The Meeting of Masculinity and Femininity
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A brief history of
gender roles and role definitions
From the Indian mythology to Greek
gods to Carl Jung and the roots of psychology
Every age and every culture has its heroes and role models: The gods,
the rulers, the pop stars or influencers. And our idols serve for many as role models in defining what it means to be a man or to be a woman.
But role models are often stereotypes and they
inspire imitation and are therefore always a distraction from our authentic and individual sense of our own inner qualities. For this reason, this course does not include any new
guidance or definitions of gender roles. Its up to us to find our for ourselves.
This course is an invitation to go beyond
stereotypes and preconceptions and to get to know these incredibly fascinating, multi-layered and magnetic polarities in our psyche in a completely new and open-minded
way.
1. Herkules and Aphrodite
Herkules Aphrodite
2. Carl Jung: "A Human Being is Masculine AND Feminine, not only Man OR Woman"
"You seek the feminine in women and the masculine in men. And so there are
always only men and women. But where is the human being!?
You, man, should not look for the feminine in the women, but in yourself,
search and recognize, because you have this from the beginning. It pleases you, however, to play the masculine, because you drive with it on a trodden track.
You, woman, should not look for the masculine in the man, but accept it in yourself, since you carry the
masculine in you from the beginning. But it pleases you and it is easy to play the feminine. And when a man despises you, he despises you because he despises his own
femininity.
But the human being is masculine AND feminine,
not only man OR woman. You can not really tell from your soul to which gender it belongs. But if you look carefully, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul,
and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul."
~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, 1920
3. The Tale of Ardhnarishwar
The union of the feminine and masculine principles
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SHIVA & SHAKTI
ARDHNARISHWAR
Ardhanarishvara represents the
synthesis of
the masculine and feminine
energies of the universe
The Story of Ardhanarishar - Avatar of Lord Shiva
After Lord Brahma created the world, he found that there was no further evolution in his world.
Everything remained exactly as he had created it. Animals, birds, people and plants, did not evolve. No children were born! The problem was that Brahma had created only male
beings! The world he had formed in his image was dull and barren.
When Brahma Ji saw this, he became very angry and he asked Lord Shiva for advice. Shiva
suggested the creation of Maithuni. To explain the meaning of Maithuni, Lord Shiva revealed himself in the form of Ardhanarishvara: one half of Shiva had a feminine form and the
other half had a masculine form.
Brahma asked the feminine half of Lord Shiva to create female plants, animals and humans so
that his creation, 'the world' could continue to grow. This was the moment at the beginning of creation when the male and female were separated.
What does Ardhanarishvara
represent?
Ardhanarishwara represents the perfect union of the complementary opposites that form the world
and life in it: Femininity and Masculinity, Earth and Sky, Darkness and Light, Moon and Sun.
Ardhanarishvara shows the inseparability of the two principles by representing both united in
one body. The union of masculine and feminine energies is the power of creation and what life is based on.
What does the legend of Ardhanarishvara convey?
1. Every human being has both masculine and feminine
parts.
2. Our creativity has its origin in the field of tension between
these complementary opposites.
3. The two sides of our nature have been separated and we long,
consciously or unconsciously, to reunite these essential aspects of our soul.
„When
your inner woman can help your inner man (and vice versa) , then this is the true union, the "mystical marriage". Then you start to become integrated, then your light is no longer
shallow, it has the depth of darkness. And your darkness is no longer dark, it has the light of lightness. Then anima and animus merge into each other. And when they merge
completely, then the world dissolves, then you are one again."
Osho
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