Preface
At the very start, I accept with loads of goodwill and sincerity that any word, however well meant and well spelt, is always a possible suspect of ‘misrepresentation’. Even the most compassionate and innocently affectionate words happen to be instinctive and presupposed culprit of possible negativity that they may carry to the receiver. The inherent trouble is; consciousness has no words and no compassionate connection with linguistic excellence of communication. When it comes to expressing and conveying the intent of heart with the help of words and language, the artistry and brilliance of literary abilities do not hold much utility. Unfortunately, more intelligent we become, greater is the probability of our communication and expression becoming more dualistic and hence exposed to becoming more confusing and conflicting for easy reception and understanding. That is why when I am writing this all for you; I wish to tell you very humbly that in my part, I am not even thinking of being intelligent. Rather, I muster up all innocence and simplicity of my evolved consciousness to share with you an idea, which I genuinely feel need to be expressed and shared. I surely cannot decide the utility of these words, as it is your discretion. However, one thing I am very sure of. My expression in this book is meant for empowering the consciousness of all readers, especially women readers, for their life-living wellness and personal excellence.
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FEMINISM: In The New Millennium
CONFUSION SEEMS THE primary probable reality of 21st century. Conflict and struggle are her legal offspring. This is one thing, which seems to define most of us across the globe. It is only natural that women of the world in general too seem confused about lot many things, as new dimensions add up in the changing milieus. However, even amid this confusion, a hope is growing in the womb of time. And the hope is the millions of women all over the world, who are in incessant struggle to make a beginning of a better world-order. Another millions are already up there, shaping up the structures for the inevitable!
The good thing is that majority of women are struggling and waging a lonely and quiet battle to change things in their respective spaces and make the place suitable to their ways of sensibilities and sensitivities. One can see it very clearly, even in societal spheres. However, there is confusion that takes away the fizz and zeal out of any good thing in life. So it is with the new emerging brand of feminism.
Most women think of feminism as an agenda. Females do not have to think in terms of agenda. All they have to do is to be a woman they are. Women have evolved in the long history of humanity as an alternative mode of life view. Feminism is not born out of what women decide to achieve while competing for an equal space in the man’s world or what the contemporary world-order perpetuated singe long desiderates. It is in fact a simple manifestation of a woman’s own alternative view on all things in life. Feminism is all about the very essence of the female portion of the nature… and it is a natural winner.
The good thing about the golden future of feminism seems to be the fact that there is more feminism in all good men of substance, which they refuse to accept and there are shades of men in all females, which they do not know how to handle. All good men are ‘mothers at heart’ and thanks to changes in the social milieu, we have more good men around. What better news can be for feminism! It is great news that the pristine symbiosis, homeostasis and complementarity between male-female elements are falling back to its rightful place and utility.
Our women have to rise up, grow, empower themselves, but never forget that their strength and individuality is in being the women they are. They do not have to be like men and compete against men to get their rightful place in the so-called men’s world. Most that glitters in men’s world is certainly not gold. And who knows it better than a woman! The men’s worldview has not done a lot good to the humanity and feminism stands out as the alternative model.
If feminism becomes a competitive idea, it will only add up to the stupidity, which the men’s world has built up so dexterously and magnificently. There is definitely no need for that. The power of feminism is in being different and an alternative to the men’s ways. And this difference must traverse the path of tolerance, positive assertions and persuasiveness; never the reactiveness. The action-reaction chain of enterprise has the stamp of the male-order. Female-order stands distinct in keeping away from this prudence of reactive intelligence. The feminism energy is all about reception, assimilation and holism. This alternative wisdom of feminism must be guarded against the stupidity of action-reaction causality and utility.
In the past, many good initiations and even revolutions fizzled out or degenerated because of this reactive energy leading the change. Reactive energies mostly help in starting a revolution but when a change takes the seed, it has to be nurtured by non-reactive and receptive energies. Feminism needs to guard against this tendency and innate inclination of reactiveness. The change has already been rooted. The reactive energy against the old male order of chauvinism has already won the battle of utility and sanity. We are past the reactive feminism-phase of sixties to nineties. We are into a new millennium. Now, the neo-feminism needs to build up the alternative global culture with a receptive mind consciousness. You need reactive energies only for ‘deconstructing’, as this energy is not the right choice for ‘constructing’. With so much success, feminism has deconstructed the old male world-order and now is the time to construct an alternative world-order based on positivity of feminist perspectives. You need a bulldozer to raze down an old house. However, when it comes to constructing a new house in the reclaimed land, this destruction-machine is of no use. We shall need different tools and attitude for construction. The attitude and mindset of deconstruction is a big loser when the phase of construction starts. This new millennium is the construction phase of feminism.
