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Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Last post 12-14-2007, 12:15 PM by tamgoddess. 6 replies.
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11-06-2007, 9:46 AM |
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Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Arthur/adastra says: I'd love to hear another dialog with Robert Augustus about his new book Transformation Through Intimacy.
His previous dialog with Integral Naked was very popular and generated
huge amounts of positive feedback. I've spoken with several people who
did phone and/or individual/group work with Robert as a result of
hearing that dialog, in a couple of cases moving long distances to be
close enough to do more work with him!
It would be great to hear Robert talk about his latest thoughts on
embodied integral therapy and shadow work, especially his feelings on
relational intimacy as a transformational process. Working with Robert
and studying his work has been a great help for me and my wife
Liz/Tamgoddess, who I originally met on Integral Naked some years ago.
In any case, the book itself is fantastic and I highly recommend it!
spiral out,
arthur
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The
journey toward mature monogamy is not necessarily easy, for it asks —
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passage, bringing us into deepening intimacy with all that we are,
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fulfilling relationship.
Immature monogamy entraps; mature monogamy liberates.
Freedom through intimacy.
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11-06-2007, 9:54 AM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Here's the description of Robert's first Integral Naked dialog:
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Radical Intimacy and the Search for a More Integral Wholeness
Robert Augustus Masters
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Robert Augustus Masters is author of numerous books on the integration of body, sex, emotions, and spirituality, including The Anatomy and Evolution of Anger, Freedom Doesn’t Mind Its Chains, and Divine Dynamite.
With a Ph.D. in psychology, Robert has practiced psychotherapy for over
three decades, and is also skilled at bodywork, meditation, and group
facilitation.
In response to Stuart’s curiosity, Robert begins by sharing the
event that fundamentally changed his life nearly a dozen years ago. As
he explains, everything shifted dramatically after an extremely intense
experience with a variant of the psychedelic, DMT. Even though this
variation of DMT was (and is) legal, Robert stopped breathing, nearly
died, and proceeded to endure nine months of unrelenting anxiety,
terror, and psycho-spiritual hell.
Because of this experience, Robert learned the art of bearing the
unbearable, and now part of the work he does is guiding others into
those inner places that scare them witless. But this is no masochistic
endeavor. Robert understands that hidden in the shadows of our psyche
are pockets of energy, awareness, and self that can be liberated if
approached skillfully. For those who want to undertake such a journey,
Robert can help one digest difficult experiences directly, with no
running away, no escape, no wallflowers allowed, only a naked
willingness to dance with all of existence.
Robert and Stuart go on explore how a more integral psychology
uses a deep toolbox of methodologies to initiate authentic healing,
because the essential foundation for spiritual awakening is a whole
person, not a fractured one. Ideally, there should first emerge a
strong ego, with all the boundaries and distinctions of a healthy human
psyche, before it’s recommended that one start attempting to transcend
that individual self-sense. Robert contends that bodywork and
psychotherapy are important tools to help avoid spiritual bypassing or
the error of using meditation and ego transcendence to escape lingering
issues and disowned shadow elements.
Likewise, an integral, AQAL approach to spirituality would posit
that yes, if you try, you can realize the very Ground and Suchness of
reality with a fractured self-sense, but your vehicle of enlightenment,
your unique manifestation of infinity, will remain exactly as
shattered. Just because psychological fractures aren’t as grossly
obvious as a broken leg doesn’t mean the fractures don’t exist; they
simply go undetected more easily. But whether you’re enlightened or
not, a broken leg is a broken leg, and in both cases you can’t walk.
The same is true for a fractured psyche: enlightened or not, it’s still
just as broken, and it will hobble one’s expression of liberation.*
This general concept is something Robert understands deeply, and one
of the ways that he expresses this understanding is through his
emphasis on radical intimacy. As he explains, he used to pursue “freedom from” life. Now, freedom can be found through radical intimacy with life—all
of it. “For me healing is to make whole,” and as Robert so skillfully
shows us, sometimes a deeper freedom is found in going towards the
darkness, not the light.
We hope you enjoy this inspiring dialogue exploring the exhilaration
and satisfaction of a truly integral wholeness; the wholeness of
unified parts, and the wholeness of a Unity that could never be
otherwise....
