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Rite Action proposes a direct way to counteract and defeat the 3-D game of perpetration: division, deceit, domination. I question the claim that people who intentionally divide, deceive, and dominate others can be overcome by loving them, radiating love to them, surrounding oneself with a field of love, and so forth. While such methods may immunize us, and produce a positive field that emanates to the world at large, they fall short of direct confrontation with evil-doing, i.e., human auto-destructive tendencies operating in the social sphere. Also, I would warn that to some extent, at least, such glowing claims are pretexts for remaining locked in victim-perpetrator collusion.

Having said that, I must emphasize that I am not proposing hatred as an alternative way to overcome perpetration—because love (in my humble view) is not up to the task. The power behind Rite Action is not hatred but rage. Pure selfless rage. Black rage. Transpersonal rage. Lest anyone be frightened off by this extremely charged term, rage, take a moment to consider this notion: rage might have a transcendent aspect. It might even be regarded as a factor of human generosity, not merely a negative, destructive, or reactive trait. Nature is full of rage. Gaia can be a rageful goddess: consider the lion-headed Sekmet in Egyptian mythology, to cite one of countless examples. The power of rage is innate to human nature and prevalent in the animal kingdoms, as well as among birds, serpents, and insects. I propose that rage be regarded as a kind of resource—even a moral resource—and not something to be condemned or repressed.

Rite Action proposes the recognition of pure, transersonal rage as a resource for facing and overcoming the forces that defy the innate goodness of humankind and work against the symbiotic unity of life.

http://www.metahistory.org/RiteActionintro.php


(and this article expreses my path pretty well I think)