Originally posted by Wave@Oct 24 2005, 02:13 PM
Hey Skinny Ginuea.....just checked out your entries. Very nice and Jungian stuff is always rather heady, or cocky, depending on your perspective. I think i read the first book you mentioned, several years ago, or one much like it.
Of course the penis/phallus has totemic power...that's why it's been immortalized in so many cultures in so many mediums of art (have you ever seen the sculpture of Phallus measuring his unit with a weighting scale...i think from Mesopatamia?)and it's why even in the spiritual vacuum that is Amerika guys still are totally fascinated/freaked about penises and penis size, etc.
Question is, if you feel "lost" cuz you did not have a dad and thus did not have that masculine (is it 'anima' or 'animus'
force inculcated upon you to endow you with enough male 'energy' (these are all 'symbols' we're using here people), how do you go about getting it.
pursuing Phallic power through big cocks and gay experiences won't do it. I have found that YHWH has helped me quite a bit--tetragrammatonic reference there. And His kid--JC. it is tough, though, to sort it all out and to know what parts of it are spiritual and what parts are just lust and emotions working their way around your mind and heart and libido.
seek on! :yourock:
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I think for men it is the "animus." I think that, actually, this pursuit of masculine energy and the maintaining of that masculine energy is actually a lifelong issue. To my understanding, this is because men are not born of their own identity. Women give birth to women. Women come from female bodies. Women
are their own identity, and they give birth to their own identity.
Men do not give birth to men. The man is born of a female body, and I think this presents us with a lifelong struggle to establish ourselves as male and to remain feeling male. I think that, actually, the pursuit of a man's life is to feel he has been "born of" the male identity. Actually, to be honest, I think that at some level this is what "Born Again" Christians are talking about -- they were born to a woman, and then they are "born again" of Christ (a male). Of course, they don't see it in these terms, but I think this is the underlying logic.
Anyway, to wrap that up a bit: yes, I have always felt a great lacking of male energy in my life and I have always longed to be more in touch with my own male energy. But I think this is what all men long for. I think this is actually the basis of sports, of fraternities, of gangs, and even of religions themselves.
My theory is that all religions are basically founded on men's needs to feel in touch with their male energy -- the three major religions of the Western World worship a male God and emphasize the man's need to be close to that God. And that God is referred to as a "Father." By feeling close to that "Father," men feel close to their source -- a
male source. And then take into account that much of the world has been ruled based on religion, and you realize that most of the world has been ruled by men's desire to feel in touch with their masculine energy.
This is why I said earlier that this is all a religious and spiritual issue as well. The penis is ultimately a spiritual symbol, because it represents the male energy and it represents the shared male experience. It's something all men experience. Each penis is a result of the penis before it.
Did you know that all men are ultimately related? I'm speaking scientifically here. The "Y" chromosome passes virtually unchanged from father to son. This is what makes us all connected and, ironically, what makes us all weaker than women on a biological level. The XX chromosome is stronger than the XY, because the XX is more deversified and "Y" in the XY stays virtually unchanged. On a biological level, variety is always stronger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
