Thoughts about power and being a shaman

Harry Hay, one, of the first to name the development of faerie culture explained the power of the shaman was "to transform" and was based on a subject-object understandings of the dynamic of power. He elaborated "how third gender men, being non-judgmental by nature, do not seek power because it is subject-object in character. We, [Gay men], mediate subject-subject consciousness instead."

I am, bold enough to assert the idea that the gay identity is now undergoing a transition. I am not non-judgmental, but I wrestle with this process of my thinking of others. I try to come from a place of compassion and maybe this is enough to illustrate how we as gay men operate if we manage to free our thinking from the hetero-tendency for aggressive competition? I realize these statements are generalities, but I believe we are different from hetero-men and hetero-women. We do have to do an awful lot more personal work than our fellow humans because from the time we are children we have to defend our "difference." If we become judgemental, competitive, and / or aggressive is it because we have learned to be
"psyco-socially hetero?



I think, perhaps, I should claim to be a "third gender" man and claim the place in the tribe as a "mediator?" Then I could claim the source of my passion as being my identity and my place in the tribe. In that context, whatever power I have "to mediate, or to observe the world comes from who I am and the co-consciousness of being in community of men. As a "third gender man," I claim my place in the gay community as a 'Mediator." I am a man, who cares and feel a great deal of passion in being alive now, to witness what may be a "spiritualization" of the gay community. A spiritualization whic is not based on fitting into the terms of hetero-society, but creating the vision of "difference" that offers service to the entire human race!



What a big vision! But then, there are more third gender men waking up all the time!