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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> desmond rice
[mailto:desrice1@hotmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>May 23, 2006</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>12:07 PM</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hhowen@verizon.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: The Da Vinci
Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine</span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Great
insight Owen. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Having
been raised as a Northern Catholic, I am very familiar with the Western
suppression of The Feminine. I found that as I made and continue to make my
journey of understanding of life, I was and am frequently the token male,
or in a serious minority, at a variety of courses/ classes on yoga,
Tai chi, Buddhism, Reiki, sound healing, life coaching etc, anywhere
where one gets results by allowing energy to take it's course.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For some
reason females are much more open to any new knowledge, which might
produce results and more workable lives, even when they cannot explain how or
why it worked.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Part
of the explanation could be that in our society, anything that worked
but could not be explained was likely to have been "The devils work",
or some sort of black magic. Perhaps there are still relics of this in all
western societies.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> But
it does not explain why women should be more open to events/ happenings which
seem to work because they use cosmic energy/rules or whatever? Maybe, in the eyes
of western man, it is "ok for them" they can "fool around"
with these things, because they dont have the "Serious things" to
contend with in the boardroom, or would not be as likely to be ridiculed by
their peers? Maybe they have less to loose in strange sort of way.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It does
cause me great concern that the male decision makers in business and politics
are so closed to the admission that their understanding of life and their
ability to force solutions may be flawed. Who knows better how to heal the
cosmos than the cosmos? So why not let it through OS and other natural
routes?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I agree
that The Da vinci Code was a riveting read, if historically
inaccurate. If it helps to lead people to question dogma and certainty, and
become more open to a less "certain" view of life, then it
may serve a purpose.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Desmond Rice, </span></font>Belfast, N Ireland</p>
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