I am not sure exactly how but what I am about to report seems related to this conversation thread re: sacred feminine.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raffi Aftandelian</b> <<a href="mailto:raffi@bk.ru">raffi@bk.ru</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear colleagues,<br>I'm posting the below on behalf of Carol Hiltner (incidentally she is not the only person having OSlist posting problems)...<br><br>Have a granular day!<br>raffi<br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.ru">
www.openspaceworld.ru</a><br>____________________________<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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).<br><br>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
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