Billions of
years ago in the primeval ooze, we developed our sexual orientation.
Monocels
who dwelt in the deeps of the ooze were subject only to the influence of the
moon.
Monocels closer
to shore became aware of, and reacted to, the forces of tide and wind. One can
imagine that in order to avoid getting stranded, coupled with the search for
ingestibles, they quickened, their shape changed and they gradually developed
tails.
In times of storm, these two variants may have become co-mingled, the
one eating the other. The shoreline dwellers may have become eager scavengers
of dwellers of the deep. Likewise, the strongest of the deeper dwellers may
have efficiently repelled the shore beings or become efficient sperm-eaters.
What is certain
is that at some time in our evolution, there has been a differentiation of the
sexes. If there is an intelligence operating in the universe — and I believe
there is — that intelligence housed in the protocel prior to differentiation
had primitive qualities of initiative, intellect, sentience and physical body. All
four qualities still exist today in every human being, to a lesser or greater
degree.
Subsequent to
sexual specialisation, what can we define as being male and female
characteristics? It may be said that the male type is stressed in the intellect
and initiative, but it doesn't mean that he has no sensitivity at all, nor does
it mean that he hasn't a gross material body. The female may have greater
feeling sensitivity, and be more focused in the physical body (necessarily so
for bearing children), but this doesn't this mean that she has neither
intellectual capacity nor initiative.
The qualities
that a human being stresses, serve to indicate its preferred male/female mode.
What of the war
of the sexes? At one time the matriarch was the ruler. Man gazed in wonder at
this goddess, this magical being from whom sprang forth new life. Having
copulated so long ago, it didn't occur to man that it was anything to do with
him. Her rulership was absolute. Man was a tool for her purpose.
During the time
of the revolt, fearsome female warriors, in order to pull their bowstrings
effectively, had cut off the 'ma zone' on that side of the body. The ancient
Greeks called this race of women A-mazons. Something had twigged. The
non-rational, arbitrary rule of woman had become unbearable. The Greeks also
had epithets to describe these fierce Amazon warriors, conveying the sense
"men slayers" and "men loathers", to effectively convey the
disdain with which they viewed men.
Men, in the
logical spirit of cooperation overthrew the arbitrary rulership of woman, and
overturned the hierarchy of sexual relationship.
The intimacy of
deep relationships involves fear of a possible loss of certain patterns
developed over one's lifetime. Deep wills and emotional attitudes may be
overturned. Fear derives from identification with these patterns, and their
loss may be viewed as loss of self.
There is a male
in every female and a female in every male. The female form that a man chases
is in reality only his internal female which he hides from himself. Similarly
with every male that a female looks out for.
Biblically,
rather than in the primal ooze, this differentiation has placed Adam in a
garden. E-den means beyond-judgement. It is only subsequent to differentiation
that we begin to develop our judgemental capacity.
When a couple become aware of this conspiracy to stay silent about their differing functions in the relationship, each honouring the other's function, then it becomes the developing relationship of yin and yang, yogi and yogini, ever growing, ever increasing in awareness, never static, ever developing.
As part of that relationship:
"Women have a
remarkable capacity for forgetting every rational expression
as soon as heard. Here is the basis of the freeing of the next generation from
the rational formulations of the previous generation. Without this provision mankind
would have been totally blocked by the formulations of the totality of male ancestors,
and so be incapacitated for intelligent evolutionary emergents."
[Eugene Halliday, Pot Corpse IV]
