SENSITIVITY AND EVOLUTION
Intelligence develops over the ages. The way we think today is not the way the Egyptians thought, nor is it the way that people as recently as the Middle Ages thought. In the farthest ancient times the experience of “me”, “mine”, “privacy”, “ego”, even “life” and “death” were wholly different. Things were not “thought out” mechanically. Mind responded to higher laws and finer perception. Sensitivity was not crushed under the pressure of intellect as it is today.
In this kind of society the sacred was a state of being rather than a belief. Cathedrals were built on a very deliberate geometric and architectural plan to take a person who walked into its pattern through a process where his own body frequency would accelerate, starting at the physical range and extending into the frequencies of the universe. This was tangibly experienced through body and mind. There were even separate entrances for the street person, for the pilgrim and for the initiate. Each knew his or her place and there was no argument about it. It was a matter of sensitivity and inner development.
In the name of progress we have lost sensitivity for the sacred. Intellectual development has led to expediency and a growing hunger for personal power. We do not take into consideration that the world is not just what we see, it is also what we feel, and that the human being is not just what he seems, he is the unseen Consciousness within. Intelligence is no longer the multi-facetted diamond that unfolds from unified experience; it is the strict domain of the rational, linear mind.
Thinking rules and feeling is oppressed. The conflict and deep misunderstanding between the genders has its root in these two activities. It is not men versus women. It is the simple truth that intellect opposes feeling and crushes it. THIS is what we need to remember and correct.
A woman’s body is, at it always was, a temple housing a delicate system of perception and emanation. She was originally held in the same light as spirituality, its sanctity preserved. It was common knowledge that she, in turn nourished society.
Not only priestesses but many women wore a veil over their head to protect them from absorbing negativity from the surroundings. Woman also concentrated her attention on the home rather than the-world-at-large for the same reason: it was her job to preserve the purity of the original inner sanctum. She carefully removed herself from society during menstruation and pregnancy, the most vulnerable periods of her life energetically, to protect her as she guarded the temple from demons and other negative thought-forms. There never was any stigma attached to these measures.
Now, when we think we know better, the tendency is to believe that the equality of opportunity we advocate extends to the way our energies behave. We’ve convinced ourselves that everything can be resolved through the workings of the thinking-mind. So we dismiss many of the ancient practices as being antiquated and superstitious nonsense. These observances are definitely inconvenient in a competitive society, and perhaps not necessary. The pity is that women themselves forgot how to feel and know, and be. While we have progressed technologically and analytically, we have regressed inasmuch as the inner world is concerned. It’s called professionalism.
The female body touches other bodies with an inbuilt awareness of life touching life. In a natural state of being we relish in the texture of things. Ours is the personal touch, but instead of following our nature we become distant, impersonal, neurotic. Our sensibilities, both emotional and mental are as subtle and irrational as that of the physical body. But our opinions and perceptions, if not based on scientific analysis are deemed ridiculous, a product of an active imagination, or of frustrated cravings. Adding insult to injury, we truly come to believe that the solution to our ills lies in satisfying a libido that is not our own. It is not the male sexual response that we need; it is the understanding of the sacredness of life that we represent.
The nature of woman has not changed; the times have. She is the guardian of the sensitivity of the race. The race will be as spiritually evolved as is woman’s awareness of her sensitivity.
Women are not built like men. They cannot parade their nudity and engage in a competitive, retaliatory mentality without reaping the consequences. I am in no way advocating a return to the old ways in a world that is totally different. I am simply stating a fact and calling for intelligent, sensitive solutions.
Women yearn to be honoured as we crave to honour ourselves, in the spirit of the guardianship of sentience in a sacred and perfect form. Our struggle is with insensitivity at every level, not women and men against one another but together side by side.
(photograph: Barry Sheinkopf)
Man & Woman.
The idea that a state of mind can influence our world, the way we shape our day to day life, can only be conceived by a woman’s. Not because of a “sex” privilege but because the way woman can use her emotional body to access and expand the mind to absorb all the nuances of the mind itself. Balance between the chaos of a woman’s way of thinking, and the order of a man’s way of thinking is key to the integration between man and woman.
The problem I see is the guilt that lies on both of our shoulders about all the nasty things that were done over the years by men against woman, and the manipulative way women have responded to this aggression. In other words, this imbalance has created a bad situation for all women and men.
Guilt arose in men themselves as a consequence of their physical abuse, power and oppression of women over centuries. In women, this generated a power struggle as they in turn sought revenge and domination over men, through applying their own kind of power, emotional manipulation. This led to a powerful dance over the years, where each is trying to prove to the other who is stronger or most capable of winning. The fight has deviated our attention from the truth of our inner journey and our inner connection with one another.
