From: desmond rice [mailto:desri...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:07 PM To: hho...@verizon.net Subject: RE: The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine
Great insight Owen. Having been raised as a Northern Catholic, I am very familiar with the Western suppression of The Feminine. I found that as I made and continue to make my journey of understanding of life, I was and am frequently the token male, or in a serious minority, at a variety of courses/ classes on yoga, Tai chi, Buddhism, Reiki, sound healing, life coaching etc, anywhere where one gets results by allowing energy to take it's course. For some reason females are much more open to any new knowledge, which might produce results and more workable lives, even when they cannot explain how or why it worked. Part of the explanation could be that in our society, anything that worked but could not be explained was likely to have been "The devils work", or some sort of black magic. Perhaps there are still relics of this in all western societies. But it does not explain why women should be more open to events/ happenings which seem to work because they use cosmic energy/rules or whatever? Maybe, in the eyes of western man, it is "ok for them" they can "fool around" with these things, because they dont have the "Serious things" to contend with in the boardroom, or would not be as likely to be ridiculed by their peers? Maybe they have less to loose in strange sort of way. It does cause me great concern that the male decision makers in business and politics are so closed to the admission that their understanding of life and their ability to force solutions may be flawed. Who knows better how to heal the cosmos than the cosmos? So why not let it through OS and other natural routes? I agree that The Da vinci Code was a riveting read, if historically inaccurate. If it helps to lead people to question dogma and certainty, and become more open to a less "certain" view of life, then it may serve a purpose. Desmond Rice, Belfast, N Ireland _____ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our <http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUK/2740??PS=47575> free newsletters! * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
