Oops! I am flying into the future.
I meant to write, see you at the US Constellations Conference October
10-13, 2013 here in Seattle.
Blessings
Anutosh
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Anutoshf Foo <anutoshf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello and thank you all dear friends
So many rich conversations here and so little time to read them:-((
Thank you so much for all the different flavors that you each offer.
Delicious.
Dan, thank you for your contribution and I am once again reminded that
consciousness is just consciousness and has no male or female attached to
it. Thank you.
I just had an amazing Feldenkrais session and I am so convinced that is is
all a big ? For me at least. And I am in awe of this ?
Looking forward to seeing all of you attending the October Conference in
2014.
Love & Blessings
Anutosh
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Dan Booth Cohen, PhD <
danboothcohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Dear Anni and others -
In one sense, there is no masculine or feminine. For the interactions of
energy and matter in quantum space-time, masculine and feminine are
meaningless.
In one sense, the definitions of masculine and feminine are cultural
constructs. Naming God the Father, may tell us nothing about the truth of
God or fathers, but it does exert tremendous influence in the lives of
nearly every human, certainly all of us who speak and read English.
In one sense, masculine and feminine are physiologically determined. Men
have two tongues. Women have two mouths. Every human grows from a father's
seed and mother's egg in the womb.
There are some qualities of masculine and feminine that are meaningless,
some that are cultural constructs and some that are physical facts. I have
complex relationships with many women. I sometimes struggle to be mediate
between spirit, soul and body. Some relationships fail, some endure, some
become electric.
Thomas Bryson has written about human consciousness as having multiple
aspects like the ocean, the wave, and the water drop. Constellations
expand
our awareness beyond the perspective of the drop. We can feel the pull of
the rise and fall of the wave we call the family system. Some
Constellations
go beyond the drop and the wave. The ocean speaks to us directly: "I am
water. Feel me loving every part of you - there is no part that I do not
love!"
Dan
Dan Booth Cohen, PhD
2013 US Systemic Constellations Conference, October 10-13, Seattle, WA
<http://constellateus.com/conference2013/>
6th North American Systemic Constellations Intensive, July 31 - August 4,
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Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Re: Shiva, Kali, Divine Feminine, Destroyer
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Hello to all, The conversations here are so enriching. I want to add to
the
thought Carolyn had when she wrote:
"This image of the divine couple certainly gives us a different view than
that of the Male War God and Subservient Sinful Woman stripped of her own
divinity. This image of the divine, and other Goddess images, challenge
the
polarized assignments of attributes that are currently considered to be
"naturally" masculine or feminine. Such examination might even challenge
some of the "truths" we see in the field."
Yes, I do agree that whatever our learnings, they have the capacity to
influence the "truth" of what we see and do not see. It is not only images
but other blindnesses we have from language and culture that make our way
of
seeing so difficult to shift. Here as we speak of feminine and masculine
we
have been in most of this discussion in a masculine based culture where
power and status are aligned with what we see as masculine qualities. My
own
culture of the Saami people historically was quite different although the
colonization by European religious and cultural attitudes has nearly
obliterated even references to the role of the feminine in that culture.
From what I can glean, women of this indigenous culture were not only
equals
in hunting and politics but in spirituality the feminine appears to have
the
highest of places. Being an Arctic culture, the sun is the most important
deity and this is a female goddess. The feminine comprises many of the
qualities we see many times in other cultures as male qualities. So is
this
a truth?
I am currently reading a novel in which the author describes the ancient
Saami virgin not as a chaste woman but rather a woman who is sexually
active
but has no man to which she answers. She is not married.
Why am I giving this information? Primarily, the truth as Carolyn suggests
is coloured by our experience and the myths to which we give credence.
Truth
is an evasive quality. As facilitators, we are called to observe. At which
point when we speak are we being true to truth or only to the truth we
believe we know.
Working with First Nations indigenous individuals in Canada, I have
observed
an order in some families that is different than the order we frequently
see
in families of European descent. Are the orders a truth or a truth for
that
cultural system?
Can we say with clarity what is feminine or masculine? Are these inherent
truths or socially accepted systemic manifestations?
Have a lovely weekend, Anni
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