ABSTRACT
Robert Bly and John Rowan are considered to be the principal representatives of spiritual perspective. Robert Bly's mythopoetic movement, the most widespread and influential of the spiritual approaches in the United States today, contrasts sharply with John Rowan's Wicca tradition, which is more humanistic, more political, more feminist, and less Freudian. Both Bly and Rowan agree with Jung that a boy begins life as a unity, suffers fragmentation while growing up, and thereafter pursues the process of becoming whole again. Archetypes play the same role for the spiritual perspective as nature plays for conservatism. According to Bly, men are fragmented and wounded by the Oedipal struggle as well as by forces such as industrialization. The 1950s male was the organization man, the 1960s and early 1970s male was an angry macho warrior, the late 1970s and 1980s male was a soft, femininized man. Many of Bly's ideas about current male reality appeal to adherents of the men's rights perspective.
