imagination dialoguing with the

inner figures and energies rather than

being possessed by them these are not

merely theoretical concepts the Yungian

process of individuation becoming the

unique individual you were meant to be

requires this fundamental shift in

psychological

orientation you cannot individuate while

remaining identified with your raw

libido the energy must be differentiated

and directed consciously toward the goal

of wholeness this process isn't linear

but cyclical you won't achieve permanent

differentiation through a single insight

you'll experience moments of clarity

followed by regression into

identification this isn't failure it's

the nature of psychological work each

cycle takes you deeper each recognition

strengthens consciousness jung named

this cyclical nature of psychological

growth the circumambulation of the self

a spiral-like movement that repeatedly

approaches the center from different

angles it is what he called the opus the

great work of psychological alchemy in

his seinal text Psychology and Alchemy

Jung demonstrates how the ancient

alchemists were not merely protochemists

but were engaged in the same

psychological process we're discussing

the transformation of base material

undifferentiated libido into gold

differentiated conscious

energy this alchemical process involves

specific operations Yung identified in

the symbolic language of alchemy the

negrado blackening the confrontation

with shadow the albido whitening the

emergence of new consciousness the

rubido reening the reintegration of

passion and instinct at a higher level

the desexualized mind corresponds to

this third stage not the elimination of

instinct but its transformation and

integration the rewards of this work

manifest in every dimension of life the

quality of your relationships

particularly with women transforms when

you're no longer using others to fulfill

unconscious needs your work becomes more

meaningful when it flows from authentic

purpose rather than compensation for

internal emptiness your entire presence

in the world shifts from taking to

giving from using to serving this shift

doesn't go unnoticed in a world drowning

in sexual objectification the man with a

desexualized mind stands as a refuge of

genuine human connection people sense

this difference immediately though they

rarely name it women particularly

respond to it finding in your presence

something increasingly precious the

experience of being seen for who they

are rather than what they can

provide you become that man in the room

everyone inexplicably gravitates toward

not because you've learned techniques or

strategies but because you've achieved

something far more fundamental

psychological differentiation from the

drives that unconsciously control most

men this is the weapon young understood

this is the power of the desexualized

mind this is what sets you apart in a

world designed to keep men identified

reactive and ultimately powerless the

question isn't whether this freedom is

possible it is the question is whether

you are willing to do what is necessary

to claim it as your own because when you

develop a desexualized mind when you

free yourself from blind identification

with sexual drive you don't become less

of a man you become what few men ever

achieve a complete human being and in

that completeness lies a power that

others can only sense but never

understand until they've experienced it

themselves so I ask you how long will

you continue living driven by forces you

don't recognize how long will you

mistake your reactions for choices how

long will you remain fragmented when

integration awaits the path toward the

desexualized mind isn't easy but those

who walk it discover what truly matters

has been within reach all along your

liberation begins with a simple shift in

awareness from blind identification to

conscious relationship from being

possessed by your desires to engaging

with them from a stable center from

psychological slavery to the freedom

that comes only through consciousness

this shift changes everything you change

and in that change lies the greatest

power a man can possess the power to

choose his own path to create his own

meaning to become the author rather than

the subject of his existence and the

world responds not because you're

manipulating it but because you've

aligned with a deeper truth of human

existence the truth that wholeness

attracts wholeness that consciousness

creates order that the integrated psyche

naturally magnetizes corresponding

circumstances jung captured this

principle elegantly until you make the

unconscious conscious it will direct

your life and you will call it fate the

desexualized mind reverses this equation

what was once fate becomes choice what

was once automatic becomes intentional

what was once driven from below now

flows from above this is the power Yung

understood this is the weapon modern man

so desperately needs yet so rarely

possesses to those who have more will be

given this isn't mystical thinking it's

psychological reality when your mind

differentiates from constant

identification with desire you establish

a field of coherence that attracts what

resonates with it opportunities

relationships meaning purpose not

because you're seeking them but because

you've become the kind of being they

naturally flow toward women feel this

coherence instantly they may not

intellectually understand why they trust

you when they don't trust others why

they open to you when they guard with

others why they remember your words when

others fade but their bodies know their

intuition knows they are in the presence

of something increasingly rare a man who

sees them rather than uses them this is

the desexualized mind modern man's

greatest weapon in a world designed for

unconsciousness this is the freedom that

awaits on the other side of

differentiation this is the power that

comes not from controlling others but

from mastering yourself the choice is

yours remain identified and controlled

by forces you refuse to recognize or

begin the journey toward psychological

freedom toward becoming the rarest and

most powerful type of man alive today

one who has achieved basic

differentiation in a world drowning in

unconscious identification everything

changes when you stop being controlled

by undifferentiated libido you change

and that change isn't the end of your

power it's the beginning of a power most

men never experience the power that

comes from psychological wholeness

 
 

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