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Women's Workshop - March 1996 [ 1996 Index | Previous | Next ] To:   The Ixtlan Mailing List Date:   March 1996 Workshop for Women UCLA, Los Angeles, March 1-3 1996 I want to make some posts on the women's workshop as soon as possible but after a brief conversation with a dear friend and mutual petty tyrant who happens to be a male, I think I need to clarify my understanding of an issue which the sorcerer's presented us with. The male principle and female principle. As far as sorcerer's are concerned the difference between male and female biologically is not that great except for the womb. On the other hand, the difference between males and females energetically is vast. Due to this difference we were presented with some of the differences in male behavior verses female behavior. They presented these (what my friend called generalizations) based on what they say is the male paradigm and it's subsequent behaviors. According to Carlos the socialization of the male is not that difficult for them because it is based on the male principle. For a women on the other hand, it is devastating because it contains virtually none of the female principle. It was also pointed out that sorcerer's could make these observations about the behaviors of male and females because they have divested themselves of this socialization and can see it for what it is. Males have certain invested behaviors which repeat themselves in various shades over and over and females have the theirs. These generalizations are to some degree the flyers installations which is why they are so homogenous. They stated over and over that these behaviors are part of the male paradigm which women have mimicked. So in our efforts to convey to you guys what was said at the workshop, it may sound as if they were making broad generalizations. It may even be feared that the sorcerer's have turned us into egomaniacal beasts and/or that we are going to try to control and dominate you men. We may be egomaniacal depending on our personal power, but it is not likely that anything the sorcerer's told us will be the cause of that. As far as wanting to dominated anyone. It is our intent as females to rid ourselves of being dominated, but to dominate others is not part of the female principle there is no need for it. So that fear would be based on what is part of the male principle. There are women who do those things but they are mimicking men. Because our socialization gives us only reminiscent inklings of the female principle, as women warriors, our effort is to recover our femaleness and if we are successful, to intend the evolution of our species. I am going to attempt to repeat to you some of the things I remember from the workshop, mostly the first night. As I did not take notes they will not be in sequential order and not verbatim quotes. Carlos Castenada spoke with us Friday night and told us he had to be very careful what he said because speaking with a group of women is very different than when there are males around (comrades). He pointed out that women are aware of everything whether they were conscious of it or not, because of their womb. Where as men are experts at taxonomy. He spoke about the deleterious effects of socialization on women and that men had no reason to want things to change because they had it made in this world. He said the male is generated from the female (and made jokes about how backwards the Adam and Eve concept is) and is very fragile. The male is, according to the Nagual a small filigree of energy. He said that the male principle is rare in this female universe and therefore gets much unearned attention. That is why the male ego is so huge and the gap between his ego and his action is so vast. He also indicated that since the male is generated from the female he contains nothing unique from her. He stated that the paradigm of this world is the male paradigm and through rigorous control from the flyers and the males (he did not say in collusion); the female paradigm is virtually non existent because we have had no model to align ourselves with. He said that the flyers knew that in order to dominate this species, they're attack would have to be on the female and that all would fall thereafter. The Nagual stated that the female had been socialized into apathy about her seeing and that this is not her natural state. For a female, silence is all that is required. He said that the female assemblage point is turned so that the shinny side is tilted inward and this enables her silence to be total. For a male whose assemblage point is tilted shinny side out, to completely shut off the outside noise is not fully possible. Therefore men spend their time doing taxonomy, and talk, talk, talk. Women on the other hand have a predilection for action. Women are geared toward Doing. Toward practical action. He said that men try to compensate for this (according to warriors this is a vast difference) by trying to make women BEHAVE! He said men come up with all sorts of ways to dominate women but most of them apply to themselves. They call women hysterical. But it is really they who are hysterical, and they have good reason to be. They are very fragile (Poor Babies, he laughs). They will do anything and say anything for female attention (which women are all to quick to give). He said that men think they are trying to find Daddy's (manhood) but what they are really doing is trying to find Mommy's. All of the warriors party told us over and over that nothing they are telling us is new to us, as women we already know everything they are saying to us but the issue is to bring to our conscious attention, what we are already aware of. This requires silence. The Nagual told us that women perceive deeply and that each of us is unique due to our wombs (it's kind of like our cosmic finger prints). For a man he must use to totality of his being to become aware and men are more homogenous in their perception. For the female her womb perceives directly so her knowing is direct. They all stated that they were not male bashing but that no female should allow a man to tell her what to do; he is not qualified to do it. They told us again that 80 to 90 percent of our energy (male or female) is tied up in the rituals around courtship and that this has to be disposed of in order to gain energy. Florinda made a point to tell us that it does not mean we need to be bland in our choice of clothing etc. Only to do what we do for the hell of it, as a gesture toward it. They told us many unusual things about ourselves energetically as females (particularly Taisha) but I can not convey those right now. Maybe someone else will choose to. Carol Tiggs told us a story about the Nagual and how he had come to a difficult time of morose desperation unable to figure out what to do. She said that a women of another lineage sent for him (and in a magic story I will not attempt in this forum) he found that he was not to guide of his party – that the guide in fact has to be from the womb. It was a great relief to him to finally discover this. [I guess that is why he jokes about just being the chauffeur.] Several times they directed our attention to the issue of our species which is on the brink of destruction. If this is going to change it must come from changing the focus of our attention on the womb (from sexual) to the fact that it is a direct link, as preceptors, for intending something entirely new. If man is to survive it will be necessary to evolve and necessary for men and women to work together in a whole new way. What is going on with this list is the same old male/female dichotomy. When I posted what we were told at the workshop I left out much of the depth (which is hell to verbalize) and flogged you like they flogged us with the this is what is going on and in order to change you have to realize what is happening here. All of us are in battle against self importance and we are also warriors. The idea in posting about the workshop here is to help you get an understanding of the Warrior's understanding regarding the male and female principle. Part of the understanding has to come from knowing that the world you see before you is the male paradigm, and it is designed to keep women submissive and disabled. It is not your fault. None of us were there when the agreements were made. But you can only assist in changing it if you begin to realize your role in perpetuating it. We are all warriors here! Comments about women regarding makeup, wanting to talk romance, and all the other traditional attributes are exactly what we have to realize are keeping women defined and disabled. The comments regarding males that the Nagual and the Witches made were not slander, they are accurate descriptions of the paradigm before us. The difference is, the descriptions of the Female paradigm are not accurate. Women are simply mimicking the male paradigm. In order for women to become consciously aware of what the female principle is, she is going to have to have time, she is going to have to be buffered to some degree from these onslaughts from the continual attempts to keep her subdued. If you intend to assist us stop the descriptions because you don't know us at all we hardly know ourselves. As things stand, males have all the advantages in this world and it is very difficult to want to change it. On the other hand, if you can see that to evolve is an advantage to all in the long run, change may become more valuable in your eyes. Women can guide themselves but your assistance could be invaluable as some of us have families to raise and time is short. It doesn't help for you to be reinforcing the socialization that has been put on us since the beginning of our lives. Withhold judgment! Taisha told us incredibly mysterious tales about ourselves. She wove her story and for the first time we were enlightened that women are the tube through which we slip into the world of the inorganic beings. As females, we are the very tube through which we move to enter that realm! This is astounding! The opening is part of us. Through this we can begin to measure just how cut off from our true natures we have become. Interestingly enough she related to us that flirting was one of the closest things we have to our real natures. Not as it has become, for the sake of courtship, but as a means of finesse and communication. The Nagual told us that the ultimate male conquest has been women calling other women bimbos. Women turning on each other and taking on the males derogatory languaging. [ 1996 Index | Previous | Next ]

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