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In is stated in “The
Masculine Creative Aspect of the Creative/Creation Process”:
The masculine is energized or catalyzed into action when it is
loved, accepted and embraced for who and what it is, as it is,
without the need to change, by the
feminine aspect of being. The feminine is what calls forth the
masculine to act. In this regard, the
nurturing feminine creative energy can excite and pull out of
the masculine things that it does not know lies inside itself.
Similarly, it is stated in ‘The
Feminine Creative Aspect of the Creative/Creation Process”:
The feminine is energized or catalyzed into action when it loved,
accepted and embraced for who and what it is, and feels safe,
secure, protected and taken care of by the
masculine aspect of being. Only when she feel such love and
acceptance can the
nurturing feminine creative energy can flow and properly nourish
her creation.
The situation as described in these two statements leaves us in the
proverbial Catch 22.
A Catch-22 refers to a situation in which we seemingly can not break
out. Or, alternatively said, it is a situation where the way we are
thinking keeps us in
a cage of our own making and does not allow you to break out of
that cage. To break out, we have to “step out of the box.” That is,
we have to
step out of mind
or out of our way of thinking to find a solution. In some ways a
Catch-22 is like the proverbial question about which comes first the
chicken or the egg.
If the author’s understanding is correct, the term “Catch 22" comes
from a book which subseqently become a movie of the same title. The
book was a fictional story about bomber pilots in World War II. The
issue in the movie was that it was totally insane to fly the
missions being assigned. In essence, you had to be crazy to want to
fly such mission. The Catch 22 was that if you were insane you did
not have to fly the combat mission. However if you knew it was
insane to fly the directed mission or you were going insane because
of flying such mission, then you were sane and had to fly because
you realized the insanity of the bombing missions. If you wanted to
fly the assigned insane missions then you were crazy. But if wanted
to fly you didn’t know you were crazy so you flew the insane
missions. One pilot did find a way to get out of the Catch-22- but
of course you will have to watch the movie or read the book to find
out how he did it.
The real issue we face in the catch 22 revolves around the
inner masculine aspect becoming whole and complete. Creation
does not occur in isolation. It always occurs as a dance between the
observer and the observed within a context of observation. That
basic dance is reflected in the
dance between the masculine and the feminine both within the
creation, the dance of the
masculine aspect and
feminine aspect of
creation/Creation,
and within each the observer and the observed -
the dance of the inner masculine and inner feminine.
Because of the way creation works, there will always be a flow of
energy giving rise to and sustaining creation. That flow of energy
which nurtures and sustains creation is the
feminine aspect of
creation/Creation.
Our bodies and our
creative spirit are sustained by the feminine aspect of
creation/Creation. The
masculine aspect of creation/Creation gives us life or rather
causes our life, but the feminine aspect of creation/Creation is
what nourishes and sustains life. The issue with the feminine boils
down to is she allow to nurture her creation or is she enslaved to
nurture the creation of another. Whether or not she is enslaved
centers on the inner masculine and the role it does or doesn’t play.
The masculine is energized or catalyzed into action when it is
loved, accepted and embraced for who and what it is, as it is,
without the need to change, by the
feminine aspect of being. For the
masculine
to be catalyzed into action, it must be fully and unconditionally
loved by the feminine whether that feminine is found internally or
externally. This brings an extremely interesting phenomenon and
actually becomes a self limiting process unless one become aware
enough to break out of the cycle or to work with another to boot
strap each other out of the pattern.
The reason for this phenomenon is that the
feminine is energized or catalyzed into action when it loved,
accepted and embraced for who and what she is, and feels safe,
secure, protected and taken care of by the
masculine aspect of being sufficient to nurture and sustain any
offspring. Because the feminine will always give more of itself in
any creative effort to nurture and sustain a creation than the
masculine,
the feminine will hold out in whatever way it can to ensure itself
the greatest safe and secure environment to do its nurturing and to
try and ensure it gets the best possible mate to father the
offspring.
Nature often works to this end in providing the masculine with
secondary sex characteristics to help the feminine choose an
appropriate masculine partner.
Evidence suggests that this trait of holding out is so strong in the
feminine it has influenced the way life has evolved on the
planet. Many scientists who study the mating process in nature
believe that the male ornaments characteristic in many species in
nature are to entice the females to select them. Males fight
competition over females for the right to mate. There is a seduction
through sexual display and female choice. It is believe this has
occurred in nature because the female is then able to choose the
“best” male because of the effort she expends in raising young.
Because the female spends so much effort they want a good mate, the
males competition to get female attention. The female selects
because of what they have to give to the creation that results. The
females hold out for the best genes as displayed in what the species
has evolved in the male ornaments. In time, for any species,
important indicators of the best males, the male traits, then become
bright and exaggerated over time. Secondary sex characteristics is
natures way of dealing with the fact the feminine gives so much
in the creation process. This, almost instinctual holding out of the
feminine for the best becomes the proverbial “Catch 22" both
internally and externally. It does so for the following reason.
For the
masculine
to be energized and catalyzed into action and to become whole and
complete, it needs to be unconditionally love and fully accepted and
embraced for who and what it is. It cannot become what the
feminine needs until it is loved fully and freely by a whole and
complete feminine. The whole and complete feminine is where the
feminine is free to nurture and sustain the unfoldment of the
creation it nourishes in whatever way necessary. However the same it
true for the feminine. It cannot become whole and complete and
provide the correct space for the masculine to unfold until it is
provided the safe and secure space by the whole and complete
masculine.
