(05-13-2012, 12:09 PM)smash Wrote: [ -> ]One more question to Master Shannon, as I am planning my subliminal future ;-)... I will use SM afterwards and got one question: is SM 2.0 compatible to Natural Grounding?
From what I know of Natural Grounding, it differs significantly from SM. SM is designed primarily as a means of extending and focusing the effects of AM, and doing so in a specifically sexual direction, including both projective and receptive experiences. The goal, quite simply, is to get you laid. That is how it was designed by the guys here. For this one, I simply built the requested design.
Natural grounding, as I understand it, is attempting to balance a man within himself by helping him access is feminine side. The result seems to help with achieving sex, from what I understand.
The theory, however, I disagree with on one big point, at least for men coming from the United States: in the US, we have now got a society that is dominated by feminists, and they have been dominant for two, maybe three generations. The result is that we have a lot of males who don't know how to be men, are afraid to be men, and who are not being men, they are being either beta males (neuters in a male body) or beta boys (immature males in a male body).
Women find themselves frustrated on this point, because now they are not finding any "real men" to date, have sex with, marry, settle down with, and guess what? They don't want what they have turned the male half into. They don't want guys who ask permission to do everything because they're afraid they might upset someone, they want guys who do what they want to do, and live their own lives without being needy or codependant.
I'm not saying NG causes this, but if you take a guy who has been emasculated and "natural ground him", what are you going to get? A guy who is still beta, but more feminine still. And that's the last thing women want.
I'm all for a man in balance with his feminine side. But it has to be in balance. His masculine side must be dominant to at least some degree, and he must understand how to be a "real man" or he is sunk. Thus, AM. SM simply takes that training to it's natural conclusion in the direction of sexuality and it's expression.
NG is quite different, it would seem. There are, however, a lot of guys here who have a better knowledge of NG than I do.
EDIT: Ha, I misread that! I thought you wrote "comparable"! Compatible, only if you have a strong enough masculine balance. NG will probably pull you away from a lot of what AM/SM aims to accomplish in terms of achieving/expressing masculinity. I wouldn't use them together, but maybe someone who has would like to speak up?