The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine

Tree Fitzpatrick therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com
Mon May 29 12:45:44 PDT 2006


I am not sure exactly how but what I am about to report seems related to
this conversation thread re: sacred feminine.

At the second and third evolutionary salons, there were more men than
women.  At the second salon in January, two thirds of the participants were
male.  This surprised everyone for, typically, this kind of gathering would
have more women than men.  At the salon that ended on May 24th, there were
still more males than females, perhaps 5/8th male.

The men attending these evolutionary salons are, in my idiosyncratic
opinion, tangibly different than my generalized, biased perception of a
'typical' male:  open hearts, open souls, high feminine men, sorta.  Of
course, the world is full of wonderful men but I am willing to hazard a
guess that all the men at these salons were wonderful men.  And it was so
lovely, at least for me, to be surrounded by them and not really feel the
male dominator thing I so often feel when around clusters of males.

Now I will share a snippet of what I think of 'The Da Vinci Code'
phenomenon.  I regard it ominously.  It startles me to see it discussed on
this list without a careful disclosure that it is fiction.  This book
represents to me the grievous loss of literature:  formulaic plots written
with leaden prose, plots calculatedly to play on people's emotions,
anxieties, reactivity to, what?  Stretch the mind and the soul?  No, this
book was written to manipulatively sell books to make money.  There is
something about the mass aspect of the phenomenon that alarms me.  I don't
care about the story itself, I guess.  It's okay with me to tromp on
Christian mythology.  But the way this book has tapped into something in
humans, in such a calculatingly callous way, creeps me out. The mindlessnes
with which it seems to be approached.  And gosh, it just creeps me out that
people forget that it is exploitative fiction, not history. I feel a little
diminished to think lf brilliant minds, hearts and souls entertaining
themselves with this as summer entertainment.  A book can be fluff and still
be full of open space and light, even dark books.  But there is something
occult about this book's phenomenon that rattles me.  It took me a long time
to open the posts to the list related to the book because I don't even want
to read it's name.  I only opened this thread because I am cleaning out my
mailbox.




On 5/24/06, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
> I'm posting the below on behalf of Carol Hiltner (incidentally she is not
> the only person having OSlist posting problems)...
>
> Have a granular day!
> raffi
> www.openspaceworld.ru
> ____________________________
>
> The phenomenon of the preponderance of women in "process" work is because,
> put extremely simply, the sacred feminine is about process, being, and
> community, and the sacred masculine is about product/structure, doing, and
> hierarchy.
>
> Process is visible to most humans only when it is manifested as a product
> -- even an explanation is a product. Both men and women with open access to
> the sacred feminine don't need explanation -- they "just get it"! Since we
> are in physical bodies, we must also access the sacred masculine to "just do
> it"! In our Western culture, people are encouraged to "do it" without
> "getting it", resulting in our rampant and destructive materialism. "Getting
> it" without "doing it" has its own liabilities. A dynamic balance is
> necessary.
>
> There are huge cosmic cycles in the dynamic balance of sacred
> masculine/feminine, and we are just past the extreme masculine extension of
> a major cycle. While the sacred masculine was increasing in power, the
> secular masculine power increased as well. The invisible but powerful sacred
> feminine beingness was experienced as threatening to secular hierarchy and
> control, and was actively suppressed, to the point that even those who bear
> the sacred feminine into the secular world still incorporate suppression.
> One of the most striking examples is the common word "sinister," which means
> evil or threatening, and is directly derived from the Latin word meaning
> "left" (the feminine side).
>
> The route toward reclaiming the power of the sacred feminine to bring it
> toward balance with the sacred masculine is exactly what Open Space is:
> beingness balanced with doingness.
>
> Best regards,
> Carol Hiltner
>
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Warmly,
Tree Fitzpatrick
Hearthkeeper

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