Brian Mattocks
Host and Founder of A Mason's Work - a podcast designed to help you use symbolism to grow. He's been working in the craft for over a decade and served as WM, trustee, and sat in every appointed chair in a lodge - at least once :D
Appears in 187 Episodes
As Above, So Below: Systemically Align to Reality & Regain Agency
This episode frames the systemic application of correspondence as the practice of aligning your objectives to the way the world actually works, rather than trying to f...
As Above, So Below: Relational Alignment Over Force
This episode explores the relational dimension of the principle of correspondence, focusing on how attempts to influence others succeed or fail based on alignment rath...
As Above, So Below: Behavioral Patterns as Mirrors
This episode examines the behavioral application of the principle of correspondence, focusing on how outward actions can be read as indicators of underlying thought an...
As Above, So Below: The Principle of Correspondence - A Useful Lens, Not a Fact
This episode introduces the principle of correspondence, often expressed as “as above, so below” or “as within, so without,” and reframes it as a functional lens rathe...
The Compasses — Integration: Noticing Boundaries and Bringing Other Tools to the Work
This episode steps back to look across the entire Compasses series and clarifies the true function of the Compasses: noticing boundaries and boundary violations. While...
The Compasses — Episode 4: Capacity, Appetite, and Cycles of Collapse
This episode examines the Compasses at a systemic level, where growth, demand, and capacity interact over time. Rather than treating expansion as inherently positive, ...
The Compasses — Episode 3: Boundary Dignity and the Conditions for Trust
This episode examines the Compasses at a relational level, where boundaries become the primary mechanism for trust, predictability, and mutual understanding. Rather th...
The Compasses - Episode 2: Containment Without Suppression
This episode examines the Compasses at the behavioral level, where the work is neither moral purity nor self-denial, but awareness and redirection. Rather than suppres...
The Compasses — Episode 1: Circumscribing Desire Without Suppression
This opening episode introduces the Compasses as more than a moral restraint, framing them instead as a diagnostic tool for understanding boundaries, ambition, and car...
The Ruffians Within — Episode 5: Movement, Noticing, and the Refusal to Stand Still
This concluding episode integrates the previous discussions of fear, uncertainty, and doubt into a single developmental insight: the true objective of the Ruffians Wit...
The Ruffians Within — Episode 4: Doubt and the Justification of Inaction
This episode examines doubt as the most subtle and intellectually respectable of the Ruffians Within. Unlike fear or uncertainty, doubt often presents itself as rigor,...
The Ruffians Within — Episode 3: Uncertainty Disguised as Virtue
This episode examines uncertainty as a ruffian that rarely announces itself honestly. Instead, it hides behind socially praised virtues like patience, tolerance, and c...
The Ruffians Within — Episode 2: Fear and the Silencing of Speech
This episode examines fear as the first of the Ruffians Within—not as a villain to be destroyed, but as a psychological function that can either protect or paralyze. T...
The Ruffians Within — Episode 1: Naming the Internal Saboteurs
This opening episode introduces the Three Ruffians as internal forces that quietly undermine growth and agency. Rather than treating them as external villains, the epi...
The World - Part IV: Becoming Part of the Living System
At the systemic level, the world reveals itself as a living structure—moving with you, through you, and without you. This episode explores how the world operates as a ...
The World - Part III: The Social World and the Architecture of Relationship
At the relational level, the world reveals itself as a network of interacting systems—human, cultural, social, and behavioral. This episode explores how we learn from ...
The World – Part II: Behavior, Reality, and the Work of Adjustment
This episode examines the world as the domain of behavioral truth—the difference between what we imagine, intend, or feel and what we actually do. The world reflects o...
The World – Part I: The Field Where the Work Is Tested
In this opening episode, the World is introduced as the place where Masonic ideals encounter friction, resistance, and consequence. The Lodge is where tools are learne...
The Craft Series – Part III: Building the Future Together
At the systemic level, the Craft becomes a framework for understanding how groups build across time. This episode explores how collective work scales beyond individual...
The Craft Series – Part II: The Human Architecture of Collaboration
At the relational level, the Craft reveals the subtle architecture of how people work together—how strengths complement weaknesses, how frictions become information, a...