A powerful teacher. I am reminded of his work.

Date:   5/4/2007 2:34:57 PM ( 17 y ago)

12:26 PM
May 4, 07

"Roaming in Dreamland Hungry for Home"

Robert Augustus Masters

Xanthyros Alliance

604.922.8745

"Truth cannot be Rehearsed"

Stunning, Truth Telling Books
from a Powerful Teacher.

I went in the basement to find a book
by this man.

Twin Soul/Best Friend was needing
this now.


Robert Augustus Masters' Ayahuasca Journey:


http://infinitespiral.blogspot.com/2006/02/robert-augustus-masters-ayahuasca....



Woman's Anger

http://www.robertmasters.com/Blog_HTML/BLOG_apr07.html


The disempowerment of women has, among other things, meant the suppression and devaluation of their anger. Where male anger, despite anger’s supposedly “lower” origins, has in many circumstances — war, contact sports, vigilante heroics — often been viewed as healthy, morally justified, righteously ass-kicking, or even ennobling, female anger has generally been viewed much less favorably, as illustrated by our less-than-flattering labels for angry women. He’s hotheaded, pissed off, letting off some steam, taking care of business, etcetera; she’s a nag or bitch.

Thus have anger-in or anger-suppressing practices tended to be more expected of women than men. Anger is culturally held as far less legitimate an expression for women than for men. The result is that for many women anger is unavailable as a resource. A woman marooned from her own anger is likely to have a harder time maintaining healthy boundaries; she may feel more helpless, more fearful, more prone to despair and depression. When her anger cannot be depressed — kept or pressed down — its energies may be routed into resentment or bitterness. And what a pity this is, given that anger can be, even in its fieriness, a form of caring. In groupwork I have often seen a woman’s rage — full-out, clean rage — cut through the cognitive muddling of her partner or other men, waking them up to what they’re actually doing.

For anger actually to be a resource in relationship requires not only that it be permitted its innate vulnerability, but that it also be valued, and valued equally, in both women and men. So long as female anger is treated as something less worthy of respect than male anger, relational approaches to anger will remain superficial or unproductive. The creation of empowering relational contexts for anger presupposes both familiarity with cultural attitudes toward female anger, plus a deep recognition of anger as legitimate, useful, and necessary in building and maintaining better connection in relationships.

As female rage emerges culturally — and it has been a very recent emergence — it is crucial that it not be trivialized, negated, geisha’ed away, or misrepresented. Films like Misery and Fatal Attraction, by dramatizing the pathological extremes of female rage, may — however inadvertently — work against a more positive reception of female rage. For example, women watching the latter film might well disown their own fury through siding with the “good” (read: non-raging) woman in the film. Yet the woman expressing non-abusive rage is no murderess, psycho, or Medusa gone into isolation, but rather a potent awakener, present to varying degrees in “everyday” women whose anger is significantly infused with caring. Wrathful compassion.

Just because many men fear female anger or rage --
retreating like frantic sperm from the suddenly
engulfing power of the ovum -- is no reason to slander or suppress it.

Your rage storms the breath
empties the stands
awakens the room
blasts through the walls
A full-bellied heartfist
petals exploding all around
your sobbing breast
drawing from this suddenly breathing room
tears and deeper tears
greening overgrazed eyes
and hidden hollows
Your eyes no longer yours but ours
pools of maternal fury
Your voice a summons to wake up
Now!
Not just release this rage
but holy fire and baptism
cutting through the paradox-stained
debris of exploded rationality
Your voice burning bright
burning through all the catharsis
to the us beyond us
Silence moves in now, takes over
Your whole body smiling so sweet and so deep
your tender immensity cradling all
inviting us into truer lands
where anger and love
go hand in hand


The fiery intensity at the heart of anger
asks not for smothering, spiritual rehabilitation,
psychological marginalization, nor mere discharge,
but rather for a mindful embrace that does not necessarily
require any dilution of passion, any lowering of the heat,
nor any muting of the essential voice in the flames.

____




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