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Críostóir:
I have a question that I would like to ask, but I would like to state a few things first so that what I ask may not be taken in the wrong way. I also hope this is the right place to post this topic.

First, I apologize for not contributing to conversations on this forum. I am generally busy, and topics posted on this forum tend to generate enormous volumes of responses which I find to be overwhelming in my limited time to read them. Although I find them interesting and intriguing, I seem to process and reflect on things rather slowly. Therefore, by the time I am ready to post a comment, I discover that someone else has already posted that which I was about to write. I also find this medium of communication awkward. I prefer to communicate by talking and smoking a cigarette. I even refuse to text, except when it is more expedient to give and receive information, that is, I don’t chat by texting.

Second, if this topic has already been discussed elsewhere, please understand that I am unaware of it.

Third, if anyone finds my questions offensive in any way, understand that that is not my intention. I have pondered this question for awhile and I cannot find anyone who can answer it, or more precisely, give a definition to that which I sense, but cannot explain.

That said, here is my question. What is the “feminine energy”?

In the articles Witches, Comets and Planetary Cataclysms, and
 The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction, by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, she writes concerning “how the feminine energy of our society was debased step-by-step over millennia”.

Although I somewhat intuit what I think she means by “feminine energy”, I do not know what it is in an objective sense. I know that feminine in a basic sense means qualities commonly associated with women. But, what is it?

I intuit that it has an essence or source in a realm above third density. Like the light that cast the shadows on the wall in Plato’s Allegory of the cave. I suppose one could list many things that have feminine energy, but what is it itself?

I suppose what I think is being referred to is a perspective of the world view in which reality is seen as unifying in the sense of an offspring to its mother--a child is born from its mother and is therefore of its mother.

I concluded this from a passage in The Golden Age article, which states: “The implicit message in the image of the goddess is a vision of all life as a living Unity. The feminine image is like a lens that focuses our perception of the universe as a sacred whole, alive and giving, and we on earth are the children of the Cosmos.”

Herakles:
I find that to be an excellent question and look forward to discussion.

It is late here just now however so I will not be writing much tonight.

The topic is vast, as far as I see. 

We can keep it very simple and straight down the line, or we can discuss it from a number of examples and add a great deal of rich variety.  I am sure there will be rich and varied responses too.

Again, truly great question.

And welcome to the forum.

Bluelamp:

--- Quote from: Críostóir on July 19, 2011, 06:06:44 AM ---I suppose what I think is being referred to is a perspective of the world view in which reality is seen as unifying in the sense of an offspring to its mother--a child is born from its mother and is therefore of its mother.

I concluded this from a passage in The Golden Age article, which states: “The implicit message in the image of the goddess is a vision of all life as a living Unity. The feminine image is like a lens that focuses our perception of the universe as a sacred whole, alive and giving, and we on earth are the children of the Cosmos.”

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I think there's a description where the cosmos at its center has the femine giving/birthing aspect (service to others) and also the male taking into one's self aspect (service to self).  The service to self aspect, if you stay on that path would at some point get recycled back to primordial matter (1st density) for a retry.

Críostóir:

--- Quote from: Bluelamp on July 19, 2011, 08:31:21 AM ---I think there's a description where the cosmos at its center has the femine giving/birthing aspect (service to others) and also the male taking into one's self aspect (service to self).  The service to self aspect, if you stay on that path would at some point get recycled back to primordial matter (1st density) for a retry.

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I can see the relationship between service to others as being a feminine aspect. A mother gives life to her young and nourishes it through pregnancy, then gives birth and gives it food through her milk and cares for it. But, if the male aspect is taking into ones self, or, service to self, how is that relationship articulated?

Psalehesost:

--- Quote from: Bluelamp on July 19, 2011, 08:31:21 AM ---I think there's a description where the cosmos at its center has the femine giving/birthing aspect (service to others) and also the male taking into one's self aspect (service to self).  The service to self aspect, if you stay on that path would at some point get recycled back to primordial matter (1st density) for a retry.

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I think that service to others and service to self both can be described in feminine as well as masculine terms. And observing the dynamics in this world, you see both self-serving and other-serving aspects expressed in both masculine and feminine ways.

Or in short, there is the creative feminine and/or the creative masculine, as well as the "dark feminine" and/or the "dark masculine".

The STS aspect of All/Creator, the thought center of Non-being, which seeks to swallow up creation, could also be symbolized according to the archetype of the "Terrible Mother", who devours her children. As such, both aspects of the All (positive/negative) could be symbolized as feminine; and both could likewise be symbolized as masculine.

Masculinity and femininity as such seems to be confined to lower densities.

--- Quote from: 000408 ---A: In your density, masculinism/feminish is essentially a roll of "the dice." Remember, at higher levels gender is nonexistent.

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When we use these in metaphysical descriptions, I think we are merely allocating symbols from our mode of existence to illustrate "higher" realities. This can work well. And can be done in a variety of ways.

--- Quote from: Laura on January 09, 2011, 08:59:40 PM ---In many ancient systems, the "soul" or animator is male/penetrating and the matter/mater, that which exists in a state of receptivity, is feminine.

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Both varieties of description, centered on the feminine or centered on the masculine, could be expressed in a genuine, creative way - or could be ponerized (courtesy of psychopathology and the directions of 4D STS), as in the examples of our monotheistic religions.


--- Quote from: Críostóir on July 19, 2011, 09:24:38 AM ---I can see the relationship between service to others as being a feminine aspect. A mother gives life to her young and nourishes it through pregnancy, then gives birth and gives it food through her milk and cares for it. But, if the male aspect is taking into ones self, or, service to self, how is that relationship articulated?

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If symbolized as male, it could for example be given as a Slaying aspect.

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