ONLY A WOMAN
23 April 2011
Women. Have you thought about how you get things done? Have you reflected on your power of attraction? Are you aware that it has little to do with appearances?
How do you “feel”? Do you know those “feelings” that don’t have a label? Have you observed the effects your feelings have on others?
Just how do you “intuit” something? How do you “know” that you know? Are you aware of how deeply you influence your world, your children, and your men? Do you know how this happens energetically?
Pause to recreate in your memory the dynamic you follow every time. It is not something you plan. It happens. Thought and strategy come later. Rather than what you do as an activity, or calculate with your mind notice how you modulate yourself energetically in different situations. Observe yourself feeling, and observe others feeling you, without the usual filters of your preferences.
Consider: what you do to entice, or seduce in a number of ways / how you attract conditions and situations (positive/ negative) / what you do to get attention… or to go unnoticed / what happens around you when you are angry…or sad / how easily you can fake anything / how you eventually get what you want
You do, indeed, know what is really happening behind the scenes, when you want to
It doesn’t take genius to know these things when you are a woman. Our immediate response might be, “uhh, I don’t know”, but oh, you do! The key lies in your intuitive management of energy. Nobody teaches you that. Only a woman can read another woman, but there is no manual that can explain how this is done.
Men say that we manipulate. We do. Neutrally seen, it is an essential and necessary function that women perform. We need to understand why this is so. Manipulation reveals the very special way that women impress, and in the best of times bless creation. This is because we cause things to happen. This has always been so. We can’t help it: it is our nature.
Women spontaneously exert a force over our surroundings that is of an entirely different kind than men’s. We receive and simultaneously transmit life-waves as part of Greater Nature. Our bodies are built like are a hollow, resonant board that serves to amplify frequency in order to energize and colour the world.
It is often neither comfortable nor convenient for us to acknowledge the enormous effect we have upon our surroundings. Our every thought and feeling sends out waves of tremendous force as a consequence of the gestating, mothering dynamic we are endowed with. Caring for a child translates into caring for and embracing everything. In the ordinary world it means that women are the mistresses of space, like the heavens themselves, or like the earth that offers the womb for all life to become something greater. But being so brings the shadow effect of not knowing who or what we are without something reflecting us back to ourselves. So much of our collective reality is based on what the naked eye can see or what the mind can analyse, that we don’t know how to decipher the language of the Feminine Principle. Centuries of silencing the Priestess –who held the keys to this art– brought us to these sad conditions.
If we as women understand the dynamic that rules us we will be able to neutralize or create constructive atmospheres consciously. Women could begin to seriously train in conscious management of feelings, and deliberately hold the spaces around us – in our relationships, in our homes and workspace, in our government and natural habitats – in the highest light.
You might ask, “Of what use are the ways of the priestess in our practical and personal worlds”? We can preserve and enhance life beginning with our own circle. We may influence minds by generating a positive spirit behind common thinking. We are capable of changing the course of events.
When our feeling force is harnessed, and backed by the right thought-forms and a special resonance, there is nothing we are not capable of effecting.
We cannot be held accountable for the brutalities against our gender prevailing today, but neither can we hold the men fully accountable at this point in our development. This is precisely the moment to release whatever traces of resentment we as women might still have. We do our part by becoming aware enough to curtail the personalistic quality of our manipulation, exploitation and exacerbation of the male libido. We do what we do best: generate and hold the force and quality of feeling within and around all creation. Men do what they do best: honour us and all life, use reason as a guide to the management of the world, and establish a fair order.
We can cause things to happen the way we choose consciously, because we are the custodians of a source that bestows energy and quality upon the world. If one woman is enough to charge the atmosphere of a room with her grace, with her anger, with her fear or with her ambitions, imagine what a group of awakened women focussed on clear positive intent can bring about? Exactly as ancient priestesses did. We can influence world events.
