He, I love that metaphor so much. LJ, in that case, is just one big ongoing idea orgy.
Yeah, I agree with you on all this stuff. I like that you've likened expression and communication to sex, because I think that the two have a lot in common, in their effect on the body and the way they are often both repressed impulses in a territorial culture. What you said in your post about women becoming property in this sort of environment is totally true--it's like with repression of sex comes this whole competitive urge, and it's the same with communication. I see the communication thing in American politics to the extreme--the attitude that you only matter if you can shout the loudest, which is why how much money a party spends on a campaign has such an influence on the outcome.
I'm glad that you mentioned meditation and breathing, too, because I thought of that after I posted--the connection between spirituality and the physical body seems so obvious there, and yet, at least in this culture, it seems as if it's usually presented the opposite way--spirituality is an effort to transcend the physical, rather than embrace it beyond linear thought.
My new friend massromantic has just posted a really cool breath meditation (huna/hawaiian stuff, they looove breathwork), and someone yesterday saw my merkabah icon pointed me toward this (breathwork) meditation: http://www.crystalinks.com/merkaba.html
I like to think of the tao as breath, too, waxing/waning, systole/diastole, a time to reap a time to sow, etc etc the ole "going between the pairs of opposites." I know a lot of people are anti-duality right now, and I think it's the same as being allowed to live Oneness and Multiplicity at the same time: I think duality is there only as a gateway to pass between, or two lovers to alchemize. So I never saw duality as this polar opposing thing of black and white, no grey - to me it's all ABOUT grey, which is really not shades of grey but rainbows, I think.
Gee it's a pleasure word-dancing with you, we've gone all over the map of stars, here lol
Yeah, I agree with you on all this stuff. I like that you've likened expression and communication to sex, because I think that the two have a lot in common, in their effect on the body and the way they are often both repressed impulses in a territorial culture. What you said in your post about women becoming property in this sort of environment is totally true--it's like with repression of sex comes this whole competitive urge, and it's the same with communication. I see the communication thing in American politics to the extreme--the attitude that you only matter if you can shout the loudest, which is why how much money a party spends on a campaign has such an influence on the outcome.
I'm glad that you mentioned meditation and breathing, too, because I thought of that after I posted--the connection between spirituality and the physical body seems so obvious there, and yet, at least in this culture, it seems as if it's usually presented the opposite way--spirituality is an effort to transcend the physical, rather than embrace it beyond linear thought.
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I like to think of the tao as breath, too, waxing/waning, systole/diastole, a time to reap a time to sow, etc etc the ole "going between the pairs of opposites." I know a lot of people are anti-duality right now, and I think it's the same as being allowed to live Oneness and Multiplicity at the same time: I think duality is there only as a gateway to pass between, or two lovers to alchemize. So I never saw duality as this polar opposing thing of black and white, no grey - to me it's all ABOUT grey, which is really not shades of grey but rainbows, I think.
Gee it's a pleasure word-dancing with you, we've gone all over the map of stars, here lol
p.s. is this icon of yours from a faerie tale?
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