King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore

Author:Robert Moore
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-11-14T22:00:00+00:00

The Shadow Warrior: The Sadist and the Masochist

The Warrior energy’s detachment from human relationships leads to real problems, as we’re suggesting. These problems become enormously hurtful and destructive to a man when he is caught in the Warrior’s bipolar Shadow. In the movie The Great Santini, Robert Duval plays a Marine fighter pilot who runs his family like a miniature Marine Corps. Most of his remarks and behavior toward his wife and children are depreciating, critical, commanding, and designed to put distance between him and the family members, who keep trying to relate to him lovingly. The destructiveness of this way of “relating” eventually becomes so obvious to everyone, especially to the older son, that there can no longer be any hiding from the fact that Santini’s sometimes violent behavior results from his own inability to be tender and genuinely intimate. The “Great Santini,” under the power of the Sadist, constantly has his emotional “sword” out, swinging at everyone—his daughters, who need to be treated like girls, not Marines; his oldest son, who needs his guidance and nurturing; and even his wife. There is a terrible scene in the kitchen when everything finally erupts; Santini physically attacks his wife, and then the kids attack him. Though detachment in itself is not necessarily bad, as we’ve said, it does leave the door open to the “demon” of cruelty. Because he is so vulnerable in this area of relatedness, the man under the influence of the Warrior needs urgently to have his mind and his feelings under control—not repressed, but under control. Otherwise, cruelty will sneak in the back door when he’s not looking.

There are two kinds of cruelty, cruelty without passion and cruelty with passion. An example of the first kind is a practice the Nazis used in training the SS officer corps. The candidates for the corps would raise puppies, caring for them in every way, tending them when they were sick, feeding and grooming them, playing with them. Then, at an arbitrary moment decided upon by the trainer, these men were ordered to kill their puppies, and to do so with no sign of feeling. This training in unfeeling sadism evidently worked well, because these same men became the killing machines that manned the death camps—systematically, and without emotion, torturing and murdering millions of human beings while still thinking of themselves as “good fellows.”

A contemporary image of the Warrior turned passionless killing machine is, of course, Darth Vader, from the Star Wars saga. It is alarming how many boys and adolescents identify with him. In this same connection, it is also alarming how many of these young men become members of survivalist and neo-Nazi groups.

Sometimes, though, the Sadist’s cruelty is passionate. In mythology, we hear of avenging gods, and of the “wrath of God.” In India, we see Shiva dancing the dance of universal destruction. In the Bible, Yahweh orders the fiery destruction of whole civilizations. Early in the Old Testament, we see this angry and vengeful God reducing the planet to mud through a great deluge, killing off nearly every living thing.

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