(For those who are interested, there is an extremely active thread
in the IN forum exploring Robert’s work, including responses from
Robert, which you can participate in here)
*To learn more about an integral approach to spirituality, check out “What Is Integral Spirituality?” |
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transmission time: 36 minutes |
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keywords: authenticity,
psychotherapy, integral toolbox, DMT, ayahuasca, radical intimacy,
altered states, intuition, spiritual emergency, spiritual bypassing, The Anatomy and Evolution of Anger, prepersonal, transpersonal, interpersonal, pre/trans fallacy, regression, the shadow, skillful means, conscious relationship, Genpo Roshi, trans-verbal, Freedom Doesn’t Mind Its Chains, “What Is Integral?,” A Theory of Everything. |
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most memorable moment: “It
used to be ‘Freedom from’... but now I understand that real freedom can
be found through limitations, and, even more germane, ‘Freedom through
intimacy....’” |
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11-06-2007, 9:58 AM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Here is the Integral Naked bio of Robert Augustus Masters: Who Is Robert Augustus Masters?www.RobertMasters.com Robert
Augustus Masters was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1947. From
an early age he was an avid artist and dreamer, but in high school
switched under pressure to the sciences, which he stayed with until he
found himself at the age of 21 in a Ph.D. program in Biochemistry. A
year later, only a few hours after a dream of ecstatic dying, he left
his doctoral program, and began an odyssey of intense travel, initially
outer, then inner.
As he did so, his passion for the arts reemerged, especially through
writing. He began meditating, doing yoga, and exploring cutting-edge
therapies. By 1977 he was working as a therapist and bodyworker. From
the beginning, his approach was integral and spontaneous, creatively
combining the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Structure was
not (and still is not) preset, but was (and still is) allowed to emerge
in accordance with individual and group needs.
With the publication of his critically acclaimed, hard-hitting book The Way of the Lover
in 1988, Robert became increasingly well known for the depth,
creativity, efficiency, and transformative power of his sessions and
groupwork, and his work soon spread worldwide. Two more books, Love Must Also Weep and Truth Cannot Be Rehearsed, soon followed.
In 1994, his life abruptly and dramatically changed, following an
extremely harrowing near-death experience (described in his
groundbreaking book Darkness Shining Wild: An Odyssey to the Heart
of Hell and Beyond: Meditations on Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality,
& Liberation), after which he resumed his work, but in a more radically inclusive and compassionate manner.
Evolving in fitting parallel with Robert’s work has been his
writing. In 2024 his essay Wrathful Compassion: Transpersonal
Approaches to Anger won the Editor’s Award for the best article of the
year in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. His latest books
(besides Darkness Shining Wild) are Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening’s Heartland, Freedom Doesn’t Mind Its Chains: Revisioning Sex, Body, Emotion, & Spirituality, and Anger: An Integral Exploration. His poetry runs rampant through all his writing, keeping his prose on its toes.
Robert’s passion is to fuel, illuminate, support, and articulate the
living of a deeper life, a life of love, integrity, and full-blooded
awakening. Much of his teaching is rooted in finding freedom through
intimacy—intimacy not only with others and with various states, but
with all that is. There is deep joy for him in passing on what he has
learned, most recently through his apprenticeship programs (in Integral
Counselling) and his newsletter. Details on this and his groupwork can
be found at his website.
Robert is also a father, husband (in such deep partnership with his
beloved wife Diane that he’ll soon be writing a new book about deep
relational intimacy) table tennis warrior, runner and dumbbell-lifter,
wild salmon chef, fussy sleeper, and lover of the profoundly
superficial. His next project is a book of his poetry that includes a
CD of his more lyrical poetry set to music and sung by Diane, who is a
professional singer/energy-worker with a gift for accessing the sacred
through sound.
“An extraordinarily poetic writer with great insights.”
—Ram Dass
“Masters transforms the spiritual landscape with the mind-bending
freshness of his prose. With the dexterity of the true master, he
shatters complacency and razes the familiar with startling beauty.”
—Jenny Wade
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11-06-2007, 11:33 AM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy Dialog?
yep, get him back on IN with another interview, talking about his new book.... that is a great idea.
Jane
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11-09-2007, 6:51 AM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy Dialog?
Robert's dialogue with Stuart rocked. Another round would be great.
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12-14-2007, 9:36 AM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Arthur/adastra says: Robert is on a live internet radio program RIGHT NOW talking about mature monogamy; go to this link:
http://006b886.netsolhost.com/coachingmoment/?page_id=18
Sorry for the late notice; the show will apparently be archived, so you should have a chance to listen to it later.
spiral out,
arthur
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12-14-2007, 12:15 PM |
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Re: Transformation Through Intimacy - Robert Augustus Masters
Arthur/adastra says: Hi all Here's the page that with the archived version of the show (in mp3 format). Scroll down and you will see it listed thus: ~~~ Fri, Dec 14, 2024 | Authentic Femininity Show | Length: 71 min. (12691.592Kb) | Open Podcast Chat History | | "Host: Robin Hoffman, MA-Denver, Colorado
Technical Producer: Coach Steve Toth
Guest: Robert Masters, Psychotherapist, author and facilitator ..." |
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(Or just use the "Open Podcast" link above to download it.) It was a great show and I'm looking forward to listening to it again. :) spiral out, arthur
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