My ex, formerly known as Entropy PUA, also known as Mark Manson and now as Mark PostMasculine, recently wrote a rather scathing and well-trafficked article critiquing America. Many of the commentators at PostMasculine have pointed out that he should have said the “United States” instead of America. No, my friends, he used exactly the correct language. And if you want to understand the TRUTH of this article hating on America, you are going to need to do something that almost nobody on this planet is doing: look beneath the surface to what is really going on.
My ex Mark PostMasculine is not running from America. I could sit here and logically debate the points he made in his article, almost none of which apply to where I live in Northern California. But that would be an utterly useless exercise, just like the hundreds of comments the article has generated. Because the article is not about America. My ex is running from AmERIKA, and all that she represents. So you see, his unconscious mind used exactly the correct word.
How deeply do you all listen to what is said around you? Can you see the deeper unconscious meanings of everything? If not, it’s time to learn this mystical language of the soul.
Mark PostMasculine and Erika Awakening
Three and a half years ago, some of you may recall, Mark PostMasculine “seduced” Erika Awakening. However, “seduced” actually is not the correct word. What Mark PostMasculine did is defraud Erika Awakening. He committed what I call “sexual fraud,” which is where a man obtains sex from a woman with a combination of false pretenses and false promises. Mark PostMasculine offered Erika Awakening a long-term relationship, including talk about marriage, combining our businesses, and moving in together in San Francisco. After he obtained sex, he reneged on all of his promises. To this day, he still has not honored his word or been accountable in any way. He ran from true love.
He justifies this in his own mind by telling himself that “he changed his mind” and that “he owes Erika Awakening nothing.” But you see, deep down in his heart, he knows this is bullshit. Everyone has a conscience. Some people have buried their conscience, as he obviously has. And that is why Mark PostMasculine must run. He would be chartering flights to Mars if they were available, because he cannot run far enough to get away from God and his own conscience.
How many of the women that Mark PostMasculine has bedded were seduced under false pretenses? I don’t know, but I’d probably cut his number in half at least. I am aware from his own communications with me of a number of other women left angry and disgruntled by his unethical behavior, and I am aware of one woman who was so angry that she actually sought to harm him (I’m going to leave details out because they are personal).
So you wonder why Mark PostMasculine is running from America?
Let me make it very clear, that I have no intention of harming Mark PostMasculine in any way. I do not wish for him to be harmed. I wish for him to wake up and be healed and find the light and the conscience within himself. I wish for him to understand the importance of keeping his word and for him to make good with the people he has fucked over. And until he gets that healing, he has no business giving dating advice to anyone else.
It is ironic that the article begins with comparing America to an alcoholic brother, because in a 12-step program, Mark PostMasculine could probably face his addiction to foreign travel and escapism. A self-admitted avoidant, he has been running away from his problems for years (which is what people do when they drink out of control). Part of his 12-step program would be making amends with people like me whom he fucked over in his dissociated addictive state.
The problem, Mark PostMasculine, is that wherever you go, there you still are. And until you face the demons within yourself, you will NEVER have true peace. Which means you may be run run running for decades. Unless you are willing to try something different for a change.
Which, irony of ironies, is what I offer through Holistic Belief Reprogramming. I offer the cure to Mark PostMasculine’s problem. I offer the method by which he can face all of his demons and find inner peace and integrity. And that scares the shit out of him.
So he is running from Amerika. What does Amerika represent? She represents the Divine Feminine. Homeland has long been associated with the Feminine, and is a symbol of his tortured relationship with women. She also represents the root chakra and grounding into the nurturing of Mother Earth. And in this case, she represents healing and the end of exploitative ego consciousness. His return to Amerika represents the Holy Union of Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine in God. The lifting of the veil and the return to the Garden of Eden.
That’s what Mark PostMasculine is running away from. That’s what we all are running away from when we participate in compulsive hamster wheel patterns of abuse and addiction. We fight against healing, happiness, and love in countless ways. The only way we can continue to deceive ourselves is never to become still and quiet and listen to the Voice for God within us. Which is what compulsive foreign travel and hundreds of blog comments accomplishes. So much noise and busy-ness that the Voice for God is almost completely drowned out.
Well, you can run from God, but you cannot hide. God will not be mocked. Eventually karma catches up with all of us, as it did for Erika Awakening with her near-death experience in 2006 (read more here). God’s Voice will be heard, and healing will be accomplished. When this happens doesn’t really matter, because God ensures a happy outcome for all situations.
Last week, I purchased the domain http://postfeminine.com. It is not set up yet, but my intention for the new site is to provide a counterpoint of honesty and accountability to a seduction community that all too often is running with no integrity and no guiding higher values. The Voice of the Divine Feminine has been silenced, ridiculed, and suppressed for far too long in our culture. No more. She shall be heard. The running shall cease. And we will bring Heaven to Earth. Sooner than you think.
Postscript: PostFeminine is now live – check it out here at http://postfeminine.com
Venus is in Gemini. Everyone might notice something shifting in your relationships. A shift to where you are more open, flexible, and tolerant of others and other ways of doing things.