NEO-FEMINISM: Confusion Of Agenda
The foremost need however is to understand the confusion about the agenda of contemporary feminism. Most women globally perceive feminism as something big and complex and that is why they fail to accept that it is as simple and direct as being a true woman. Feminism is in being than in doing… goodness is in being, not doing. Every woman of substance needs to understand that the innate element of feminism is first a mind consciousness, which engenders because of the very mechanism of a woman and all entities female in the world. Feminism must not be accepted as a physical and tangible agenda as this shall make feminism a reactionary possibility. We shall explain why we say this.
The women of the new contemporary modern milieu, used to accepting the male worldview of actionable accomplishments, are reluctant to accept that feminism is achieved just by doing nothing but being what they are. The women of substance; in whatever position and situation they are; need to clearly understand their priorities. It needs to be accepted that money is not served on the dining table and bread and cheese are not kept in the jewelry box. The women of substance need to have the poise of the receptive mind consciousness to ascertain the rightful place to her priorities. Reactive energies are never the end; they are just the initial tool for effecting the commencement of a change. Means cannot and should not be the ends. Once a change is seeded, it needs the soil of receptive mind consciousness and sunshine of poised priorities to germinate the seed and grow it as a beautiful tree. It is time for the feminism-tree to grow big and tall.
The reactionary practicalities do not fix the priorities of a woman of substance, who understands the true nature and utility of the intangibility of the idea of feminism. The womanhood is like a rose; the beauty and fragrance is spontaneous and ubiquitous. A woman has feminism naturally unstructured. She does not have to flaunt or struggle to keep it upfront in a reactionary zeal of confused revolutionary.
It is of course not easy. Our women too have been brought up in the contemporary popular culture, whose pop benchmarks of utility and self-worth are all engendered and perpetuated by the old male order. This pop culture is deep within the subconscious mind of our modern contemporary women of substance. They need to rise above this degenerated culture. The populist cultural position is – “women are tough to understand”… it is a clichéd to say, “women thy name is mystery”. The fact remains – all good things are very simple, yet muffled in a complex and complicated mist of mysticism. This too has its roots in the pop culture.
You name it – love, compassion, affection, grace, beauty et al… and above all woman… they all are simple yet mystically intricate. If one understands the mechanism, one would surely get to the ‘simplicity’ and avoid intricacy. The fact however remains – women are equally mesmerized and baffled by their own mysticism, as are men. The pop culture is so deeply embedded in the subconscious mind consciousness of we all. We need to unlearn them, especially our women.
The answer of this mysticism is in evolution. The feminity has been at the center of evolution-energy. The feminity is the ‘natural-system, within which all energies operate and which has evolved successfully to handle the energies of evolution. And that is why, like all systems, most women tend to be complex but not actually.
Remember, females have been the tool, the system, which was entrusted with the complex task of ‘natural selection’. The primeval energy of ‘sexual selection’ was ingrained in the feminine-system. Since billions of years, nature has entrusted females with the task of discerning and putting to successful utility, all high-value intangible ideals of humanity. The females still have to do the complex task of ‘selection’, discerning the right values in a man and validating them for society and embedded culture.
Naturally, most females would look conflicted, confused and complex. It is, as they are the one handling the complex task. Even women do not understand this and land themselves in unnecessary ‘troubles’. In the contemporary world, where women have now redeemed themselves and have become more empowered; all doors are open for a successful feminization-system model to take over the prevailing order. Which doors the neo-feminine system opens and which it shuts is now an informed and voluntary choice. It is for sure, the universe has always believed in the ultimate righteousness of feminization energy and it shall always. The universe has been patient since 14 billion years… we all have to be …. we are…!
