Events
Fury, overwhelming rage and anger
Category: Events
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Anger is one of the emotions, if you turn up the volume and intensity it escalates to become fury and rage. It is generated when there is a perceived threat. Note the word perceived. It is how we interpret it, it may not be a threat at all, but it is a reaction to a perceived provocation.
As it has been observed:
“While most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of ‘what has happened to them’, psychologists point out that an angry person can very well be mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability.”
We are taught in both western and eastern society to control anger, fury and rage because it generally leads to hurt. But anger is like a pressure cooker, if the pressure gets too great it will simply explode and you have fury, fury of an overwhelming nature.
Being an emotion which is associated with overload it can eventually cause illness. In the short term it increases the heart rate and blood pressure, and increases the adrenaline and noradrenaline levels. In effect we have stimulated the sympathetic nervous system in a ‘fight or flight’ response. If this is a permanent condition, however, as you can see it will put tremendous strain on our heart and other organs. For example……
Anger-related personality traits and carotid artery atherosclerosis in untreated hypertensive men
- Bleil ME, McCaffery JM, Muldoon MF, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Manuck SB Behavioral Physiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
An antagonistic disposition (Trait Anger), particularly a tendency to experience anger on minimal provocation (Angry Temperament) and a propensity to express anger outwardly (Anger-Out), are associated with heightened carotid atherosclerosis. These findings suggest that recently reported prospective associations between these anger dimensions and incident cerebrovascular disease may be mediated, in part, by increased atherosclerotic disease.
Animals are better at handling anger than we are. When they encounter a perceived threat – an aggressor – they make loud sounds [a dog growls for example or barks], attempt to make themselves look physically larger, bare their teeth, and stare. Which is why it is not a good idea to look at any animal directly – it interprets this as a sign of aggression. In animals this response usually works. In humans we don’t seem as well adapted to cope.
But uncontrollable fury can produce spiritual experiences, usually negative ones.
Background
In the section on the Types of Spiritual experience, you will see that one type is environmental influence - the person gains the ability to influence the functions of the universe. Thus they may be able to levitate [for example walk on water or hot coals] or move objects without touching them [psychokinesis] or affect the weather.
Psychokinesis or ‘PK’ is the equivalent to what was once called poltergeist activity. There is now enough evidence to show that 'poltergeists' do not exist, the movement or influence on objects is achieved by people and people who have achieved extraordinarily high levels of emotion – more particularly angst and anger.
Electrical equipment can be affected and its operation disrupted as well as ordinary objects affected such as cups or tables. Much 'poltergeist' activity has been traced to the emotional disturbances of young people, but some people just because of their hugely heightened emotional state have a PK ability. And normally these are ANGRY HURT people.
It is no accident that the Greeks chose the Furies to show the powers that high emotion can generate. Called the Erinyes ( literally "the avengers") from the Greek to pursue and persecute, these women were "infernal goddesses" . Their number is usually left indeterminate, but Virgil recognized three:
- Alecto – representing implacable unceasing anger
- Megaera – representing someone who bears a grudge
- Tisiphone – who represents revenge and "vengeful destruction"
In effect all the negative emotions associated with anger from jealousy to hate, anger, fury, malice and so on could be regarded as a ‘Fury’. And the attribution of the ‘goddess’ to them is a recognition that it can bestow great power on the person with this level of emotion, albeit a totally destructive and often uncontrollable power.
The power of the emotion of anger to generate effects is also recognised in the character of Morgan le Fay in the Arthurian legend. She is a ‘sorceress’ and a magician driven partly by the emotional jealousy and anger of Arthur himself. The early accounts of Geoffrey of Monmouth refer to Morgan in conjunction with the Isle of Apples (later Avalon) to which the fatally wounded Arthur was carried. To Geoffrey, she was an enchantress, but in the legends of Chrétien de Troyes she was also a healer. This matches well with all the accounts given of shamanic ability where those who use high emotion are capable of ‘evil’ acts and ‘good’ acts simultaneously.
How it works
You will need to be able to reference the Model of spiritual experience whilst you read the following. This has a definition of the terms I use. For a generic description of this activity in context see How spiritual experience works
Fury is an emotion of extreme intensity. Any form of reminder of the cause of this anger – a chance remark, a sudden jog to the memory which then produces memories, and the subconscious simply ramps up the intensity. If the cause of the anger is ever present, this turns into a cycle of ever increasing intensity.
Fury is a form of hurt, because the cause is a perceive threat – so the child in us is calling out for something to be done about this threat.
Many adults can manage to control this level of emotion and use learnt functions to gradually tone the intensity down – calm the subconscious. Thus an adult rarely ramps up the emotional level to the point where it has any effect.
