Before my Arete I strongly believed that it was wrong to express or feel anger, disgust or to a certain extent even sadness. To acquaintances I can imagine I appeared ever patient, ever considerate, ever happy. Though in the arena of the Arete Community and to folks who have done a lot of work with authenticity, radical honesty and so forth my happy act was not so impressive. As well the people most close to me were unfortunate to experience the explosions of emotions I rained down after bottling up.

Since Arete I have slowly come to know the difference between anger and violence; that anger can be a powerful cleansing and even healing force Continue reading →