Only when every child can experience the mother within his or her father;
Only when every child can experience the father within his or her mother;
Only then will every male and every female be whole and free;
And our world will have changed!
Perhaps one day more people will realize how much truth was revealed about our past, present, and possible future in the Handbook On Being Human. The Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia said that we shape our reality through our thoughts, feelings, and actions. They predicted that the past history and present characteristics of human choices would feed the Oku Enia (the Corpse) and we would continue to see an increasing deterioration of our fragile civilizations and societies. Think about it! The Oku Enia is making its way into every area of our lives – all of our institutions and places of work, education, prayer, and play have fallen victim to the numbing stench of the Oku Enia. National Security, Religion, Public Safety, Education, Sports, Banking, Investing, and government have all manifested the foul smell and grotesque characteristics of the Corpse – stealing, lying, using, abusing, deceiving, tricking, robbing, devouring the minds, hearts, wills, and souls of millions of people. Now, in the wake of the mass and senseless shooting at Century 16 theaters at the Aurora Mall in Colorado, what was once relegated to the television and movie theatre screens has now passed through the veil that separates the world and become a part of your and my reality. The irony and dilemma of our situation is that we are creating this nightmare ourselves.
You have not only heard it, you have in all likelihood lived it – It’s a man’s world! That is the truth of the present and the source of our nightmare of violence creeping and seeping across the planet. The combat attire reportedly worn by the accused shooter provides us with a teaching moment about the significance of an imbalance between the Masculine and Feminine Principles of Mind. Be a big wheel! Be a sturdy oak! No sissy stuff! Give them hell, son! Decked out in full body armor and armed with both versatility, power, and a finely tuned plan, 24-year-old James Holmes was the perfect picture – the poster child – for the predominant Masculine Male Stereotype, impervious to the emotional world around him and switched off from the Feminine Principle calling to him from within – Feel! Feel! Feel the reservoir of empathy, love, and compassion that surrounds you! But the Feminine aspect of his Ori (inner head, spiritual head) could not reach him. Humans are very strong mentally and emotionally, but we can also break. James Holmes is a broken person like many others. He has his own history of experiences that brought him to his horrific actions. Maybe he was broken by the weight of it being A Man’s World. Be objective! Be unemotional! Be willful – Be your own man! Be conscious of what is important to you! And don’t forget son, - No sissy stuff! Oh, and absolutely no crying – Be A Man, son!
If being a man means buying into the present Masculine Male Stereotype, and if that stereotype is as described above – and it is – then we will continue to see an increased in the number and scale of the atrocities being visited by the Oku Enia as it feeds on your and my negative thoughts, feelings, and actions – our choices! The Masculine Principle of Mind is incapable of functioning properly without its complementary and supplementary Feminine Principle of Mind. The present Masculine Male Stereotype breeds a feeling of not measuring up in many, an anxious desperation and fear in others, and an unjustified but fully believed feeling of superiority in still others. It feeds and nurtures the most base instincts, drives, passions, needs, attitudes, and fears of men (and women) motivating us to compete for survival as though we have less intelligence than other animals and as though we had no blueprints for a higher levels of civilization. In demanding that ‘real men’ abandon their inner emotional reality for fear of not measuring up, the present Masculine Male Stereotype also denies them access to their deeper levels of intuition, creativity, insight, and problem solving. Human progress under the influence of the Masculine Male Stereotype has brought many ‘advancements’ into our world - most of them of some obvious benefits. But, our modern male-conceived, male-achieved, and male-dominated social design reminds me of a verse from the Holy Qur’an in reference to intoxicants and gambling – ‘… in them is some good, but the bad far outweighs the good!’
The promulgators of the Masculine Male Stereotype must – in order to sustain their illusion and delusion – diminish the worth and power of women. To be considered a ‘real woman’ she must never show any behavior remotely resembling those held as sacrosanct and for males only. As a result – for example – even when women’s intuition tells them with certainty that the direction is wrong, many women – their Masculine Principle of Mind subjugated by the prevailing Masculine Male Stereotype – fails to assert clear warning, to sound the alarm, to put on the breaks, to confront the male and call him to the wisdom of his own Feminine Principle of Mind. And, too often, he will be reluctant to listen. The arbitrary designation of males being exclusively masculine and females being exclusively feminine – based upon some equally arbitrary and culturally-based definitions of masculinity and femininity - are at best a dangerous distortion of reality. Every male and every female has a Masculine (objective, conscious, voluntary, active) and a Feminine (subjective, subconscious, involuntary, passive) Principle of Mind.
An Exercise for Understanding
Read all of the instructions before you begin!
Set aside a few minutes where you can be alone and comfortable.
Sit quietly for a few minutes, just long enough to begin feeling relaxed.
Take three breaths – slow, deep inhales through your nose and slow, extended exhales through your mouth.
Now! Ask yourself the question, ‘Who am I?’
Search for the one who asked the question – looking first in the obvious places but then going deeper, like peeling the layers of skin that are the onion.
OK! Try it for a few minutes, or more if your have time!
During your journey you may be able to make the following observations.
At first you may consider that you are your body but should quickly realize that that is not possible. The atomic matter and cells that make up your body are transient – changing in every second of your life. You are NEVER in the same body that you were in a few seconds ago, so how can the one who asked the question be your body?
As you peel back the layer of the physical body you may consider that you are the feelings, tastes, likes, dislikes, personal idiosyncrasies, habits, and other characteristics that you think of as your Self. But, did the question come from here? How could this be the originating source when these too are always changing? Your emotions, feelings, habits, tastes, and likes are born and they die, they emerge, change, and die, and you are a witness to their life cycle. And at any moment during the life cycle of any of the things that you call your Self, the part of you doing the witnessing always experiences itself as ‘I’, speaks of itself as ‘I’, and remains ‘I’ even as those other aspects are born, change, and die. You have to keep looking. That which is permanent and perpetual cannot belong to and be bound by that which is transient. That which is transient must emerge from and be bound to that which is permanent and perpetual.
Who is the owner of these mental states, emotions, feelings, habits, qualities, characteristics, and other personal mental belongings? Who is it that asked the question, ‘Who am I’? All of what you have peeled back so far is that aspect of your Self that you refer to as Me – my body, my feelings, my habits, my ways of doing things, my likes – ‘…that’s just Me, man!’ But then, ‘Who am I?’ And, how do my ‘I’ and my ‘Me’ aspects of Self depend on and relate to each other? Am I balanced in my Masculine and Feminine Principles of Mind? Only your ‘I’ aspect of Self can Create Peaceful Space!
To be continued:
One-by-One we can change our world!
Living in alignment with the Prime Directive
is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!
is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!
Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!
Peace, Love, and Health!
Reference: The Kybalion - Hermetic Philosophy, the Three Initiates, Yogi Publication Society, Chicago, Ill. (1922 - out of publication)
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