Robert Augustus Masters Q&A: Introduction

Robert Augustus Masters lives and works near Vancouver, British Columbia. He specializes in cutting-edge integral psychotherapy, counseling, spiritual deepening, and awakening work. Robert describes himself as increasingly finding freedom less through transcendence than through intimacy with all that is, a perspective which illuminates his deeply transformative workshops and therapy sessions. Some of his recent books include Darkness Shining Wild: An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell and Beyond: Meditations on Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality, & Liberation, Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening’s Heartland, Freedom Doesn’t Mind Its Chains: Revisioning Sex, Body, Emotion, & Spirituality, and The Anatomy & Evolution of Anger: An Integral Exploration.

For more information, please see his bio at Integral Naked where you can also listen to an informative and entertaining audio dialog (to listen to the dialog you simply need to join free for one month).

Robert's website includes essays, poetry, a free online newsletter and descriptions of his workshops, therapy and apprenticeship programs. Of particular interest is his essay on “An Integral Approach to Healing.”

In 2006 Robert agreed to participate in a Question & Answer thread on the Integral Naked forum - in a sense the forum collectively interviewed him. For a week or so, people submitted questions; I emailed them to Robert and then posted his answers on the thread. It proved quite popular and generated some fascinating, informative and entertaining responses. Following that initial intense week, we changed to a format where people posted questions, and each Friday I forwarded them to Robert and posted his subsequent responses. For convenience, in this blog I will place each Q&A session, numbered and dated, in a separate entry. The thread itself has some additional commentary and discussion by Integral Naked members.

Arthur