But children, particularly some adolescents and adults of, shall we say, a less intellectual and adult disposition do nothing against the onslaught. Interestingly, a person like this is often regarded as being immature and a total embarrassment in modern cultures, because of the hurt often caused by this level of emotion. It can have a highly destructive effect. Those with reason tend to use it, but those with poor reasoning power or no learnt function just let the fury overwhelm them.
And the intensity of emotion blots everything else out – absolutely everything – reason, logic, desires and objectives, obligations and opportunities. Nothing is left except the vast sea of emotional PAIN PAIN PAIN because ultimately fury is about pain.
And the Will is overwhelmed. So it gives in and the Composer takes over.
But what it often provides is not at all nice. The potential for hurt is high and the Composer uses the occasion to launch in with some very effective ‘stick’ messages – there are no ‘carrots’ in the observations I have come across.
So it may well provoke an experience, but it is not one we would voluntarily want.
Observations
There are examples of psychokinesis here, but I have also included some examples where the anger became inspiration,where a poet was able to direct the fury he felt into poetry and a mystic was able to convert his anger at the injustice of wrongful imprisonment, into more positive results.
Related observations
Healing observations
- A placebo-controlled study of the effects of L-tryptophan in patients with premenstrual dysphoria 017326
- Atharvaveda - VI 42 Charm to appease anger 015844
- Cohen, Leonard - And healing hurt 005812
- Dance and movement therapy to help war and torture victims 012350
- Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride - Heart attack through 'evil fats'? 027893
- Effects of acute tryptophan depletion on prefrontal-amygdala connectivity while viewing facial signals of aggression 017321
- Effects of normal meals rich in carbohydrates or proteins on plasma tryptophan and tyrosine ratios 017319
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Healing - Paralysis cured by powerful emotions of fear and anger 026185
- Hypnotism cures madness 010119
- Loving-kindness meditation for chronic low back pain: results from a pilot trial 026358
- Minimizing aggression during mixing of gestating sows with supplementation of a tryptophan-enriched diet 017322
- Music Therapy - Catherine O’Leary and Martha with Psychological trauma and extreme unhappiness 021961
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing 'passions of the soul' and insomnia with music 014680
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing music 014687
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing with music 014679
- RobCast No.1 (My plant medicine journey with Ayahuasca and San Pedro) 017559
- The effect of raising and lowering tryptophan levels on human mood and social behaviour 017317
- The Lotus Sutra - 22 Wonderful sound - 2 Healing ills 023913
- The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa - The Epistle on Music 005920
- Treatment of anabolic steroid abuse 017455
Hallucination
- Buddhist temple example 000561
- Burroughs, Caisho - And there, going to make water, the Ghost of the Gentlewoman did appear to him 025676
- Burroughs, Caisho - The Ghost of the Courtisan did appear to him and prophesied he should be slain in a Duell, which accordingly happened 025677
- Dental amalgam fillings, anxiety, anger and depression 012331
- Evagrius Ponticus - A study into his asceticism 000570
- Hallucinations from high emotion and hypoglycemia 013003
- My Wealth of Knowledge - Drixoral Cough Liqui-Caps and Robitussin - by E. Gates 017472
- PCP intoxication in seven young children 017626
- PubMed - Aggression and heavy metals 006907
- Solitary confinement 001262
- Solitary confinement 001261 001261
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Berlioz - Harold en Italie 021207
- Bronwen from New Zealand falls from a cliff and translocates 013060
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Drooping Sunflower 000156
- Dante - Inferno [anger] 014652
- Fleetwood Mac - Tusk 021535
- Freddie Mercury - Death on two legs 022422
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Summary: Disease is caused by extreme emotions 026056
- Heine, Heinrich - And with love's slight subtle meshes 002628
- Heine, Heinrich - I called the devil and he came 002629
- Heine, Heinrich - In the wild whirl of the dancers 002632
- Heine, Heinrich - It is the fairy forest old 002631
- Heine, Heinrich - Oft he sat in the gloomiest corner at home 002607
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean 002633
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Once united in the high heavens 002630
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Stay thou below in thy ocean depths 002634
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - The sunbeams were playing 007261
- Heine, Heinrich - Who was it, please tell me, who was it who reckoned 002626
- Koestler, Arthur - Arrow in the Blue 021630
- Maier, Michael - The Secrets of Alchemy - The phoenix 015810
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - I am tired of planning and toiling 001470
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - The Day and Night are symbols of creation 001467
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - The faithful helm commands the keel 001468
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - There is blood on the face of the earth 001469
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - What man would be wise, let him drink of the river 001471
- Odetta - Blowin' in the Wind 022537
- Odetta - Masters of War 022530
- Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 022533
- Odetta - With God On Our Side 022538
