The YIN Mind – Our Innermost Functions

The Yin Mind looks at the innermost functions

of women, the essence of being female.

What has been written before,

has presented challenges, provocation, perhaps disturbance,

to the ideal meant to be

affirmed, asserted, expressed and advocated.

Now, here, the threshold has been crossed.
We enter the substance, the inner physiology,

the psychology of the female mind.

So often we read, in these pages,

about the appearance, the style the presentation

of the female form as a canvas

upon which various art forms are applied.

Often, that art is not deeply sincere,

letting the exterior reveals

the interior,

but instead, conceals, covers,

disguises what is deeply within.

The female form is adorned

in such a way as to make of it

a highly dependent, somewhat fragile,

meek and weak,

submissive and dominated

portion of the social pattern.

We foolishly seek equality.

We look at having women

behave as men.

That isn’t equality !

We seek equal pay schemes.
But, we don’t seek to change the pattern.

Pay is based upon:

owning our abilities, our health, our strength,

our skills, our energy our knowledge,

and conditionally exchanging these

for our needs.

Cooperating, communicating, combining efforts,

gentle efforts, kind efforts, compassionate efforts,

are too often unrespected, taken for granted,

undervalued and even ignored.

Women are granted roles:

administrative assistant, secretary,

circumspect and controllable roles.

We don’t want to seek equality

and allow the apttern to continue

that seeks and needs forceful domination

and ruthless choices.
If we persist in that,

there is nothing to celebrate.

I sat in an audience

listening to a famous scientist

say that we need specialization

because of the high rate of discovery

of new information.

He said, that we have no alternative

to specialization.

Human knowledge was doubling

every ten years.
What? How?

did he mean the amount of data,

the number of facts?

What about the systemic relationship

between those facts?

I asked, “Upon what subject are you especially competent?”.

The answer was physics.

“Upon what subject are you making a recommendation?”

Human capacity !

Haven’t we mistaken the number of facts

for the vastness of human knowledge

and neglected the systemic relationships

between those facts?

“Either one can appropriately

make recommendations upon human capacity

while being a specialist,

or what you are doing

violates your own recommendations:

Which is it?”

The yang mind compartmentalizes,

uses an abundance of categorical boundaries

to separate and to insulate

some information, some inferences,

some implications from influencing others.

One neuroscientist characterizes the male mind

as being constituted of many little boxes,

boxes that don’t touch.

Perhaps, that is only a cultural artifact

of a pursuit of control and domination

and a fiercely defended pattern.

There is fear of the content of one’s experience

if control and domination weren’t enforced.

So, some choose the game,

make the rules,

change the rules,

when they don’t remain to their advantage

and are surprised

everyone doesn’t want to play.

@ Eve Revere, A Celebration of Women TM.