The fact is that every time someone does something that causes pain or injury to the other, the injured party must retaliate with a similar blow and difficulty, in order to maintain balance. Women must realize that they have inflicted a similar pain on men by manipulating their emotional bodies and depriving them of their ability to grow and reach their full spiritual potential.
If we look around now, we will see that men look and behave more and more like women. They developed a sense of “passivity” in almost everything. The way they dress and conduct business for example. Women have driven men to lose their place in society, and have taken over.
Today we see women in powerful positions, like the presidency of a country and a corporation, and that is wonderful, but it appears imbalanced to me. Now women are abusing their power and creating yet another imbalance, provoking men to seek revenge by imposing a new standard for women’s beauty, for example. Men demand that women look a certain way, and women are lost in this “new image”. This forces women to be super skinny, super mothers, super partners and super professionals. What to do now?? When does the cycle of guilt and revenge end, if we keep fighting without ever reaching a deeper understanding of our place in the world?
The balance of giving and taking is the key to reach humility. When men and women come to accept that the real fact is that we are not in any way more powerful than the other, but equally powerful in our own way, that in our differences lies our strength, and that it is time to put an end to this ancient battle once and for all, then forgiveness will come to both men and women. When these two forces are in harmony and working as a whole, love will be able to grow again in our hearts.
This way the real sacred marriage will be able to occur, and the connection between our physical and emotional bodies will empower our minds to fully understand God and his creation, and our participation on the process of human evolution
We must work together now to discover how to empower one another in our own way, so we can, together, reach the peak of our evolution as the spiritual completion of our existence.
Morena
May 11, 2011
I totaly resonate with the last three paragraphs. The keys are giving and taking, forgiveness of ourselves and each other and empowerment of each other and the whole. This can make for harmony and perfect balance of the male and the female that exists within us all. I have found that understanding that I have been male and female in many lifetimes has helped me in this SueX
Reading a book by J.Campbell: Primitive Mythology/The Masks of God, came across this interesting text, I want to share:
“”How can a man know what a woman’s life is?” said an Abyssinian woman:
A woman’s life is quiet different from a man’s. God has ordered it so. A man is the same from the time of his circumcision to the time of his withering. He is the same before he has sought out a woman for the first time, and afterwards. But the day when a woman enjoys her first love cuts her in two. She becomes another woman on that day. The man is the same after his first love as he was before. The woman is from the day of her first love another. That continues so all through life. The man spends a night by a woman ad goes away. His life and body are always the same. The woman conceives. As a mother she is another person than the woman without child. She carries the print of the night nine months long in her body. Something grows. Something grows into her life that never again departs from it. She is a mother. She is and remains a mother even though her child die, though all her children die. For at one time she carried the child under her heart. And it does not go out of her heart ever again. Not even when it is dead. And this the man does not know;he knows nothing. He does not know the difference before love and after love, before motherhood and after motherhood. He can know nothing. Only a woman can know that and speak of that. That is why we won’t be told what to do by our husbands. A woman can only do one thing. She can respect herself. She can keep herself decent. She must always be as her nature is. She must always be maiden and always be mother. Before every love she is a maiden, after every love she is a mother. In this you can see whether she is a good woman or not.”
Men Can be as sensitive and emotional as women. We have the ability, and right, to live in our hearts too. I agree that maybe it is rarer for a man than a woman to live in his heart, but it is possible, and should’nt be overlooked. Personally, I see myself as emotional and heart centred as any woman, in fact more emotional and heart ruled than many wowen I know. Yet I still have the traditional male qualities of running a succesful business, be it in the traditional woman’s domain of child care. My open heart and sensitivity makes me an equal child carer, my wealth of experience in child care and autism makes me better at helping Children with special needs than those with less experience, regardless of gender. Experience aside, being open hearted and sensitive makes us more effective carers. I have been a succesful single father since my daughter was born, the only thing I was’nt able to match a female on was the breast feeding.
I am also, however, totally in touch with my male side as well. I go drinking with my Male builder friends, fix and drive fast cars, flex my muscles when needed to protect my loved ones, and burp and fart in the way men do !! Please dont discount a male’s ability to be succesfull in a traditional woman’s role, or vice versa.
Meant with pure love.. James. x
Thank you so much, James! If you notice there is a sentence in my last post that refers to men having to”harden” and not manifest the emotional side that is characteristic in the male structure. The article, however, is about women and the fact that they need to be acknowledged not just symbolically or for the things that our bodies do (babies, breastfeeding…) but for the way our minds and emotions “work”. I have not said that men are not emotional nor could I ever say that. Please have a look at the previous posts and ask (or comment) all that you wish. I welcome the opportunity to dialogue. Please keep in mind, however, that my point has to do with polarity — the way in which our energy, in spite of our intention or efficiency, acts upon the world. More later, I hope. Hope to keep connecting… xxx Zzz