What happens when the cultural image of a "lumberjack" man—all power and might—no longer fits the reality of the soul?

In this third episode of Follow Me to the M-R-O-P!, host Brian Mueller sits down with Charlie Myking for a candid conversation about his 2018 initiation at Ghost Ranch. Charlie draws a profound parallel between the rites and his earlier experience of "hitting bottom" in recovery, describing the weekend not as a workshop, but as a necessary cycle of letting go to be filled by a power greater than himself.

Charlie reflects on the rugged beauty of the New Mexico wilderness, from the fascinating simplicity of "dried buffalo dung" on a solo wander to the moment he found the "soul brother" he had been seeking for years. He shares how sitting at the ...