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 252 Episodes
The Worshipful Master: Space Creation and Barrier Removal
This episode frames the Worshipful Master’s systemic role as a space creator — designing conditions where work can emerge “harmonious and functional and good.” It focu...
The Worshipful Master: Culture, Alignment, and Referential Integrity
This episode examines the relational function of the Worshipful Master, focusing on how leadership shapes culture by setting conditions rather than performing the work...
The Worshipful Master: From Behavioral Ambiguity to Action
This episode examines the behavioral function of the Worshipful Master, focusing on how responsibility is exercised when clarity is incomplete. The role is presented a...
The Worshipful Master: Entering the Executive Function
This episode introduces the Worshipful Master as a role you can consciously step into, both within the lodge and as a mental posture in your own life. The focus is on ...
As Above, So Below Integration: Designing for What Actually Happens
This episode integrates the principle of correspondence by translating it into practical, everyday adjustments that make desired outcomes more likely. Rather than focu...
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 ...