I believe I speak for most women when I say that we don’t want a world run by women either. We love men; we need them to shape things. We need one another to see and experience our difference and assume the dignity this bestows on each of us. This cannot happen without the recognition that women are the gestators of humanity’s energy.
As women we claim our right to change what is happening in the world. We call for the balance of power between the genders, not in fictitious equality but in respectful difference. For this I address the priestess inside every woman. The Temple of the world calls us back.
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ABOUT SILENCE & BEYOND IT – 18 April 2011
Just recently a friend asked me my opinion about Ekhart Tolle’s work. She was finding it difficult to achieve the aims it sets, however simple these may be. But there is nothing simple about us women. It made me realize that most spiritual leaders are men who teach silence and stillness. Wonderful, but… their ways often bring up feelings of invalidation and incapacity for women who are at odds to admit it without dishonoring themselves.
So, at the risk of being “stoned”… :
Ekhart Tolle’s message is universal but it does not take gender differences into account. It speaks to us directly of silence and the spaciousness of awareness beyond the chattering mind. In this path emotions are a disturbance. It reminds us of the best of Vedanta and Buddhism, modernized. But both of these traditions are male-oriented. We can follow them, of course, but to do so we, as women, pay a price — human sensitivity, emotional breadth, the sense of fulfillment…
Before we reach the level of true silence, men and women follow different paths that respond to our individual structures. Usually we do this naturally in the world. It is not so easy for woman to demand silence of herself and divorce this from the emotional flow we literally swim in. And I do not feel we ought to! We are emotionally polarized, men are mentally polarized. To choose one above the other is to judge the other as inferior.
It is time to listen and feel the Mother’s breath and follow the rivering course of the eternal Tao. Rather than being rules and methods, it is awareness WITHIN life, not through “doing” but through “experiencing” naturally. Humanity. I feel this is what the world needs now. To transcend our own humanity without embracing it is against everything the Mother (and Humanity) stands for.
We need to follow the path of life affirmation. The Feminine Principle speaks of attunement — falling in tune with life as the embracing, containing, gestating activity of perpetual motion. We fall into silence being ourselves. Once we have the knack of this, then we can share in a world of Oneness beyond gender. There Ekhart Tolle and the ways of the Mother-God are One.
Many might disagree with me, but I hope you can stand up there with me in the defense of harmony, beauty and the ebb and flow of life in the body and in the richness of emotional life. It is painful being a woman, but it is infinitely glorious to be at the Source of Life.
xxx Zzz
…even so, each human being has his/her own approach to Divinity and Life, therefore all the attempts to unify that which is the Soul will not bear fruit, as the seed planted in each human being’ Heart is unique and unattainable by human attempts of understanding. That is why every path leads you to Silence, being Silence not the absence of thought, action, or word ,but rather the rest in the movement of Being Yourself.
Love & Blessings
(Hello…)
First of all… What is Silence? Is it the numbness and anesthesia that some wish to have through meditation and stillness? If so, I think it’s neither men’s or women’s path.
The first step should be to acnowledge what you are and who you are, as a man or as a woman, with the particularities of each gender but also -as Graciette says- of each soul. If we are all meant to be exactly the same, why was difference created, at first? Shouldn’t we respect and honour the difference, the uniqueness, instead of trying to disregard it? It’s not being uniform that we are going to reach union. And that includes the gender.
Returning to the Silence, the times I’ve felt it, it was not like a calmed down state without sound nor feeling.
I felt it like a vibrating space full of light with the surrounding sound of the energy, like an emptiness full of richness. (At this point, I do declare I’m a woman and, as such, my daily life is full of contradictions, and this meant-to-be definition of Silence is not an exception)
Back to your entry, I like Echart Tolle; but as everything, his books sould be used with discernment rather than swallow them whole. How and when do they apply to you, or are a way for you?
How could I affirm that my “Being Myself” is like your “Being Yourself”? How could I say, then, that my way is your way?
What I can say is that, for me, the way is shown, felt and lead by the heart. And, taking all the unique ways of expression of each soul, I think that’s the women’s way.