So we are faced with the proverbial chicken or the egg issue. That
is, “What comes first, the chicken or the egg?” Here the problem
is,”Does the
masculine
find a
whole and complete
feminine to be nurtured in the way it needs to be nurtured to
become whole and complete first, or does the
feminine find a whole and complete masculine for it to become
whole and complete to nurture the offspring?” If neither the
masculine or the feminine have received unconditional love in their
unfoldment, that is, being fully free to unfold true to one’s nature
in every way, they cannot create the space for another to get it.
Consequently the hurt and injured feminine continues to hurt and
injury the masculine and is unable to provide what the masculine
needs to become complete. Similarly, the hurt and injured masculine
cannot create that safe and secure space for what the feminine needs
for it to become whole and complete. Hence neither the masculine or
the feminine gets fully what it needs and neither fully develop as
they should. More importantly, they continue to pass their
incompleteness onto the offspring. Since neither the masculine or
the feminine recognizes they are incomplete they tend to take what
they need to the best of their ability and end up creating a world
that feels predatory rather that a world of communion. Rather than
the masculine and feminine being balanced fully in communion with
each other, each is eating and devouring the other adding to the
feelings the world is predatory.
On the note of being predatory there is the issue of anger. If the
masculine aspect becomes frustrated or angry at not being
allowed to express itself, that dissatisfaction will fuel actions
that are felt as predatory and at its worse can only be described as
a raging beast. It is the anger and dissatisfaction that many feel
within their being at not being free to unfold true to oneself that
gives the creative passion of the heart a bad name. Rather than the
energy freely flowing into creation, it flow outward in a rage and
anger. Or, if it is suppressed, there is pain and we seek to numb
the pain and end up developing one or more addictions.
What often happens is the pain of denial becomes so great it come
out as an angry rage. Yet it exist only because the
inner feminine is not sufficient to nurture what is felt. When
our feelings which arise from the
feminine aspect of our being are denied the
masculine aspect of our being is left to feel pain and anger.
Here again the feminine flows in response to the masculine. If the
masculine is not free to be itself, true to its nature, anything it
creates will not be free to unfold for the feminine forms in
response to the masculine even if the feminine is whole.
Yet the
feminine is what allows the
masculine
to become true to its nature since it nurtures and sustains the
masculine. What is often not understood is that the feminine excites
the masculine into action. She is what causes desire to arise in the
masculine. The feminine can choose to arouse or not arouse the
masculine and
call it forth into creation and give it the space to unfold true
to itself. The
feminine aspect must be fully functional and fully expressed
true to itself if it is going to nurture the masculine to be true to
its nature. But the masculine must be fully functional and fully
expressed true to itself to be able to surrender to protect and
defend the feminine. Otherwise the feminine will not be free to
nurture the new creation. As a result the feminine is unable to
support the masculine in the way it needs to be supported and the
masculine is unable to support the feminine the way it needs
supported. The only thing that breaks the pattern is a strong
creative passion or a strong dissatisfaction with what is.
Consequently, we are again back to the proverbial Catch 22.
The problem is that all is energy consciousness. The
feminine aspect also has a
masculine
and feminine part and the masculine has a masculine and feminine
part. These parts mimic and copy what they experience. Hence any
feminine aspect that is incomplete and never been fully expressed
has a feminine part within itself that is incomplete and never fully
express. As such, it has created an incomplete and never fully
expressed
masculine aspect as its reflection. So too with the masculine.
An incomplete masculine aspect has never been fully expressed
creating a incomplete and never fully expresses masculine part and a
corresponding incomplete and never fully expresses feminine part.
Hence the problem exist both internal and externally to one’s being.
In unawareness, the problem gets transmitted from generation to
generation in any offspring created by either the
masculine
or the
feminine and yet neither the masculine or the feminine will see
themselves as incomplete in any way for they know no other way to
be. Their incompleteness permeates their being and it looks normal
to them for they know no other way to be. The only way one will
break out of the cycle is to look both internally and externally
simultaneously at what is being reflected.
If one realizes the external world is a reflection of the internally
world, one can then use the inner and the outer as reflections to
identify where the incompleteness lies. If one looks at the
incompleteness in their external world, they will know where they
are incomplete in their inner world. In fixing the inner world and
letting go of the previous form that has been created internally and
externally, the external world can transform to meet the inner
world.
To do this, one will need some external companion or reference to
use as an external reflection of the inner. This then brings up a
whole new set of problems because unless the external companion is
willing to change, they will want to keep us bound in our old form.
We then have to let them go if we wish to continue to change and we
will have to start over with another for they have a completely
different set of incompletenesses. If however this companion is
willing to change in response to our inner changes the two can grow
together. Of course, we will have to response to their inner changes
as they respond to our changes. The process is extremely dynamic and
a dance. The dance that must be done however, cannot occur unless
there is some commitment to last thought the duration of the
evolution process.
The question then of course will arise, “What does a
whole and complete masculine or
whole and complete feminine look like given the fact that each
entity is a unique creation?” The answers is relative simple. We
cannot compare any one
feminine or
masculine aspect to another for they all will be unique at each
and every level of being. However, a whole and complete feminine or
masculine
will be able to create the space to allow another to be totally free
to unfold true to their nature at each and every level of their
being whatever it looks like. In doing so, we will see that fruit of
the being burst forth as a flower bursts forth in the spring. The
masculine or feminine will know when they are complete when they are
capable of creating the space for the fruits of another to come
forth. And what do another’s fruits look like? We don’t know until
we create the space to find out. Unless one learns to create the
correct space, one will never know.
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