All,

Rachel - thanks for your reflections on this episode. It prompted me to
watch it...half of it anyways! Time, time, time!

Here are some random thoughts that came up as I listened to the discussion:

- "Life-death, life-death, return to the same" = not sure if I agree with
this frame, particularly in relation to women's menstrual cyles, as there
are major shifts that can occur here (i.e., pregnancies, menopause, and a
variety of "unnatural" disruptions). I think such shifts can alter a
woman's experience of her embodied cycle...sometimes temporarily and
sometimes forever.

- I like the note about how each gender fears one's dependence on the
other...though this is the very dynamic we are called to engage in. Reminds
me of what John Gottman, PhD, says about the defining feature of a healthy
marriage - growth.

- Female sexuality is linked to being able to stand in the void...would
love to hear more about this!

- Men should look to develop the more "receptive masculine" rather than the
more generally feminine.

- Indigenous season perspective is different from what was proposed here.
From my understanding, the Dakota / Lakota / Ojibwe view the seasons (in
relation to age) in the following manner: spring = baby, summer = youth,
autumn = adult, and winter = elder.

- Gregg, thanks for reminding me about Parental Investment Theory. Crucial
and interesting!

- Far out thought....I wonder if part of the transgender crisis regarding
women transitioning to men is representative of the negation of the
feminine / cyclical or the extreme fear / hate of it for X amount of
reasons (i.e., coping with sexaul abuse inflicted by males, the buying into
of the broad devauling of the feminine in various places, etc.).

Hope you all are ending this year well!

Warmly,

Ali



El mié, 22 dic 2021 a la(s) 14:03, Rachel Hayden (
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> Thank you Gregg, that was a really great discussion and I felt very
> liberated by the end!
>
> The discussion on grieving and femininity in particular brought up a few
> things for me:
>
>
>    - I remember reading about how Socrates shoo'd away his weeping wife
>    as he was about to be executed, because her grief was weakness. Also, how
>    he held a sense of hope for an afterlife because it comforted him. I would
>    never judge someone about to die for their comforting beliefs, but I
>    believe there was a far stronger power on display with the full-throated
>    grieving of his wife, looking directly at death without consoling hope.
>    Grieving as true and final love, a midwifing into the Void.
>    - In this essay,
>    <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__aeon.co_essays_the-2Duniversal-2Dforces-2Dof-2Dsound-2Dand-2Drhythm-2Denhance-2Dthought-2Dand-2Dfeeling&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=82KxFkY86b3CUxr7Ogss4-Luq57_v6iXr8_EVpcoLKo&s=hGf1N01ZcfpLTG7Tnyi-Gb-eaqqYS9tPbETSsjjhzzo&e=>
>    Christina Rawls writes about how, although Plato did not hold flute-girls
>    in high regard in his writing (as in the Symposium) because their music was
>    not up to his standards, at the moment of his death it was just those
>    comforting sounds that he requested.
>    - I also read about how many people cry for their mamas at the moment
>    of their death. At first I was horrified and a bit embarrassed to know
>    this. But now it seems sweet and true - in some way, to borrow from LeGuin,
>    we are "always coming home." Or like LeGuin's inspiration Lao Tzu said,
>    "Yielding is the movement of the Dao/Returning is the movement of the Dao.
>
>
> Best to all,
> R
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:50 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi TOK Folks,
>>
>> Here is this week’s UTOKing episode. If you have an interest in the
>> feminine in relation to the masculine, please check it out as I think we
>> get into some interesting stuff here.
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DU2p9-2DG5GOW0&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=R7W0K-X6WMTP4FoLLiljarTFlNceqn-Z_AXypEdcHMA&s=tYhclv0Us9EvwlTJPTH1VgYWv9Nhlp9zVDvFzHfO7vQ&e= 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DU2p9-2DG5GOW0&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=82KxFkY86b3CUxr7Ogss4-Luq57_v6iXr8_EVpcoLKo&s=UnyWjDM-Dqz1qmdQm69oi1_6WSXiJzsl760JyqlYQuY&e=>*
>>
>>
>> * Episode 40: UTOKing with Fanny Norlin December 20, 2021*
>>
>> *Title: Gracefully Syncing Feminine and Masculine Energies *
>>
>> In Episode 40, Gregg welcomes Fanny Norlin. She is a leading coach and
>> business consultant who specializes in feminine leadership, strategy,
>> grasping complexity, scaling ideas and systems thinking, and the
>> relationship between the feminine and masculine energies. This
>> conversation explores the Fanny's perspective, narrative, and history in
>> developing her evolving perspective on feminine leadership, and then lines
>> it up with UTOK's frame for understanding the Living, Mental and Cultural
>> dimensions, as well as the kind of healthy, productive dance that can
>> emerge between the masculine and feminine when they are positioned in right
>> relationship to each other.
>>
>> *Here
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_url-3Fq-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fwww.podbean.com-252Fmedia-252Fshare-252Fpb-2Dypaf5-2D115d621-26sa-3DD-26sntz-3D1-26usg-3DAFQjCNF9VtuSJmsx6vuq5tU25qa1SIsnEw&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=82KxFkY86b3CUxr7Ogss4-Luq57_v6iXr8_EVpcoLKo&s=pi9Riw3gIX66r5kxmrKzdIqUvJzOCrDjbZcrJjtPxf8&e=>*
>> is the episode on Podbean. *Here
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_url-3Fq-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fwww.linkedin.com-252Fin-252Ffannynorlin-252F-253ForiginalSubdomain-253Dse-26sa-3DD-26sntz-3D1-26usg-3DAFQjCNEkPNPVvTH8JPJ-2DaBSHQeiU-2DImX-5FA&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=82KxFkY86b3CUxr7Ogss4-Luq57_v6iXr8_EVpcoLKo&s=7O1fUyF7PPxrC_jOf-bmobOrWOv12ng282eBzGr98U4&e=>*
>> is Fanny's page on Linked In.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________________
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>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=82KxFkY86b3CUxr7Ogss4-Luq57_v6iXr8_EVpcoLKo&s=n4LI9b4VBRZSEDFlUf9t4NCoYkTeaddrA4tf4Vz8xXQ&e=>
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