WILD ATTRACTION WILD ATTRACTION - Earthstar

But deep down, almost everyone both yearns to hear thatcall and fears it in the cells of the body. Those who wantto face the prospect of this summons with intelligenceand compassion—to own and celebrate their essentialwildness but somehow make it work as it might actuallyhave been designed to work—are my intended audience.This force I am portraying can throw you together withan incompatible mate while perpetuating the illusion offree choice. With equal ease, it can isolate you over thecourse of an entire lifetime. Although this animate forcehas hopes for you, it often seems to have no mercy. Andas long as it is unacknowledged, it is no more reliablethan Puck in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dreamand no less manically zany than the Marx Brothers.Wild Attraction is in some respects an account of thesighting of a rare animal previously unknown to humanscience, not unlike the first reports of the discovery ofgorillas in dense green rain forests scarcely a centuryago. People scoffed at the idea of man-sized apes in aworld that, even at that relatively quaint time, seemed tohave been thoroughly explored. The assertion that aWild Attraction creature exists is more revolutionary;nobody will be bringing back a body part to back up thisclaim, as someone eventually did to resolve the gorillacontroversy.For most people back then, the existence of gorillas wasa purely theoretical question, since few of these largeherbivores were foraging in people’s bedrooms andbackyards. But the question of Wild Attraction is ofimmediate and practical concern. This creature speaksand acts through us and has the power to inspire withinus the obsessive and compulsive reactions that we experienceas romantic love and attraction. In describingWild Attraction in this way, I have no wish to marginalizethe roles that our biology and psychology play butrather want to radically expand the sense of what sexualityis. The Wild Attraction model meets this needequally well whether adopted as a metaphor or acceptedliterally as the description of an actual sentience roamingsomewhere in an expanded coexistent universe.Whichever way you may choose to frame it to yourself,this thing I am calling Wild Attraction makes a fabulous,potent ally on a road leading to powerful intimacy withthe mystery from which we all spring. If you learn tounderstand it and collaborate with it, Wild Attractionwill awaken you, carry you to places you cannot imaginein advance of your arrival, and give you the means tosafeguard your love and your mate, to the degreeallowed by fate, throughout your life. Wild Attractioncan never be domesticated, but it wants to be harnessed.And, suggestively, it wants to harness you.You may be amazed at the rich and complex nature ofthis remarkable animal, and also find yourself a bitaghast at how little its nature is understood in our culture.People ignore Wild Attraction at their peril, as most ofthe human race rediscovers and immediately forgets,every day. But this living amalgam of the male andfemale gender essences is probably our most powerfulfriend in the struggle to create ever greater, more capablehuman beings.Paul and Patricia Richards are pioneers in the rapidly developingfield of Energetic Seeing. They are highly sought afterconsultants and trainers in energetic perception (Seeing) andits practical application in human health, personal empowerment,and relationship. After successful careers in aerospaceand medicine they founded the Senté Center for EnergeticStudies (est. 1992), a private, innovative training facility thatpromotes the understanding of the human energy system andthe role of “non-ordinary” Energy in everyday life. Manybusiness professionals, couples and individuals worldwidehave trained with the Richards. Paul and Patricia Richardsreside in Ashland, OR, and Tauranga, New Zealand. For moreinformation please visit www.sentecenter.comFor my part, I see it as the latter.62 EARTH STAR OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2009www.earthstarmag.com