I am bringing this issue up for others to meditate on. How you feel and sense soul gender will be individual because we are all unique. It has bothered me greatly that the spiritual communities are still talking about male and female polarity, energies as masculine and feminine as if they are explaining anything deep or esoteric. That language is meaningless. I feel that we need to define our receptivity as a spectrum of sensitive polarities.
We all know that we have male and female so called qualities yet we are hard-pressed to list those qualities. Everyone is entitled to be angry. Any gender can be aggressive. Aggressive is neither male nor female. Receptivity is neither female or male when it comes to pure love. We all have rights to have our own unique emotional make-up and express them. The old school male-female models lack freedom of expression. I feel we need to explore new ways of expressing how perceptive and receptive we are in various forms of expression. Our views of expression need to synchronize with our spectrum of emotional expressions. Our language needs to be flexible to accommodate shifts in our awareness of self and other.
A lot of us also change polarity with partners. One partner, we might be more magnetic in negative polarity while the other is positive. For instance, one may initiate activities such as sex while the other is receptive to sex. Yet with another partner altogether, we might be entirely the opposite. Or, a relationship may express a range of shifts and alternating changes in polarity between partners. It is as if the soul to soul relationship itself has its own yin yang polarity.
I feel that this ideal of male-female energy dynamics is quite limiting. Limitations are not only about sex but about all qualities of life. One partner might be shy in a certain group of people and gregarious in another group of people while the other partner is the opposite. One partner may be express emotions in words while the other expresses emotions with physical gestures. No expression of sentience is either male or female. The ancient civilizations were based on ideals of isolating polarities in nature. The ancient gods and goddesses represented male and female polarities which gave meaning to the order of objects and circumstance-order from the chaos. However, there are references to sexuality which defies polarity.
Sexuality itself has its own gods and goddesses and some those are androgynous. I feel that this male-female role playing is so over-emphasized that it really places a lot of pressure back into the same old role models. That is a backwards step for humankind not forward evolution. Indigenous tribes such as Native Americans describe same-sex mated souls as Double Souls. We will revisit other ancient and indigenous terminology over the course of time. For now, suffice to say, itself was an ideal which the Ancient Greek Philosophers discussed openly and left remnants of their teachings on soul and gender. For home work, read: The Symposium: and, The Phaedrus; Plato’s erotic dialogues. Translated and with introduction and commentaries by William S. Cobb. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7914-1617-4.
I take these things seriously because in the future, when I write about these issues to leave what I learn behind, I would like to open people’s minds to other ways of expressing gender vs. limiting them. The spiritual world needs to catch up to gender as non-role playing issues so we can all evolve on this planet and end the war of being our soul selves.
Please make comments about this issue when you feel you can do it. This issue is one that needs addressing as a spiritual community.
Namaste
Jedhi
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