Letter from Lhasa, number 263. Politics of Massage
by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Capellini, S., and M. Van Welden, Massage for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2010.
Steve Capellini,
Michel Van Welden
(Capellini 2010)
Stubbs, K. R., and L.-A. Saulnier, Erotic Massage. The Tantric Touch of Love, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY, USA, 1998.
Kenneth Ray Stubbs,
Louise-Andrée Saulnier
(Stubbs 1998)
Humans, as well as other animals, need to touch each other and their skin needs to “breathe”, so to be in communication with external air not only with other humans.
Orphans not touched from anybody die. In times of crises, as the Middles Ages, people did not touch too much and massaging was not at all popular.
“Many people just can’t seem to understand that massage is anything more than indulgence, luxury, and pampering, so they pass on it.” (Capellini 2010, p. 51). Consequently, it may be subversive, relatively to other ‘languages’, or it may simply reveal as a form of manipulation.
Politics of massage is politics of health and pleasure, because massage is a healthy and pleasant activity, decidedly with a marked spirituality:
“In massage, you have to go beyond the moves pretty quickly. You need to develop a ‘moveless movement,’ or flow, in which you’re concentrating not on your own technique but on your partner’s feelings, sensations, and reactions, just like a musician who forgets all about notes and scales, sharps and flats, and even the instrument itself. Your movements are the technique, the body you massage is the instrument, and it’s the interaction between the two that makes the music. In other words, massage — not the movements required to produce the sensations — is the music, the communication, the thing that you create.” (Capellini 2010, p. 135-36)
For a good sensual massage, what one needs are just the right intention, spontaneity and sensitivity. (Capellini 2010, p. 264). It has the advantage of involving the whole bodies.
If, instead of planning and implementing insanities and crimes, Statesmen/women and other policy-makers practiced massage, they would make the world better instead of worse as they currently do. Organizing and implementing terrorism and organized criminality, Statesmen/women and other policy-makers break communication channels among people and inside subjects, instead of promoting wealthy and synergetic flows of energy.
Capellini, S., and M. Van Welden, Massage for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2010.
Stubbs, K. R., and L.-A. Saulnier, Erotic Massage. The Tantric Touch of Love, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY, USA, 1998.
