Sexual Differentiation

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]