Session 2 - two impossible ideas
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TL;DR (Summary)
The underlying cause of woke, cancel culture, and the need for mavericks and matrons.
Imagine that you are the most creative, the most talented, the strongest, the bravest, or the most compassionate person among those you know, or know of.
Perhaps you’ve gained a medal at a recent Olympic Games, after years, or decades of training and discipline. Your successes, your resolve, your discipline in the face of adversity, have instilled in you a can-do attitude that empowers you, enabling you to push through difficulties, come what may.
What does 'holodynamic system' mean?
TL;DR
Women struggling with need to please (SMH)
---- on the pursuit of happiness
Psychology Today blog article by Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D. (JUne 2009)
Category:
Leading God: Raw Individuality
At a dinner party recently I explained that "genuine creativity leads God", in that everyone else (including God1) is genuinely, gob-smackingly surprised by our raw originality.
One woman was deeply shocked and horrified by the idea. She said she completely "shut down" with regards to anything else I had to say. Golly.
The feminine urge to tribalise
A while back I posted some ideas concerning the habit of categorising people into various groups — tribes, astrological signs, enneagram and other groupings.
Men are particles, women are waves
Update (August, 2016) - see latest regarding the dynamics of gender
When writing Be and Become during the latter half of the 90's, the various revisions of the manuscript1 included chapter (Nine) titled as "Men are particles, women are waves".
What's missing from The Law of Attraction?
In recent years there's been much talk of the Law of Attraction, popularised in the film "The Secret".
As with many systems of belief, there is a great deal that is helpful and uplifting about the "Law of Attraction". We can and do attract favourable (or unfavourable) 'things' into our lives, based on our beliefs.
But the attractive principle is a deeply feminine energy - it's reliant on the receptive (on receiving); of being open and inviting.
The immense importance of understanding 'masculine' and 'feminine'
By coincidence I've only recently (namely, this morning) come across a 1991 paper by Prof. Robert Jahn of Princeton's famous1 PEAR laboratory.
Jahn's paper is quite extraordinary, at least for me, for it covers many of the basic concepts that I wrote about in my book Be and Become.2
One of the central points of Jahn's paper is that not understanding the complementarity of 'masculine' and 'feminine' fuels "immensely destructive" behaviours and results, both personally and socially. From Jahn's paper:
When posed in polar opposition, whether within a single personality, or in the context of the ubiquitous interactions between the male and the female sexes, the failures of this interface are legion, legendary, and immensely destructive, both personally and socially. Yet, when deployed in constructive complementarity, the masculine/feminine integration within the individual can enable the highest creativity and personal satisfaction, and in the male/female partnership can generate some of the highest accomplishments, profoundest insights, and most beautiful resonances of human existence. In this form, it is probably the species' most powerful resource for spiritual as well as physical survival and evolution.
Why I concur with Jahn is that the deeper nature of what 'feminine' and 'masculine' actually mean is not widely understood or appreciated.
- 1. or infamous, according to skeptics and assorted naysayers. See my article on sceptics and their brethren
- 2. I used to think that I had intuited new, highly original insights into the deep frameworks of life, but Jahn has demonstrated he largely got there first! I suppose my contribution is the comprehensiveness of my work, going well beyond that of Jahn's paper. Still, I freely give recognition when it is appropriate and deserved.
