14/04/2026
WHY YOUR RAGE IS VERY SPIRITUAL
Here is a gentle reminder for the seekers of “love and light and bliss”.
(And there’s no judgement here. We seek the light until we fall in love with the darkness, and the darkness gets infused with our light and is no longer darkness at all…)
Rage is misunderstood.
Rage is spiritual.
Rage is not dangerous.
DISOWNED rage is what is dangerous.
Shadow-rage, disowned rage, rage that is repressed and unintegrated, rage that is acted out, violently, unconsciously, cruelly, on self or other, is what’s dangerous.
Rage, before it’s acted out, or acted in, is simply information. Burning information, yes. Intense information, yes. But bodily information all the same.
Information. Energy. Life. Raw, pulsating, burning, throbbing, LIFE.
In the body. The scream of the inner child.
When pure rage is met, integrated, processed, digested, understood, loved for what it is, it is utterly harmless. It’s life-giving, even. Energising. Fuel for creativity. Passion. Manifestation.
Rage carries information about what we care about. About our values. About where we need to speak up, or make changes, or set boundaries, or stay safe, or call out injustice.
About things in the past we need to face, or speak up about, or process.
Rage is a wild life force, and it’s safe to feel and face.
Underneath our rage may be a terrible grief.
An authentic, healthy, life-giving anger, or fuel to make positive change.
Or perhaps a little child, raging for attention, for love, for Presence, for a parent, at last.
When we don’t understand rage, we attack and blame others, or ourselves.
Or we get sick, or get addicted, or just keep running until our legs are sore.
But when we can be present with rage, we see its innocence.
And it can break open into a powerful love.
And it can bring the most incredible transformations.
And the most profound healings.
So, to the “love and light and bliss” seekers, I implore you, don’t be afraid of what you call ‘darkness’, don’t turn away from these beautiful shadow-messengers, don’t repress your deepest humanity in your search for the light.
You’ll be cutting off important parts of your own heart.
You’ll be raging underneath your peaceful exterior, and that’s no good for anyone, including you.
You’ll be controlling and abusive and blame others, even though you call yourself “awakened”, and that cannot be the way, that has never been the way to peace.
Rage will be your most incredible teacher.
Rage will really wake you up.
Rage will heal you more than bliss ever could.
If you can drop your mask,
and start
listening.
- Jeff Foster
