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Crying
One of the most important functions of the human body
One of my favorite spiritual teachers, Sheradon Bryce, often reiterated the extreme importance of crying. She said that crying is an extremely important function of the human body. She said that it was literally impossible to release anything at all until the body shed a tear. It is through the physical release of that tear that we release things. Nothing is ever truly released until that tear is propelled out of our body.
I’ve been thinking about that for around 30 years or so and I am finally starting to get it. We cannot have a spiritual release or a mental release until we also have a physical release. And that physical release comes in the form of crying.
It is the natural human way. It is a profoundly beautiful act.
In our Western society based on predatory capitalism males are taught from a very young age not to ever cry. It is a sign of weakness. It is something only females do. (Or gays.) It is a sign of vulnerability — something no male must ever show.
Is that why males are lagging behind in our collective human evolution? Is that why they are still living in the 1700s? Is that why their predatory mentality is never released? Is that why their mental and spiritual and physical baggage continues to get in the way of any significant…
