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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, 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
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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2p9-G5GOW0
Episode 40: UTOKing with Fanny Norlin December 20, 2021Title: 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 is the episode on Podbean. Here is Fanny's page on Linked In.
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