Transitional tumults and occasional oscillations have never and can never detour our faith in the ultimate righteousness of feminine energy. If we look around the trend of the feminism in the last 50 years, it seems, the early energy of reactionary priorities have started to settle in and paving way to far more receptive choices. Still, at times and in many domains, women still root for reactiveness, which they need to be wary of.
In all societies, women and their consciousnesses are conditioned by popular cultures and action-thought-behavior paradigms, which are almost all against and in contradiction with instinctive and innate nature of women. That is why; women all over the world seem conflicted and confused. Even their so-called cathartic feminism at times seems an utterly inconsistent philosophy. We all need to find out – THE TRUE AND NATURAL WOMAN. The women of substance especially need to be in a non-reactionary mind consciousness to see and accept what their true nature and innate body-mind positioning and situationalism are.
The big question is – do women really know themselves sans their archetypal cultural identities? If modern contemporary women of substance truly wish to unravel the mystery of true feminism, they need to have their innocence and brilliance of receptivity upfront. Nature created feminine identity as the ultimate metaphor of the benchmarks of idealism for all living beings to accept and yearn for. However, it has to be accepted that over thousands of years of evolution, the cultural identities loaded over the true nature of womanhood have ruled the choices and priorities of women more than anything. These cultural stereotypes need to be unlearned.
For the contemporary woman of substance, it is important that she understands that traditional socio-cultural identities and benchmarks created as idealism of womanhood may not have everything wrong and modern ones may not have everything right and acceptable. The reason to be judicious and discerning for the modern woman is the fact that most benchmarks of righteousness for genders – in past or present have predominant shade of populist utilities. These populist ideas of utilities and righteousness were created and accepted on the basis of perceived notions about the nature and consciousness of genders. There are populist imageries of how and what a woman is like. The stereotypes like “women are from Venus and men are from Mars” or “Men want sex and women want intimacy”, etc are cultural notions, not to be accepted by a rationalist mind. There are loads of cultural stupidities associated with gender imaging. We all need to come out of that.
The contemporary feminism benchmarks should never come from the benchmarks generated by the old and populist cultural benchmarks of womanhood. A modern woman of substance must first care to know what essentially her true consciousness is; bereft of the cultural identities. It is important and she must know why. The idea of understanding one’s true self is not easy as the process of understanding one’s ‘self’ is pitted against one’s own beliefs about one’s ‘self’. It is not an easy task to determine which of these beliefs are objectively true and which purely populist cultural ideas based on presumptuous hypothesis.
The mechanism of our own mind consciousness is designed in such a way that it excels in reacting to things in its ambient milieus. We are essentially a reactive genius. That is why it is only natural for a modern woman of substance to be reactive to whatever new happens in the socio-cultural domain. However, she needs to guard against this tendency and she must know why. We all react as it is our first instinct but we are no more purely instinctive beings. We have long evolved out of this stage of instinctive being, like most other complex organisms. We live in societies with cultures, which define our choices. The consciousness is bound to be wavering between what is our ‘nature’ (instinctive self) and what comes to us as ‘nurture’ (cultured consciousness), in the form of milieus.
The dualism, which the idea of consciousness creates is – ‘You’ are in your perspective and your perspective is in ‘you’. Science maintains that the conscious feeling that we all have is primarily because we have an evolved and matured process of storing experiences as memories, with a definitive sense of we as our bodies present in all such memories. These memories in which the subject is definitively our own body, creates a sense of self-awareness in our brains. This we refer to as knowledge. This needs to be understood very carefully. Knowledge is not information, our sensory organs collect and pass on to our brains for processing. Knowledge is the ‘processed’ info as physical imagery in brains, which goes through the filters of mind’s memories of experiences, instinctive inclinations as well as those collective experiences, passed onto us from our ambient culture.
We have evolved and complex mind mechanism, the functional part of consciousness. It dominates the processing of information, filtering it through personalized and subjective memories of experiences of past actions and those experiences gathered from popular experiences of the milieus, called contemporary culture. The actions, deliberated after such filtering are ‘specific’ and creates a ‘specific subject’.
The dualism of consciousness creates loads of troubles for average people. It is because of the mechanism we have and the way our brain and mind consciousness has evolved. However, knowing and understanding this dualism in detail makes us clearly understand that what we predominantly are; is a function of our perspectives and attitudes and in turn, our attitudes and perspectives are what we are.
