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Dear People Whom God Loves,

Continuing with the masculine and feminine principles of Wilber.  He writes that these healthy masculine principles of autonomy, strength, independence, and freedom can become unhealthy.  He writes: “There is not just autonomy, but alienation; not just strength, but domination; not just independence, but morbid fear of relationship and commitment; not just a drive toward freedom, but a drive to destroy.  The unhealthy masculine principle does not transcend in freedom but dominates in fear.”

He then continues that the healthy feminine principle tending toward flowing, relationship, care, and compassion can become unhealthy.  “Instead of being in relationship, she becomes lost in relationship.  Instead of a healthy self in communion with others, she loses herself altogether and is dominated by the relationships she is in.  Not a connection but a fusion; not a flow state, but a panic state; not a communion but a meltdown.  The unhealthy feminine principle does not find fullness in connection, but chaos in fusion.”

Wilber then says that recognizing the healthy times is not to judge people (I would add not to judge ourselves) but to learn how to communicate with each other.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in spiritual growth and to anyone whose task is not to facilitate the spiritual growth of others.

The book again is Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber.  Published by Integral Books.

More next time.
Smile, God Loves You,
Father Clay


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