“The Women’s Vision of Reality”

Adi Da Samraj: I really do want women to be free. Not just free to go downtown. Free to be strong, to represent something that is fundamentally absent in the world at the present time — which is the woman’s vision of reality. ©

Our relations with non-humans, the entire non-human world, the earth herself, must allow for the free moment to moment investigation of how we live, how we see ourselves and our place in the world, and how our societal limitations effect the world we live in.

Humans’ true understanding of non-human life, our pets and gardens, the animals we enslave, farm and harvest, the forests and wilderness areas, oceans and skies, requires an awareness and maturation of our culture — including religion, spirituality, the divine, family, birth, death, fear, work, responsibility, politics, play, leadership, cooperation and sexuality.

The powerful, sensitive, feminine presence in human society is greatly diminished in this time, by men and also by women. The modern reactionary feminist movement has increasingly masculinized our society as much as men themselves have. For human culture to live wisely we must include the functional, expressive, qualities of the woman. Without our embrace of the fully developed woman’s vision of reality the masculine vision will continue to dominate human culture, only furthering the imbalance now being suffered in the world. Until the balance is restored there will be no wholeness to who we are.

Non-humans of all kinds live in the body, as the body, and naturally assume the respective polarities of their sexual structures. Humans have become confused, drawing away from the body into mind and thought. We have become confused about sexuality. This makes us fearful and angry, and destructive of self and all others.

Adi Da Samraj (excerpted from “Love of the Two-Armed Form”, the Dawn Horse Press): Therefore, we must become aware of the living circumstance of the problem in our sexuality. It is not principally subjective. It is social. If you observe our social order, you can see that the sexes tend to be obliged to associate casually with one another from birth. This permissiveness is contrary to the ancient traditional way of life that pertained all over the world. Traditionally, the sexes were clearly differentiated and formally related, but in our modern technological society the sexes mingle casually, and the differentiation between the sexes is always tending to break down. In our own time there is a great social movement toward greater and greater equalization of the sexes. It is not only a movement to acquire the right of women to equal pay for equal work. What is ultimately being sought or otherwise created is depolarization, a quality of equal character and function in both men and women that undermines the naturally polarized play of human life. These social impulses that are at work are a reflection of the casual association of the sexes.

The casual mingling of the sexes is actually an anti-sexual social activity. It does not take into account, at the level of the social order or the social play, the natural distinction of the sexes. That distinction is not just physical, not just a matter of a portion of the anatomy. We are naturally polarized in our character. Each of us is by birth structurally disposed toward a certain genital function, but also toward a specifically differentiated character that reflects a specific psycho-physical polarity. ©

“The Other Side Of The Purr” describes something of the process implicit in humanity’s return to a more polarized, healthy and intelligent presence and play in the world, including our relations with the vastness of all non-human forms of life…