The modern woman of substance must understand and accept the dualism of her consciousness. There is a ‘self’ in her, a ‘conscious she’, which is in lineage of long history of cultured notions and benchmarks about her true being and choices. These need to be unlearned. However, what contemporary feminism accepts as new and changed benchmark of utility and choices must come from the understanding of the objective facts about the true consciousness of a woman.
We are in an age of objectivity and sanity, based on singular scientific facts about body and mind. We have enough new wisdom to know what and why we are how we are. It is time modern contemporary women stop accepting ideas about “what and why they are how they are” based on hearsay, conjectures, imagination, populist conspiracy and convenience etc. She has the wisdom to know and accept her consciousness in perfect scientific terms of objective singularity. No one should tell her who she is and why she is what she is. Especially, no culture has this business to tell her. There is this objective and singular wisdom of science, which is up there to decipher and unravel the true nature and consciousness of woman. And, all new benchmarks of her choices, priorities and utilities must come from this singular objectivity.
The contemporary woman of substance must understand and accept that the dualism in her consciousness is nothing exclusive to her. It is the consciousness of we all that has it. It is because of the mechanism we have. She must understand all decisions and choices about her life-living wellness and personal excellence must come from her empowered consciousness. She must take into account the following three facts:
FEMINISM: Pristine Cosmic Energy Of Construction
The contemporary socio-cultural sphere is very complex and full of conflicts. The challenge for a modern woman of substance to have her poise and exude righteous benchmarks of wellness for society and culture is tough. She must understand and accept why she is the dominant gender and why cultures always take on what she chooses and decides. Cultures always take the hint of utility and righteousness from what the female gender of all species accepts as. It is the way evolution works. Feminity energies the process of evolution.
The single transcendental fact is, feminization is the primeval energy and at work since the inception of the universe. Whatever creation process we look at, the guiding energy is feminine. Understand the core energy of human cultural evolution as well as the instinctive and conscious process of this evolution; it would be clear that the primeval energy of evolution process is feminization and it has been very good and productive.
The facts supporting the Feminization energy are:
In the early hominid, it was necessary to form cooperative groups (herds, tribes) wherein the roles of the males and females were quite different. When roles are different between two organisms such as the male and female of a species, even though they may share the same reproductive process, evolution develops form in each to fit those cultural differences. Dimorphism (male larger than the female in the human) was one of the results.
Physical differences in form and shape between the sexes were not the only differences. Neural differences were also developed and they still exist. As a result of the male having a different role from that of the female, there were both physical and mental differences between the two. Although both experience the same environment, and they share large overlapping regions of agreement, they think differently about it and provide different solutions to the same problems. The cooperative combination of the two then provides optimum species survival.
It has to be reiterated here that evolution created gender differences for better utility of species survival and excellence. It is the human culture, which classified them inferior and superior. These need to be unlearnt by both females as well as males in modern world. Moreover, it also needs to be accepted that gender role differentiations are not static. Modern contemporary cultures need to redefine the gender roles, as per the new requirement. Here, it must be cautioned that there should never be the idea of superiority in accepting role differentiations. Male-female cooperation is a requirement for species survival and excellence and therefore, all roles by either male or female are of equal importance. They need to be respected.
The fact remains that with ‘power’ comes ‘responsibility’. The energy, if value-neutral, develops the potential of entropy and disorder. Creation is an immense power; creation can be both good and bad. Power can be good as well as bad. Authorization and empowerment needs very strong structure and process of responsibilities. The superiority is not only in authorization, it is in a judicious mix of power and responsibilities. Modern contemporary women of substance need to be in a holistic and receptive mind consciousness to accept that feminine-energy is the dominant and creative energy of the cosmos. This energy cannot shun responsibility of the role, which is so powerful and constructive.
