Chapter 7 Self starts with Robert Bly's Iron John about "a crisis of identity in American manhood caused largely by the prevalence of broken relationships between fathers and sons" which is a whole issue about this chapter and Vincent decides to go to Men's secret meeting where she learns a totally different side of only "men" community unlike at the monastery. The guys who attend the meeting come on their own will for self-help and their approach to the reality is different from any group of men Vincent has encountered before. They learn how to communicate and speak their inner sides and be connected and engaged in a casual way and much more adjustable way. It definitely shocked Ned and Ned himself was undergoing a hard time preparing to end this a-year-long journey under confusion and emotional conflicts in him. Being afraid to step in in a different atmosphere of men group pressed Vincent down from feeling free and fully engaging. At the end of the chapter, she consciously questioned herself on the subject of 'truly know what is it like to be a man' out of self-confusion and tiredness. I think she had some Self time to think back what she has accomplished so far to gather justifiably for the book.
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