Thanks Renate. There also are two full moons this month. I am definitely noticing a softening in relationships, for the most part.
Btw, I’m going to draw a boundary with some of the comments. Ground yourself and speak from a place of love, or don’t comment here. You’re not helping yourself or anyone else by spewing hate, fear, and limiting beliefs. Last comment was deleted. Thanks for your understanding.
And don’t be fooled by your ego’s bravado. When you spew fear and hate, you don’t look courageous. You look like a coward who won’t face his own shit.
From here on out, folks, if you want your comments published on this thread, they will need to have an entirely new tone. You are all having extreme reactions to this post because of what is not healed in YOU. Own it, or you are not going to comment here.
While you all have been carrying on here with hate and fear and limiting beliefs, my ex and I have been having the most mutually respectful conversation we have had in years. As I have said, Mark is fundamentally a good person and I believe in him. When people come from a place of mutual respect and a commitment to respectful communication, a happy resolution is always possible. That’s all I’m going to say about it for now.
[...] Today we address Seven PostMasculine Avoidance Strategies that only make the problem bigger. Please bear in mind that the intention of this article is the healing of the relationship between PostMasculine and PostFeminine. Avoidance blocks healing. If you missed the back story about why I am writing this series of articles about my ex Mark PostMasculine, you can catch up on the background here. [...]
Hey Erika,
Listen, I think you are wrong on this and in pain yourself. You feel used and rightfully so, but it is time to move on. I mean, Mark is probably partying off somewhere while you are at home waiting for him to come back. It’s not going to happen!
As for his post being about “amErika” I really do think you are reading way too much into it. If you’ve traveled outside the US, you know that MOST other women in the world are WAY more feminine, well except for Germany. On another note, no one thinks of South America or any other country except the United States when someone says, “America”
In any case, hope your pain heals. I’ll be sending loving vibes your way!
I’ll be writing another article shortly at http://postfeminine.com about why all of you are playing so small and expecting so little from life. Understand that just because you are setting your sights so low, doesn’t mean that I am doing the same.
Be on notice, world. Mark PostMasculine is my soulmate and my life partner. Be on notice, world. Nobody and nothing is going to stand in the way of Mark PostMasculine and I being together. Be on notice, world. If anyone thinks that he or she is going to stand in the way of Mark and I being together, you have no fucking clue how the Universe works or how powerful I have become.
Devil’s Advocate, I won’t be publishing any more of your comments until you stop being a coward. You are projecting just like the others. Take responsibility for your own shit, or don’t comment here. You live in fear every day. It’s beyond pathetic. All of you need to be using my products so you can start to have the slightest bit of courage. In any case, this is a firm boundary. No more of these comments here. If you enjoy writing stuff that goes in the trash, you are welcome to continue.
I don’t understand how I am being a coward. What am I projecting. I am married and living my life with a beautiful woman. I don’t understand how I am living in fear, please elaborate. Why is it pathetic, bc I disagree with what YOU think? I think that was harsh on your part. Thought you were about love, not hate on here. I did not mean to upset you.
I know what you are going through and so do your readers. We have all been in pain, it blinds us to the truth. We have all at one point in our lives believed OUR truth to be REALITY. Still if he was really your soulmate he never would have done what he did. You are showing unconditional love by forgiving him and welcoming him back, but even if he does come back, there is no guarantee he will not do this again down the road. Would you be able to deal with this again?
Hi Erika! I hope it’s going well per your comments ” my ex and I have been having the most mutually respectful conversation we have had in years.” Please share any updates.
I know this whole thing is difficult, and when people are rude on top it doesn’t help, because often when someone is rude/mean it must hurt a little too.
I noticed one thing that may further allow some of their unwarranted anger and even fear is when you retaliate and put them back down. One trigger becomes the trigger of another. Maybe that’s me reading into things. There is no intonation in typed messages, and you may be very matter of fact most of the time.
However, when you say things like “all of you are playing so small and expecting so little from life” and “you have no fucking clue how the Universe works,” it feels like retaliation. As Neil Young wrote and sang, “No one wins. It’s a war of man.”
I appreciate the more circumspect tone of these last two comments. At least I feel a little bit of openness from you.
However, I am not going to explain myself. Nothing that you all think is the “way life is” is the way life is after you begin practicing my coaching method, Holistic Belief Reprogramming (http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr).
I can see the Matrix, and I can change the Matrix. Nothing anyone has learned before they learn this has any application anymore. It would take hours and hours for me to explain all this, and I’m not going to do it here. That’s what my coaching programs are for.
You sound like a zealot.
I think mark wants you back. Keep going, I hear wedding bells!!!!!! “
Erika, we knew you at O’Melveny; a pair of your former colleagues. We read these things and want to know what we can do to help our beautiful girl
[...] many people have attacked me for following my intuition with my ex. But at this point I know better than to listen to their “logic.” A truly feminine [...]
Hi, thanks for the support.
