The Feminine Wing, Finale

Have you ever thought about all the ways in which you perhaps daily impose your will on natural/physical/biological intelligence?

When you eat, do you pay attention to whether the food gives your body pleasure, vitality, vigor? Or do you just expect your body to digest whatever you choose?

Is your home arranged in a way that your body finds comforting, nourishing, supportive?

Do you rest when you're tired, or do you drink a Red Bull?

Do you ever give yourself time to feel what you're feeling? Or do you think that some of your feelings are wrong, bad, childish, or irrelevant, and so you ignore them?

When you look in the mirror, do you appreciate your body, or do you criticize it?

Do you think that your body is what holds you back from being a good person? Do you follow spiritual disciplines aimed at making yourself good?

Do you put toxic chemicals on your body with the idea of making it "smell good?" 

Do you put toxic chemicals on your lawn so that it will "look good?" Do you think grass is the most useful thing to grow on your land? If yes, why? If no, why?

Here's the point I'm trying to make, courtesy of an ad agency. Ad agencies, in my experience, tend to be very big on the idea of humans imposing their will on natural/physical/biological intelligence.

This video is available on youtube at http://youtu.be/MvFSgXpyhoM

Human will is your birthright and I'm not suggesting that you give it up.

I'm suggesting that you become aware of how you impose your will on natural/physical/biological intelligence. 

When you become aware, you are in a position to start thinking about how you can use your will to begin co-operating with natural/physical/biological intelligence. It wants to co-operate with you. When the co-operation begins, your life moves away from suffering, and towards pleasure.

What would topiary collaboratively created with natural/physical/biological intelligence look like?

The Feminine Wing, Continued... What Disgusts You?

We humans have created a lot of suffering for ourselves, by rejecting large swathes of our insight, intuition, wisdom, and feeling. Also by rejecting large swathes of the activity of natural/physical/biological intelligence. Whether we like what natural/physical/biological intelligence is doing or not, it always has something to teach us.

WHAT DISGUSTS YOU?

It is the capacity of the feminine to embrace. That capacity can be used to expand our knowledge and our awareness. Here's an exercise I sometimes do in my collaboration with Nature classes.

1. Think about all the landscapes, skies, creatures, and plants you know... also all the various situations you've been in that involved mainly other nature beings, not other humans. Where does your memory draw you into disgust, into repulsion, into revulsion, perhaps even into terror or rage?

2. Remember the plant or creature or situation vividly. Let yourself feel those feelings of revulsion, repulsion, disgust, or intense fear or anger. Those feelings represent your survival instincts in action and I respect them for that work. However, they do not tell the whole truth about natural/physical/biological intelligence. Natural/physical/biological intelligence has its own perceptions of itself, and adding those to your internal mix gets you closer to the whole truth. 

3. Take a few breaths, noticing your breath, until you notice how pleasurable it is to breathe. As you notice the pleasure of breathing, your mind will begin becoming less verbal. That is the state you want. Then say, "Natural/physical/biological intelligence, I give you 100 percent permission to show me, vividly and clearly, your perspective on [name whatever it is that you have identified as especially repulsive, terrifying, or angering].

4. Sit quietly, and notice any new thoughts, images, or sensations that come to you. If you have focused your intention sincerely, those thoughts, images, or sensations will be communications from natural/physical/biological intelligence.

5. When you feel that the "transmission" is complete (whether or not you understand it), thank natural/physical/biological intelligence. Whether or not you feel you understand what came to you, if you stay alert over the next few days,  you'll gain more insights into the communication you received. 

AWAY FROM SUFFERING

6. Those insights will change your relationship with your world, and they will move you away from suffering and towards pleasure.

(For more information on the "nuts and bolts" of dialogue with natural/physical/biological intelligence, please see the series of posts starting here:
http://praiseincarnation.blogspot.com/2011/09/dialoguing-with-naturethe-nuts-and.html)

The Feminine Wing

Do you love and respect the feminine energy currents within you and within others?

Here's one simple way to start exploring the question... how do you feel about menstruation and the menstrual cycle in general?

From my perspective, the menstrual cycle is a core structure in the "feminine wing" of humanity. But it sure doesn't get to contribute to our collective evolution very much, at least on the conscious levels.

Instead, men and women alike are taught that menstruation is shameful, taboo, and almost inevitably painful.

I have profoundly challenged these ideas in my life and found that menstruation can be an ecstatically pleasurable experience, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 

If you are interested in knowing more about how to get there yourself, feel free to email me... I'm happy to send you an article I've written on this subject.

Here's an ad about the "feminine wing," which I offer in a spirit of playfulness...  please note that I personally do not recommend the use of menstrual pads made from bleached, artificial, and synthetic materials. I consider my yoni to be a place designed to give life and birth, not to be rubbed against materials that have been excessively manipulated in what I consider an unbalanced direction. I just couldn't resist though, the word play involved in imagining a maxi pad that has wings! I'd love to see awareness of the power of the menstrual cycle "take flight" across the globe, so that humanity can access the wisdom and life force inherent in this feminine life process.

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Pleasure... True or False? The Question Revisited

As far as I'm concerned, when we are talking masculine and feminine, we are talking baseline.

How the masculine and feminine interact is the baseline determinant for the quality of pleasure we experience.

It's all about harmony... skillful, creative work with difference.

When the socket embraces the electrical plug, the machine turns on.

When the cell receptor site embraces the hormone, the cell activates.

When the agenda book receives the writing of the pen, the person has a "to do" list—a list filled, one hopes, with pleasurable activities.

Humans have a much wider range of choice than the other beings on the planet. Such a wide range, in fact, that we are capable of moving against the flows of Divinely inspired creativity, justice, wisdom, and love.

We are also capable of dragging other beings along with us on such ill-advised paths.

When we misuse the interaction of feminine and masculine, we wound ourselves in the most profound ways.

The embrace of the masculine by the feminine and the gifting into the feminine by the masculine are intimate and vulnerable procedures. Amongst humans, these procedures can be used to facilitate everything from respectful, loving connection to petty thievery to plunder and rape. Any pleasure gained from thievery or rape is of extremely low quality and will severely impact the viability of the bodies of the people involved. This is similar to how the embrace of the mouth around a low quality food will severely impact the viability of the body attached to that mouth.

What quality of pleasure have you written into your agenda today?