![]() ![]() Gordon's books helped expose the nature of the father wound which of course has been around for thousands of years but has not been fully appreciated until recent times. His book influenced such men as Richard Rohr, Robert Lewis, Robert Bly, John Eldredge and many others. Long before John Eldredge wrote 'Wild at Heart' in 2001 (which really struck a chord with men the world over and sold millions of copies) a guy named Gordon Dalbey wrote 'Healing the Masculine Soul' in 1988 which become an inspiration for the international men's movement. If we want our kids to have a future, with hope and dignity to it, we have got to get fatherhood back". ![]() In the trailer for the same documentary John Eldredge says, " On the surface, if you take snapshots of western culture right now the prognosis is not good. I was never taught how to step up and become a man". " He left a note and it wasn't even to me. ![]() In the same interview he told how his father left home when he was only thirteen years of age. This is what he said, " There is a father wound that you never really recover from". James Hetfield, frontman for the band Metallica spoke about the importance of fathers in a recent interview about a documentary movie called ' Absent '. ![]()
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