I invite all of you to check out the most recent article here about what it means to be feminine (or masculine for that matter):
http://postfeminine.com/how-to-be-feminine-mystique-power-grace-new-definition-femininity
Love,
Erika Awakening
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Wait, you want him to come back and keep his promise? Dude, if you’re not feeling it, you’re not feeling it. That’s like getting mad at a girl for changing her mind and telling her “You SAID we’d be together”.
Is your advice to me in that situation to tell the woman that and remind her of the promise. Sure, he has issues. You knew that going in. The issues came up. Surprise.
When I look at the overall comments here, what is shocking is how low our standards are in general about relationships, and how far everyone will go out of their way to apologize for and rationalize unacceptable behavior.
This situation is a simple matter of integrity and keeping one’s word and following through on representations that were made in order to obtain sex and emotional investment from me.
It’s not any more complicated than that, and the justice that is called for is equally simple. Mark PostMasculine needs to keep the promises he made to me. And that’s that.
[...] think it’s time for the world to hear the entire story of how Mark PostMasculine persuaded me to have sex with him, with representations of offering me a long…. Dozens of men were pursuing me at that time, and I said “no” to them left and right. I [...]
[...] I think it’s time for the world to hear the entire story of how Mark PostMasculine persuaded me to have sex with him, with representations of offering me a long…. Dozens of men were pursuing me at that time, and I said “no” to them left and right. I [...]
[...] So, it’s time, Mark PostMasculine. I’ve been asking you for a mediation of this situation for several years. And instead of facing me and yourself and doing the right thing, you have been running away … all …. [...]
[...] This is not a man with courage, folks. This is not a man who has any business teaching courage to anyone. This is a COWARD who cannot and will not face his life. That is why he avoids me. That is why he runs, traveling incessantly. The only way he can emotionally manage his unclear conscience about what he did to me is to dissociate and avoid his own feelings. And that is why he is running from America. [...]
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I Thank you for this post, I am 4 years out of a relationship that was as close to perfect as I ever expected for my life. I have found myself dealing with the ashes of my relationship and finally after a couple years have moved to a new life. he have worked very hard on not looking back and having that interfere with the future that I wish to create for myself. But I have not been able to “stop” loving my ex. I really have struggled to find a open unfilled fertile ground for finding love elsewhere. In the past I would have simply never seen her again and freed myself of constant reminders, but we have a child together and its not an option.
[...] from his blog. People are calling him out on the censorship, and he deletes those comments too. There is a reason he has been running away from America for years (read about that here). There is a reason he had to get dozens of notches on his belt in a futile attempt to feel good [...]
[...] You can check out Erika’s article where she bashed Entropy PUA: Mark Manson running from America. [...]
Erika – why would you try to mess with someone – regardless of their trespasses – if you truly embraced the spiritual path? Mark Manson is just a dispossessed little boy like so many other men in the world. I can’t blame him for wanting to have sex with you and I can’t blame him for lying to do it. That’s what little boys do, they pursue their own pleasure. Why don’t you just let the whole thing go and devote yourself to matters of a higher purposes. Otherwise your ‘jilted lover’ response is likely to harm your credibility for no real gain.
“sexual fraud,” which is where a man obtains sex from a woman with a combination of false pretenses and false promises
So, you behaved like a prostitute then = you selled sex for MM’s promises ?!
Shit, now I know why he’s running away from her…
Ahhhh, the fine art of projection.
“I see only my past thoughts. I see nothing as it is now.”
Inviting all of you to check out the latest three 30-Day Challenges that I recorded over the past few weeks. Finishing up the third one now. There is a method to my madness. There is a reason I get all the anger and grievances to the surface … so they can be cleared. Get on board and clear your anger so you can cleanse the dark images from your mind:
http://www.tapsmarter.com/self-sabotage-top-three-blocks-to-your-success/
Sorry what?
Erika, if you really practiced what you preached, you’d have valued all the good times you had with him until the break up, including sex, which is a gift that man gives a woman. You are placing 0 value in the sex, which I believe is strange for somebody like you. Because you are coming from a place where you think sex is something given or taken, instead of just being an expression of appreciation for everything you are (IE. THE ULTIMATE ACT OF LOVE CAPABLE IN PHYSICAL FORM / ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF AFFECTION AND THE REASON BABIES ARE MADE) then you take it as a MASSIVE compliment that Mark wanted to sleep with you. Because you don’t value the divine miracle that is sex, you are acting like you were given nothing, like a spoilt little girl, maybe the two of you could have had a long term relationship (AS FRIENDS) if you’d have just put away your claws so he could safely approach. Grow up.
That’s an interesting perspective. It does not address the fraud aspect of all this, that all this was done under pretenses that were false. If it had actually happened, it would be unforgivable.
Fortunately, it didn’t actually happen. Everything we experience is an illusion. And four years spent healing my unconscious means it just doesn’t matter anymore. See latest article: http://postfeminine.com/resolving-conflicts
I love you Erika and hate what Mark did to you hear. Just say the word and tell me what I need to do this guy to make sure things are right again