From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 11:52:59 BST
Greetings Dario,
Encouragement is music to my ears. I'm such a novice.
The Jungian way of looking at the male/female split is helpful. Men, as
well, as women are hurt by a lopsided perspective. In every man there
lives a distorted woman who has great gifts if she were allowed some growth
and freedom.
Some other thoughts I had on the Captain and Lila. It was Lila's choice to
leave. It was respectful to accept that. And it was gracious of her to
leave.
There is something about the ritual with Lila's child that is very mystical
and otherworldly. I wouldn't begin to know how to explain it, but it was
powerful.
Marsha
At 01:27 PM 8/21/2005 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha (and C.L. and...)
>
>Thanks. I really liked this thread/discussion.
>
>The major reaction I had after reading ZMM and Lila was one of immense joy.
>I always thought that there was something "different" and "wrong" in me as
>I couldn't see the rest of the world function along the same "principles"
>that seemed to have instinctively grown inside me.
>After reading the book I saw that someone out there had been able to put
>on paper what I could only perceive with my intuition.
>I was not alone.
>
>I agree with Marsha in noticing how the masculine / feminine split has
>been overlooked in the MoQ.
>
>As man, I've seen my "view" on women change from the biological impulses
>of my youth to a sort of envious resentment ("They" can give birth... and
>I can't !) and now to adoration.
>
>It was difficult to go past the hurdle created by the desire ( typically
>masculine ) to understand and therefore control the unbelievable source of
>energy and power that's "inside" a woman (i.e. all the Captain's questions
>and Lila's accusations of men destrying women ).
>I reached adoration when I realised that I was not supposed to control
>"it", but merely to allow it to be. I was able to relax and enjoy it
>without trying to fix it.
>
>I hope that, slowly, the human race will recover from this "equalitarian"
>balance where so many women are trying to be like men because the values
>of society dictate so by making "it" look better and in doing so they give
>up they own gifts.
>It's like we are all in the middle of a see-saw because otherwise it's
>difficult to balance it.
>We ended up in a crowded place and there's very little fun.
>
>I've found a bit disappointing that Phaedrus gave up on the challenge
>reprresented by Lila and that he passed on to Rigel.
>
>I suspect that at some point in the future, when men will finally reach
>the top of the mountain, we'll find women sitting there. It won't make the
>challenge less worthy, it just gives it perspective.
>
>Dario
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