Part IV: Application

Part IV: Application of the TOA.

Chapters 7, 8  & 9

This section applies the key principles to various dimensions of life, including dispelling and correcting limiting beliefs in the fields of religion, politics, science and psychology.

The key principles are used to provide a deeper, more coherent and vibrant world-view, one that balances masculine and feminine, physical and spiritual, possible and actual.

The deeper impetuses towards differences in gender behaviour are covered in Chapter Nine.

Chapter Seven: Dispelling the myths

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

Key Concepts:

  1. The belief in “separateness” (i.e. that everything and everyone is separate, local and limited) is the root cause for the world’s ills. In an analogous sense, we are children, not yet having learned how to relate to others (other species, other races, “inanimate” objects and ourselves).
  2. The belief in “separateness” causes humanity to focus on loss, pain and limitation. It separates (denies and ignores) our potentials for an inner-spiritual awareness and creativity, causing unnecessary upset, turmoil and difficulty.
  3. This belief-system fuels competitive, combative behavior. It fuels the mechanistic scientific view that we are merely a lucky coincidence of molecules.
  4. The belief in “separateness” allows the development of the belief in spiritual perfection (reliant on a separation between 'here and now,' and some ideal 'other' state).
  5. Similarly, this philosophy leads to a belief in scientific certainty (reliant on perfection of knowledge and measurement) in which matter, energy, people, plants and planets can be fully understood by analysing the component parts (reductionism).
  6. The belief in “separateness” is due to humanity’s immaturity. In terms of human development, we are in late adolescence, nearing adulthood. For the last few hundred years (during the industrial era) we have overly focused on the “masculine” qualities of difference, technology, objectivity and individuality, much as many adolescent males do. Hence Western science’s dismissal of the “feminine” aspects such as cooperation, interconnectedness and the “spiritual.”

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A separate reality

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

One of the major reasons for dis-ease and the deep degree of anxiety, angst and violence in the world today is that we still abide by the idea that physical reality is strictly  particle-natured (finite, local, real and knowable). Recall that the perception of reality being strictly local allows one to believe that we are each distinctly and qualitatively “separate from” all else, be it other physical objects (such as people) or deeper nonlocal fields of potential.

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An imperfect ideal

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

In view of the ideas presented in this book, we might appreciate that we have been unduly fixated on our limited, local physical existence. But simply beginning to believe or recognize that reality is innately nonlocal will not, of itself, allow us to more freely examine the deeper aspects to our psyches.

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Circles in the sand

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

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Chapter Eight: The importance of Endividuality

[Extract  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

Key Concepts:

  1. Realizing the error and detrimental consequences of believing in “separateness” (inc. objective sciences, and religious perfection) is only half the challenge. We need to develop a new philosophical framework which is congruent with how reality functions.
  2. Who is more important: the individual or the community? Are they of equal importance?
  3. The importance of individual versus community well-being has been played out by a good deal of humanity (witness the rise and influence of “masculine” democratic and “feminine” communist societies). Given the millions who live within such societies, this consideration is of direct relevance and impact to many.
  4. We will not solve our individual and collective (social) problems until we each recognise the integrated, interconnecting nature of the reality we experience. This will then open the space to invite wise and strong politicians and leaders, to assist change towards a saner world environment.
  5. We need an expanded philosophical framework which forms a nurturing, tolerant “downward causality,” such that individuals are given greater scope to be expressive—to thus become coherent “parts” in a healthy, vibrant gestalt (cohesive community, society, nation, planet).

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A criminal denial

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

In an earlier section in this chapter it was suggested that to be at-one with others and the world around us requires that we be more ourselves. That we be more individual and that we need to honour our deepest desires and goals.

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A sick denial

As mentioned earlier, our unconscious potentials emerge into our ego-awareness in the form of deep-felt desire and passion. That energy is converted into useful results and form (the arts, sciences, humanities etc.) through the agency of action. When we deny that energy by foregoing the achievement of our dreams, we do harm to ourselves and the society as a whole. And of course, in line with the ideas presented in the section “Downward causation,” cultures which do not allow free expression of that potential (of converting dreams into reality) suffer the consequences.

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Chapter Nine: Men, women, waves and particles

[Extract  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

Key Concepts:

  1. Men (and males in general) lean towards the embodiment of the physical (objective, material) nature of 'separateness'—competitiveness, building and control (of) structure, order, status and hierarchy.
  2. Women (and females in general) lean towards the embodiment of the spiritual (subjective-wave) nature of 'togetherness'—cooperativeness, relationships and the development of non-hierarchical communities (herds).

    This leaning towards individual-particle or collective-wave behaviour provides the framework for understanding the differences and similarities of gender, irrespective of culture, time or circumstance. It provides the framework to understand why:

    • women tend to live longer
    • men tend more to engage risk, and the extremes in behaviour (murderers and musicians; adventurers and autistics)
    • women are better at interpersonal/communications skills
    • the origin of the dichotomy of perfect Madonna (and religious virgin birth) or damned whore
    • (Western) men are around nine times more likely to commit suicide after a relationship breakup
    • (Western) women were traditionally (and still are) perceived and expected to be more refined ("they don't fart"), gentler and less competitive than men.
    • women have been seen to be more intuitive and spontaneous (hence 'feminine mystique' and 'women's intuition')
    • the preponderance of males involved in wars, paedophilia, atheism and the sciences.

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Head and Heart

[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

With the assistance of the Table Of One and All (TOA), we can now begin to understand in deeper terms the ways in which gender roles have been allocated within our culture and why those roles are so rapidly changing.

The Table enables one to get a sense of where these changes are heading and what changes in generational beheviours we can expect in the future.

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