(02-29-2012, 06:36 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: I have noticed through the continual process of experimentation that the single most important factor in my being able to maintain both stamina and subtlety of energy flow in order for us to climax simultaneously is a commitment to focusing on her while neglecting any effort to bring myself to orgasm on my own. She will do that for me as I do so for her. All of great magical virtues come into play here: will, faith, purity.
Well said! By giving selflessly to the woman, the man's yang (outward) energy is 'pulled in' by the yin. Yin is attracting.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Not in general but when it comes to the evolution of our psyches... Yes I do. Less time passed so it will have had less effect on the hard wired and thus more intrinsic qualities of male or female psychology... For other parts of our psychology, the last few millenia will be more important. But in this case with deeply rooted archetypes I'd look back over a long time, not just (cosmically speaking) last week...
If spiritual evolution were linear, I'd agree. But I don't think it is. There are quantum jumps in consciousness, like the one we're now embarking on.
In addition, you seem to be viewing this from a physical evolution standpoint. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) ie. viewing evolution of humans as a species, starting from the physical and evolving in consciousness.
I don't view our evolution that way. Many of the souls who did those things (whether it's raping/pillaging, worshiping the Goddess, or whatever) later incarnated into other cultures with completely different value systems. I see it more as individual souls hopping about, trying out different roles in different cultures, for the purpose of experiencing different types of catalyst.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Under normal circumstances I would agree. But the artificial roles imposed upon men and women do not allow us to consider much of the recent history to be considered normal circumstances...
Why would the current roles be any more artificial than historical roles?
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: The 7000 years or so that civilisation existed will obviously have made some changes in mankind, I'm not denying the importance of that period. But something as essential as the relation between the sexes is very deeply rooted. We cannot understand it by only looking at the last period.. We have to go back a long time.
As you wish.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: I'll let it go then.. Call it what you want, I quoted you on all counts. But if you did not mean any of it like you appear to me to have written it. Then I'll just have to accept that.
What one perceives from the written words of another, isn't necessarily what the other person intended. Happens all the time on discussion forums.
Anyway, we've all been both male and female, so the idea of feeling superior just doesn't apply here.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Let me rephrase my position... I think men and women evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, into a creature that is intrinsically pretty balanced.
Hundreds of thousands of years? When did Ra say the souls from the 13 planetary systems were deposited on this planet?
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Men and women are two halves of a circle, they fit each other perfectly.
Are you saying the ancient civilizations were more advanced than the one we're in now? How does that fit in with the Ra teachings?
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Then came an influence be it the paternalistic religions or whatever that caused us as a species to have completely inappropriate images about our genders. This resulted in what apparently is a male dominated society. In reality it wasn't the males dominating. It was these paternalistic ideas dominating, because most males fitted as poorly as most females.
I agree that men were victimized just as much as women were by paternalistic religions. I'm not so sure that was the only reason for the male dominated cultures emerging, though.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Then there was the sexual revolutions. Where women regained a large part of their lost identity.. Men regained a bit of theirs... But girls were the big winners...
For the most part, yes. The pendulum had been swinging one way for so long, it started swinging the other way. But in my opinion, there were some losses for women also. But that's a whole 'nother topic I'd rather not go into.
(02-29-2012, 05:13 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Without wanting to reject or reduce the bias that still exists for women. I have to note that many men have some difficulty in self image when it comes to their masculinity.
It works both ways!