Session 31 - As a Gay Man, I think Ra's take on Homosexuality is idiotic

[Sacred Fool]

Just to throw another stone into the soup, in my view, a person gets more spiritual mileage from, not merely either experiencing or dodging or expressing emotional eruptions, but by also tracking the beast back to its lair, as it were, and opening up an energy exchange with it.  

Just to invent an example, I find myself welling up with anger.  I catch it early and let it spin its wheels on the periphery of my energy, rather than giving it front and center prominence by acting on it directly.  My response in the moment is informed by the anger, but not controlled by it.  Later on, I track the anger back to a deep feeling of defensiveness.  Behind that it is emotional hurt behind that is screaming pain.  Behind that is a congealed feeling of hopelessness and neglect.  

From there I sit with it, gently exchanging love for hopelessness.  Eventually I bring in other energies to help that "blockage" resolve and unravel and release.  And we all live happily ever after....for a little while, until I again find rage welling up from some other source.