It is important to understand and accept that in human life, it is the intangible element, of milieus as well as consciousness, which are decisive. Our mind consciousness is designed in such a way that even tangible entities are accepted by mind consciousness and registered by brain mechanism in intangible perspectives. Women have a distinct mechanism from what males have. The mind consciousness of women accepts more intangibles to its male counterpart. Female brain is distinct from male brain. The hormonal system of females is also different. Modern women of substance must accept that their mind consciousness is designed to be a better receptor of intangibles of milieus around. Women shall always have a completely distinct and unique sense and perspective of life-living wellness and personal excellence, as their mind consciousness shall always value the intangibles of life, more than the tangibles. Nature has designed this distinction and it has larger utility for the survival and excellence of human species. Women of substance shall always accept and respect this brilliance and utility of the body-mind-neural difference. In reactive and competing mood and mode, the modern women of substance shall never favor a choice and priority, which goes against her personal wellness and natural excellence. She is nature’s chosen energy of responsible construction and nurturance. The evolution has chosen her as the dominant element of cosmic construction. In her reactiveness and competing zeal, modern women of substance cannot accept those priorities, which work against her innate mind consciousness and instinctive wellness and excellence. She is the prime, pristine and predominant energy of all good things in the cosmos for the last billions of years. She is the pristine and primary beauty of cosmic construction. She is the ultimate hope for future and excellence of the human species on earth. On her judicious priorities depend the survival of the human race on earth. It is for sure, the universe has always believed in the ultimate righteousness of feminization energy and it shall always. The universe has been patient since 14 billion years… we all have to be …. we are…!
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Understanding Mysticism Of Womanhood
One of the top scientists of our time has given billions of men a reason to smile and be proud of what they always thought was the ‘right’ state of reality. Stephen Hawkins said sometime back he believed women as ‘complete mystery’ and his mind; which did a glorious lot in unraveling the mysteries of universe; was preoccupied by this mystery called women.
Men all ages and across geographical boundaries have believed this since ages and they have since long almost made their women also somehow accept that being ‘mysterious’ is very nearly a much-required feminine trait. Naturally, the neo-feminist movement looks so hell-bent to pull this tag off in as many ways as the cultural environments of their places allow them to.
If things are seen from mind perspective, mystery is in the mind of the person who believes something as mysterious as mystery is only till mind accepts it otherwise, which was always there even when the person accepted it as mysterious. Like, a man who has not seen a murder happening shall always accept ‘the murderer’ as a mystery but another person who was a witness to the murder shall never say so. Even when someone did not see the murderer, the murderer shall always remain a reality, because, murder is a reality for all. Mystery is on the side of those minds who do not know yet.
The point is, mystery is not on the side of women, they are what they are as something very real and anything but mysterious but men shall always call women ‘mysterious’ as if they still don’t know them but would someday, like the mysteries of cosmos!
Almost all credit of making women mysterious goes to men. Almost all societal, cultural and behavioral benchmarks for women were made by them. Since long, art, literature, sculpture and even scientific research have been all man-initiatives. What men created for women to follow had their natural hypocrisies and internal confusion about what they wanted from ‘their’ own women and ‘other’ women. This naturally had to reflect on women’s behavior as they accepted and behaved the way the dominant men-folk prescribed and commanded.
This issue is so vast and complicated to understand but find a reflection of this hypocrisy and conflict in men which made women ‘mysterious’ by the following example. Men wished ‘their’ women to be within confines of homes and live in veils. They imposed all possible etiquettes on them to keep away from freely mingling with men in society and even in family.
The men then themselves wrote loads and loads of poetry and verses complaining, lovingly or otherwise, about the ‘indifference, coyness and flinching loyalty’ of the women. The center of their energy was ‘other’ women. The father and husband wanted their women to be what men as lovers, pursuers and otherwise grumbled about. The women of those times had to adjust their stifled consciousness between the two conflicting benchmarks.
It was only natural that this dualism made women never a linear personality but a zigzag one. The men would naturally be confounded and they ended up covering their disgust and frustration by calling women ‘mysterious’.
Scientists now admit; all men start as ‘female’ brain as they are born but since ages, a woman’s brain has been vastly conditioned by what the ‘male’ brain wished. So, if women minds are ‘mysterious’ it is only because since ages, male minds have made them a ‘free for all laboratory’ of their own hypocrisies, conflicts and cunning inventiveness for personal gains.
Look at the history of mankind. All male adventures and misadventures have invariably resulted in adding a hell lot of confli