When you touch the
Warrior Quester’s
shadow, it quite often forces you—possibly for the first
time ever—to
consciously confront your own shadow. You realize
how much a Warrior Quester
you, yourself, have been and
are!
Truly, the discipline of practicing nonviolence requires that
you own your own violence,
not that you avoid or repress it.
Practicing nonviolence is
a way of
creatively imagining and transforming
your own violent shadow.
If you’ve attempted
to name and honor the Mother Goddess, you might
have experienced the horrified reaction of lone male Father God
worshippers—Pagan! Witch! Satanic worshipper!
If you’ve attempted to honor
the feminine within yourself—homo,
queer, lesbian, fag, degenerate, wimp …words not
said as compliments.
If you’ve protested
against the abuse and rape of Mother Earth…tear
gas, tree huggers, naive romantics, eco-terrorists...words of fear,
dreadful fear, that name you as an Intimate Enemy.
If you've struggled for civil
rights, for human rights...idealist,unAmerican,
not patriotic, fool's errand!—and any list of racist, sexist
or marginalizing rants, curses {Nigger lover! Queer! Commie!
Jew lover! Traitor! Pervert!}
Continue—Attention
