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Posted by gracieuse
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I'd like to close off with quote by Eckhart Tolle, from a "new earth", which gives us all something to think about from a historical perspective (which again, I think is shifting):
"The suppression of the feminine principle especially over the past two thousand years has enabled the ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche. Although women have egos, of course, the ego can take root and grow more easily in the male form than in the female. This is because women are less mind-identified than men. (...) The female form is less rigidly encapsulated than the male, has greater openness and sensitivity toward other life forms, and is more attuned to the natural world.
If the balance between male and female energies had not been destroyed on our planet, the ego's growth would have been greatly curtailed. We would not have declared war on nature, and we would not be so completely alienated from our Being.
Nobody knows the exact figure (...) but it seems certain that during a three-hundred-year period between three and five million women were tortured and killed by the "Holy Inquisition" (...). The sacred feminine was declared demonic, and an entire dimension largely disappeared from human experience. (...) Women's status was reduced to being child bearers and men's property. Male who denied the feminine within themselves were now running the world ... The rest is history or rather a case history of insanity. (...) What is it that suddenly made men feel threatened by the female? The evolving ego in them. It knew it could gain full control of our planet only through the male form, and to do so, it had to render the female powerless.
In time, the ego also took over most women, although it could never become as deeply entrenched in them as in men. We now have a situation in which the suppression of the feminine has become internalized, even in most women. The sacred feminine, because it is suppressed, is felt by many women as emotional pain. In fact, it has become part of their pain-body, together with the accumulated pain suffered by women over millennia through childbirth, rape, slavery, torture and violent death." (p. 155-157)
Interestingly, Tolle describes how this pain body become active before and during menstruation (hence, PMS)...
That is sooo interesting, particularly the part about women having built their ego as well, suppressed their feminine and when the feminine express itself, it is felt in the pain body, as emotional pain.
This, from my own personal experience, cannot be more true. I have been raised using my brain for studies, and then always worked in a male world. Therefore, I had to suppress emotions and inner feelings (they take more time to process and in a male world, action is prime, not time for processing).
I ended up at the other end of my career extremely dissatisfied by work experiences and mostly, having very difficult time with women in management whose suppression of the feminine in their attitude was worst than mine. I must say that I was/am in total emotional pain regarding work. This has nothing to do with the challenges and interests in the work itself, it was/is very stimulating, this has to do with suppression of the feminine 8 hours plus a day.
Furthermore, when I was pregnant, with a daughter, I was very sad. Someone asked me "why?" and my answer was "because I know she will have a much more difficult life than any boy would have", and I do not wish that for her. Right or wrong, it does not matter, what matters is that I was expression my emotional body pain about suppression of my own feminine.
I truly love her by now, 16 years later, she is really beautiful and does impose herself as feminine yet decisive. I hope she will make me wrong on the difficulties women encounter versus men.
A little à côté: I always feel like my feminine is suppressed while reading or exchanging with some very male energies here, such as Bill (my own confession), sometimes Paul, and others. I am however very much knowing that those are my own perception in regard to my own supressions of feminine. It really feels like when I communicate with someone from another culture, who does not know mine, and where I am the one making all the effort to adapt and translate cultural concepts, here being translating different cultural (feminine) point of views and having to make one sided efforts all along.
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