Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!l5!sunny From: sunny@l5.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Innate Sexual Differences Message-ID: <175@l5.uucp> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 04:46:40 EDT Article-I.D.: l5.175 Posted: Fri Oct 4 04:46:40 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:03:13 EDT References: <574@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: sunny@l5.UUCP (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco Lines: 74 Keywords: Shirley-McLaine's-Out-On-A-Limb, Androgyny, Incarnation Summary: Androgyny is the goal The Soul is Androgynous. Only the incarnations of that Soul into a physical body "engender" a specific "sex". It is common for a Soul in it's many incarnations to have spent various "lifetimes" in the bodies of both sexes. It is no wonder that in various of these incarnations that the Soul may remember the Karmic problems of previous incarnations, or specifically choose as the Karmic lesson of a specific "life", to incarnate in such a manner that the sex of the physical body is at odds with the "gender" of the imperfected soul... that is to say, that only a perfected Soul is truly Androgynous, and thus in each of our incarnations we are working from some starting point of the gender of the imperfect Soul toward the perfection of Androgyny, and that in the process of many incarnations we will have to learn the lessons of each "Sex". The "innate" sexual differences between "Men" and "Women" are merely imperfections to be overcome through spiritual growth. But then, so is every other aspect of life in the physical plane. All the answers are to be found within yourself. And all the answers are the same... the perfection of the Soul's ability to love. If more people could see this simple truth, and be accepting of Androgyny, we'd all progress more rapidly. It is only our collective failures to be loving of our brethren which causes "society" to force each person to live the gender role IT associates with each of the sexes. Assumption that sex and gender are paired (male-masculine) and (female-feminine) is our first mistake. If we could but assign four bits to this spectrum: Male (Yes/No) Female (Yes/No) Masculine (Yes/No) Feminine (Yes/No) I would have always had to answer Yes to both Masculine and Feminine, and since my hormonally assisted growth preceeding TransSexual surgery, I can answer Yes to Female (Secondary sexual characteristics) and Yes to Male (Primary (Genital)) The next step is to realize that none of these is binary, but is a grey-scale continuum. Ultimately, Androgyny of the Soul is the Goal. Sex of the body is irrelevant, except when it comes to sexual intercourse. Gender of the Soul is relevant to (and *usually* matched with body sex) the possible exchanges of energy between two people, as in Tantrik Yoga, given the polarities of energy in the various chakras are opposite for men and women. Here there is a strong favoring of heterosexual (to be precise, hetero-spiritual-gender) pairings to achieve the maximum effect. As a "woman-hearted-man" (as the ancients or primitives would call me), my genitals may yet be male, but my spirit is very feminine, and is ruled by many feminine planets in my natal chart. My Sun Sign is Cancer, the Moon, feminine, and being ruled by the planet which traverses the sky most frequently, I'm not only very emotional and subject to the lunar cycle of 28.3 days, but my ruling planet "crosses" the others more frequently than any other, so it only takes the traversing of a short period of time for me to transition from harmony to discord with each of the various other signs. Without digressing too far from the subject of "innate sexual differences", or getting too deeply into the spiritual aspects of our, and especially *my* incarnation this time around, I'd like to make the general point that, the biggest failing in the world today is to focus too much on the scientific and rational and logical analysis of the observable aspects of the physical plane, and to spend too little effort in being aware of, feeling, the subconscious, the life force, the spiritual which truly *is* the universe, rather than the partial manifestation of it known as "the real world", observable by our first 5 senses and by scientific instruments designed to augment them. Feel with your heart, rather than think with your mind. Oh, I know it's very threatening to let go of the safety and security of *thinking* you've got all the answers because you can rationalize your way around the physical plane, but you can't really start to learn much until you start feeling your spirit, and it's oneness with far more than you can ever "scientifically prove". Sunny -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!l5!sunny (Copyright 1985 by Ms. Sunny Kirsten)