- Orme Johnson, Professor David 000978
- Owen, Wilfred - Anthem for Doomed Youth 013111
- Owen, Wilfred - Disabled 013323
- Owen, Wilfred - Dulce et Decorum Est 013112
- Owen, Wilfred - The Parable of the Old Man and the Young 013114
- Owen, Wilfred - The Send Off 013113
- Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath 013325
- Sassoon, Siegfried - On Passing the New Menin Gate 013324
- Sibelius - Finlandia 012227
- Sri Aurobindo - 01 Savitri Book I Canto IV 006629
- The atheist who decided she couldn't stand anymore, slit her wrists and has a NDE 021170
- The Liam Jurrah Story 000577
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World 06 017858
Out of time
- Bronwen from New Zealand falls from a cliff and translocates 013060
- Erickson, Milton - Selective perception 001367
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Shipwreck! 004131
- Mark Mallman - Going out of body on stage 000576
- My Wealth of Knowledge - Drixoral Cough Liqui-Caps and Robitussin - by E. Gates 017472
- Prisoner in San Quentin 001260
- RobCast No.1 (My plant medicine journey with Ayahuasca and San Pedro) 017559
- Rolling Stones - Two thousand light years from home 003827
- Solitary confinement 001262
- Solitary confinement 001261 001261
- Sri Aurobindo - 09 Savitri Book XI Canto I 004143
- Swann, Ingo - Out of body during tonsillectomy 003213
- The atheist who decided she couldn't stand anymore, slit her wrists and has a NDE 021170
- The Liam Jurrah Story 000577
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Arlette the Opera singer with stage fright 022067
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Edith and the terrorist who blew himself up 022066
In time
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 46 Father Fijio 027772
- Bronwen from New Zealand falls from a cliff and translocates 013060
- Buddhist temple example 000561
- Burroughs, Caisho - The Ghost of the Courtisan did appear to him and prophesied he should be slain in a Duell, which accordingly happened 025677
- Cellini, Benvenuto – The vision obtained whilst he was imprisoned in the dungeon of Castel Angelo 028897
- Erickson, Milton - Selective perception 001367
- Evagrius Ponticus - A study into his asceticism 000570
- Heine, Heinrich - A dream of fearful mystery 002620
- Heine, Heinrich - The lotus flower doth languish 002622
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - A woman lives in the North 002623
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - By the sea, the dreary nocturnal sea 002627
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Myself am moved by the secret 002621
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay 002624
- Hypnotism cures madness 010119
- Leary, Timothy - High Priest - O'Donnell alone 017373
- My Wealth of Knowledge - Drixoral Cough Liqui-Caps and Robitussin - by E. Gates 017472
- RobCast No.1 (My plant medicine journey with Ayahuasca and San Pedro) 017559
- Solitary confinement 001262
- Solitary confinement 001261 001261
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Arlette the Opera singer with stage fright 022067
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Edith and the terrorist who blew himself up 022066
Prophecy
Dying
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Arlette the Opera singer with stage fright 022067
- Woolger, Dr Roger - Other Lives, Past selves – Edith and the terrorist who blew himself up 022066
Environmental Influence
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 46 Father Fijio 027772
- Bronwen from New Zealand falls from a cliff and translocates 013060
- Dr. Jean Wier - 1551, near Waldstadt, Germany - Woman taken up by the devil and dropped from the sky 028908
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Apoplexy [stroke or haemorrhage] induced by powerful emotions – Fear, pain, or anger 026131
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Epilepsy induced by powerful emotions – anger and shock 026075
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Gout induced by powerful emotions – Fear, fury and stress 026160
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Heart failure induced by powerful emotions – fury and anger 026111
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Jaundice induced by powerful emotions – Anger, Fear, Anxiety and Shame 026139
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Lactation failure and lactation disorders induced by powerful emotions –Trauma, Shock, Rage and Fear 026155
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Stroke and loss of speech induced by powerful emotions - fury 026093
- Keightley, Thomas - Follets 000563
- Mikhailova, Nelya - Psychokinesis 000562
- Mikhailova, Nelya - The family dog, watched with bewilderment as objects near Nelya began to gyrate 023343
- Psychokinesis 000567
- Psychokinesis 000566
- Psychokinesis 000564
- Psychokinesis [PubMed] 000571
- Psychokinesis [PubMed] 000569
- Shah, Idries - The Sufis - On Psychokinesis 000568
- The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa - The Epistle on Music 005920
Other observations
- Aggression and anger-related traits associated with a polymorphism of the tryptophan hydroxylase gene 017323
- Burroughs, Caisho - And there, going to make water, the Ghost of the Gentlewoman did appear to him 025676
- Burroughs, Caisho - The Ghost of the Courtisan did appear to him and prophesied he should be slain in a Duell, which accordingly happened 025677
- Effects of tryptophan depletion on reactive aggression and aggressive decision-making in young people with ADHD 017325
- Influence of rapid tryptophan depletion on laboratory-provoked aggression in children with ADHD 017324
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Wrath 022836
- Vibroacoustic disease 027784
- Vibroacoustic disease: some forensic aspects 027785